Top-tier business school

Haha-- Bigwilly got tore into...chose your words carefully around here!

But then again, Harvard doesn't suffer from a credibility problem because of grade inflation---hahaha.


...forum just served its purpose for this afternoon:time wasting!
 
A top tier business school will open far more doors than a lower tier business school. Why that occurs can be argued until the cows come home, but the fact remains. Go to HBS, Stanford, Wharton, Columbia, or Kellogg and you will have a much easier time landing the job you want.
 
This one is still living?? I just gave up on this thread as I figured it would not die. All in all my original point was that the networking from going to a top 10 is in a sense more valuable than any difference in education from not going to a top 10. I did not mean to discount any top 10. I would love to some day go to Wharton or another fine B-school. Hopefully I will have the money and be in teh right location. By the way does Wharton offer PT or just FT.

Maybe when I go to Harvard or Wharton my whole argument will change... :) .
 
propanol, what are you up to these days? i actually did my undergrad (not gsb...have not gotten mba yet)



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Numi,

Did my undergrad in Europe (Oxford); worked a few years after that.

Am currently at the farm doing a MS in financial math. Took a few courses at GSB. Felt that MBA is awfully inadequate for today's cutting edge finance. The 600 series at GSB are far better.
 
Hey propanol -- if I catch some lucky breaks, maybe I'll have the opportunity to go back for GSB as well. From my personal experience, it would have been nice if more quantitative classes were offered on the undergrad level for econ (which was my major). A lot of the students going into finance after graduation were econ majors simply because there wasn't an undergrad finance major, but a lot of the econ material was quite theoretical and conventional, and I wouldn't consider most of the concepts to be "cutting edge" as you mentioned before. But maybe expecting otherwise at the undergrad level would be too much. That being said, I loved my overall experience there. It was definitely a work hard, play hard environment (exactly my cup of tea). Best of all, I met many bright and inspirational people while I was there, a good number of whom I'm fortunate enough to call my friends. It reminds me how ordinary the rest of the real world is, but makes me feel even more fortunate to have had the opportunity to study there.

Would it be OK if I e-mailed you sometime about your experience at the GSB? Alternatively, you can e-mail me at porcupines AT gmail DOT com if you don't want to give out your address. Thanks much.



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Is there a quality part time program other than NYU for finance? I am not talking about executive programs and I consider "quality" as having the ability to 'compete' with top 10 full time programs (even if it loses somewhat regularly in the hiring manager's eyes).
 
Danny Boy...take a gander
decent article: http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2005/0905/148.html
also, this one has a link to a slide show of some top part-time programs.
http://www.forbes.com/2005/08/16/best-business-schools-list-cz_05mba_land.html

I would say if your in nyc and you can get into Langone, that would have to be your choice unless your willing to relocate to another city (ie. Chicago).
I happen to be researching some options myself at the moment.
 
For those who attended b-school, was is fun? That will be a large part of my decision: do I take off two years of work and have some college fun while meeting great contacts or do I continue working and attend part time?
 
Danny Boy Wrote:
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> For those who attended b-school, was is fun? That
> will be a large part of my decision: do I take off
> two years of work and have some college fun while
> meeting great contacts or do I continue working
> and attend part time?


It was the among the best part of my life. Going back to school after having been dumbed down by corporate America for 6 years, having a sense of purpose there (as opposed to when I was in school at age 18), learning something new and camaraderie were some of factors that made it so. The only negative was the loan.
 
Danny Boy: You can read more about B-school and career issues here:
http://www.analystforum.com/phorums/read.php?11,437688

Both CFAAtlanta and I have some "buyer beware" stories to share there. Regarding your question about top quality Part-Time programs, the NYU Stern Langone program is ranked #1 (or has been ranked #1 several times).

As for whether B-school is fun, I certainly enjoyed it - but, everything in life has its price. Depending on the school, the tuition can be quite a financial drain (the Stern Full-time program costs upwards of $32K per year). Like CFAAtlanta, I found it refreshing to do something completely different and be around intelligent, hard-working people.

The benefit of Part-Time is that you can probably get your employer to pick up a significant part of the tab. The downside is that you don't get to participate in on-campus recruiting. Also, the networking aspect, especially for a career-switcher such as myself, would have been missing in a Full-Time program.
 
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