<prompt> Human: About me: 24 years old went to devry, graduated with a 3.2 in EET working as a field service engineer for a little under a year, making 42,000 currently with a 600 dollar a month car allowance, 400 dollar a month on call stipend. Non exempt. Due for my first raise in June along with a bonus. job offers a great work life balance but I eventually see myself getting boredFinances: 30,000 in school loans - average 5.9 currently trying to refinance for a lower rate 18,670 car loan - 1.45 No credit debt. - working extremely hard to pay down loansI want to get my MBA to increase my earning power. My company will reimburse around 6000 a year. I plan on doing an online program so I can still work while going to school.Does going to a highly prestigious school for an MBA still hold true as far as the job offers you will receive upon graduation? The reason I ask is that the schools cost around 100,000 where I could go to a lesser school and pay half that. How much is too much when investing in ones self?Also on a side note I have been looking into Lehigh university for there MBA-E program. Does anyone have any experience with this university or this particular program?  <response>: A lot of the online MBA programs are not taken seriously by employers. You should do some research on the prestige of the program before picking it. A low-prestige MBA will not be nearly as good for your career as a high-prestige MBA.As for deciding how much to spend, that is a tough one. I know a lot of people with MBAs, and about half of them think it wasnt worth the money. If you dont know for sure that getting an MBA will increase your earning power in your field, you should probably hold off on it for now. At some point in the future, it might become a good idea. 