<prompt> Human: I am currently a sophomore in college. The point of this post is to help me prepare for my future a bit. I am an IT and Finance major and because both of my parents are professors at the school Im at so I get free tuition. I found out that I also get grad schools tuition paid for if I go right after I graduate. From some people, I have heard that an MBA is a lot more useful if you have some work experience so you can apply it to what your learning. If I got experience after college instead of getting my MBA I would lose the free tuition but gain the experience. My question then is if its more worth it to get experience then get the MBA later in life or get the MBA right after college and get it for free?Edit:I have been reading the comments and I am getting a lot of different answers. I am at Marquette U. and it has a decent business school with a really high job placement rate for IT majors. To answer some questions, my parents probably would support me through. Next year I will be studying abroad in Antwerp, Belgium for a year. This will hopefully quench my travel needs and since its free tuition I thought why not. The marquette master program would probably cost about 150,000 so that would be a huge savings.  <response>: An MBA is worthless if you dont have at least 3 years of work experience. 