Edit: See Wharton class stats, shows a mean work experience of 5 years.
https://mba.wharton.upenn.edu/class-profile/
MIT/Harvard/Stanford show similar:
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/mba/admissions/class-2020-profile
https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/class-profile/Pages/defau...
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/programs/mba/admission/class-pr...
I worked with an MBA who couldn't seem to iron his shirts (or just didn't) for a while. Slowly his job duties were shifted to me... the guy he was supposedly help manage after he proved he couldn't figure out scheduling a 24/7 schedule.
He clearly had no experience beyond school and some internships.
Like this guy couldn't manage a taco bell... maybe that should be the barrier to entry, to get into class you have to manage a taco bell for a time....
Funny enough, many years ago I had a very aggressive candidate for a mid-level technical development manager position who was insistent that his newly minted, no computer experience required, MSCE certificate or some such plus his handful of years managing a Pizza Hut qualified him for the job, because "a good manager can manage anything". I disagreed he was right for the job.
The first 6 months of my “real” career job in tech I learned almost as much as the first 2 years of college. I couldn’t imagine having a masters especially an MBA without having worked professionally, internships aside. I’m excluding the medical professions where the minimum to employment is a masters/doctorate. Even non-doctors have a lot of clinical/hospital experience before/during a masters.
I’m about to start looking at Masters or MBA programs in my area. I’ll have almost 10 years of experience by then and happy I didn’t do it straight after school.