I'll third the suggestion to get real world experience before going back. My wife got her MBA from UW. Most of the students, but not all, had real world experience coming in. Some didn't. When it came time to interviewing for internships and jobs, those that had real world experience had something substantive to talk about in the interviews and could tell stories from the real world, not just the classroom. Also, from what I saw, those with experienced got the 'better' jobs. By better, I mean the Ibanking (do those jobs even exist anymore?) and the ones that paid substantially more coming out of the gates and had more opportunites for growth. I don't really think it matters what area you work in, either. For example, my wife had a journalism degree and worked in PR before getting her MBA in finannce My $.02