Grad school isn’t right for everyone, but it does have its benefits. Take a look at 5 Good Reasons to Go Graduate and Get an MBA. See if any of them are suitable for your own set of personal, educational, and professional goals.

1. Show me the money: As Cuba Gooding, Jr. said in Jerry McGuire, “Show me the money!” Generally, MBA graduates are more marketable to companies for managerial positions. Managerial positions generally pay more in salary than personnel positions. And since many more companies today are making an MBA a condition of employment, earning your MBA may actually mean that you will “see more money.”

2. Professional growth and development: Many students enter an MBA program after having been in the workforce for some time. This means that they have gained real-world experience after receiving their bachelor’s degree. Going back to graduate school may simply be a personal or professional goal that you have set for yourself. By combining your real-world work experience with the advanced skills and training that graduate school can offer you, it can help you grow both personally and professionally.

3. Become a Specialist – Many graduate schools allow you to choose a specialty when you earn your MBA. This allows you to further advance your general business skills while becoming an expert in a particular field. For example, you may currently work in the marketing department of your company as a marketing assistant. However, you aspire to become a marketing manager for one of your company’s divisions and one of the requirements for marketing managers for this particular company is that they must have their MBA. You can go back to graduate school and earn your MBA with a special concentration in marketing. Even if he doesn’t get you a marketing management position at your current company, you may well get one at another company.

4. Opens doors of opportunity: Earning an MBA degree can open doors of opportunity that might not have opened without one. The numbers don’t lie, and the numbers show that MBA graduates have a greater chance of gaining access to the position that was out of reach prior to earning their degree. You too can land your dream job by going to graduate school and earning your MBA.

5. Build a network: Sometimes being successful in business and just in life in general is about who you know versus what you know. In graduate school you are introduced to all kinds of people from different walks of life. Your peers and teachers are excellent resources for you in the business world. Graduate school allows you to create your own supportive framework and contact system to build strong business relationships.

While these are 5 great reasons to attend graduate school, you may have reasons of your own that are not listed here. Take out a sheet of paper and make a list of the reasons you think you want to go to graduate school and how getting your MBA can benefit you. Make an old pros and cons list and see which side has more reasons, pros or cons. Chances are, you will probably find more positive reasons for getting your MBA degree than reasons for not attending graduate school.