Masters in Management Science & Engineering !!!!

Hi All -
I'm an accountant and thinking of applying for Masters in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University, which is a 1 year program.
I have done my best to do research on this and figure out what awaits for me after graduation.
The alumni seems to be working in a very diversified areas of business and I cant really point to one.
However, I'm assuming that it helps because its a Masters from Stanford!!!.
Can anyone shine some light on this and help me out.... appreciate your help and input in advance.

The media have been harping for decades

About how expensive it is, and that a degree won't get you a job.
They always focus on a private and somewhat prestigious university and then look at the kids who just graduated who can't find a job.
Also, these articles always come out around graduation time, because it makes good copy. Next fall, at the height of college (and graduate school) admission season, the LA Times will publish an article on how competitive college admissions are, and how Joey Podunkin, who has a 4.02 GPA since he was 14 and has SAT's in the 20,000 range, was denied admission to UCLA, Stanford, and USC

I'm not an American

But my impression of American's grasp of reality is, let's just say, not good. Maybe it's the cultural difference, maybe it's something else. But I find Americans have a tendency to stubbornly refuse to look at reality and believe and only believe in the own little world existed in their own heads. A fellow PhD student once told me that he wanted to be a professor at this or that university, he is in a far from stellar state school with no publication so far, and he talked as if he could get a offer of tenure-track position right after graduation. I didn't know what to say to him at that time, so I just nodded

First of all....

I have enormous respect for Duke and Stanford and Coach K and Mike Montgomery. But a huge part of their graduating players is the fact that the school does not allow them to recruit players that aren't capable of handling the academic load. If other school held their ground when admiting athletes then graduating athletes wouldn't be an issue. Leaving the responsibilty of graduating players to the coach who is making $500K a year to win games is a joke. And don't for one second think that every single administrator at Georgia didn't know exactly what Harrick Jr.'s class was about. Coaches don't get to just decide to teach a class to only 3 basketball players and then make up the curricculum and then give credit