Question for youz guys/gals who got their Masters in business/accounting/finance

[digimon7068]

still living in the burgh post bobby mo?

left about 10 years ago...smaller town...couple hours north of state college...still love the 'burgh, though and visit there quite often.

 

[samoth]

We need to know PT or FT. This makes a difference.

Ivy prestige is more UG-oriented. Nobody takes Cornell over Sloan.

We need to know work exp. Buldge bracket IB? MBB? If no, then cross off most top programs.

Work exp vs. GMAT: this varies from school to school, program to program. You need to find your targets and focus on the type of people they admit.

Buy the fucking USNWR. If you (or your company) are dropping six figures on a fucking program you're devoting a chunk of your fucking life to, you can pay twenty fucking dollars. Seriously, your comments about this just shout "flame". Rankings matter. Period.

Best bet is to find a bschool board or rankings/admit site to see where you stand. Honestly, if you can't get T20, I would highly recommend reconsidering the opportunity cost of such a diluted degree, even at full ride (as I'm doing myself...)

Keep us informed as to your progress.

 

[calveless wonder]

We need to know PT or FT. This makes a difference.

Ivy prestige is more UG-oriented. Nobody takes Cornell over Sloan.

We need to know work exp. Buldge bracket IB? MBB? If no, then cross off most top programs.

Work exp vs. GMAT: this varies from school to school, program to program. You need to find your targets and focus on the type of people they admit.

Buy the fucking USNWR. If you (or your company) are dropping six figures on a fucking program you're devoting a chunk of your fucking life to, you can pay twenty fucking dollars. Seriously, your comments about this just shout "flame". Rankings matter. Period.

Best bet is to find a bschool board or rankings/admit site to see where you stand. Honestly, if you can't get T20, I would highly recommend reconsidering the opportunity cost of such a diluted degree, even at full ride (as I'm doing myself...)

Keep us informed as to your progress.

lol @ the notion that not getting into a top 20 MBA program is a waste of time.

I love ya bro and i appreciate the input, but sometimes you're such a rankings whore with schools, its a little ridiculous. Most of the people who are so wrapped up into that are the ones who completely bomb their job interviews and have zero interpersonal skills i often find.

First of all, at the end of the day, i'll most likely be an entrepreneur when all is said and done. an MBA is just one more credential/source of knowledge that will allow me to do what I ultimately want to do. Not only a good source of networking, but a solid background if i ever wanted to acquire VC funding.

The notion that recruiters or interviewers will start microanalyzing resumes based SOLELY on who went to a marginally better grad school than another is absurd. At the end of the day, people hire people, not resumes. Recruiters aren't as narrowly scoped as *you* are. Maybe the top couple of firms in a certain industry, or maybe in your field, science related...it IS a big deal. But business is a totally different beast.

You make it sound like a science. It's not. there's certain parameters obviously, but in most cases beyond the norm, it's subjective. The idea you have to fit this "mold" is laughable.

 

[-SD-]

"Dude, wheres my B-school"

 

[mrplunkey]

I'd say any top 50 B school would work. But name recognition does drop off pretty fast after a handful of ivy league schools.

 

[iggy]

cw, how many degrees do you have?

what ideal job do you want to get after you earn your masters?

 

[-SD-]

cw, how many degrees do you have?

what ideal job do you want to get after you earn your masters?

he wants to be self employed, not a "job"

 

[digimon7068]

lol @ the notion that not getting into a top 20 MBA program is a waste of time.

like i indicated above...i doubled my income and received a $10,000 signing bonus (in 1996) from my new employer within 14 days of finishing my masters degree in taxation from robert morris university (robert morris college at the time)...and few people outside of pittsburgh have ever heard of robert morris...i thought it was pretty fucking sweet!

 

[calveless wonder]

like i indicated above...i doubled my income and received a $10,000 signing bonus (in 1996) from my new employer within 14 days of finishing my masters degree in taxation from robert morris university (robert morris college at the time)...and few people outside of pittsburgh have ever heard of robert morris...i thought it was pretty fucking sweet!

exactly.

like i said, i love samoth, but he's one of those dudes more obsessed with prestige and program rankings than the actual people doing the hiring are.

It certainly applies in specific situations (i.e. trying to work for Goldman sachs), but there are plenty of companies out there that look at the entire picture, especially in business.

 

[calveless wonder]

he wants to be self employed, not a "job"

I mean, eventually.

Having my MBA would allow me to get a high enough paying gig that I can just put money back for 3-4 years to invest in whatever company i'm going to run. Good example of someone who did that on this board; Nef.

Something like 75-80% of successful businesses are started with personal funds. Very few acquire venture capital and the ones that do have a tremendous amount of pressure to go public within 3-5 years. i've always had great business plans but lacked the necessary financing to do them.

I"m actually in that situation right now.


truthfully, if i don't land in one of the elite schools i'm targeting, i'll probably just finish my MBA at U of Florida. I can do their 1 year program (because i have so much work experience), and it's the same as doing the normal 2 year. It's still a top 30 grad b-school overall and top 20 in the specialty area i'm looking at (marketing)