I just went straight through as a full time MBA student for a year at Canisius… finished my BS in finance last december and have my last MBA final tomorrow night. Being in the evening program and seeing the people drained from work all day come in dead and have to sit through 3 hours of class really made me feel like I made the right decision. I found that a lot of my classmates that were balancing school and work really ended up half assing their performance at both. Personally, even taking 5-6 classes a semester, not having a job to compete for my time really helped, but naturally not everyone is in the financial situation to be able to do that. I’m finding a lot of the high-end entry and slightly above entry-level job opportunities in finance being opened to me, though i haven’t signed with one officially, because the firms are tired of losing their best performers after 2-3 years when they go back to school.