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Originally posted by Rudey
That is total horsecrap. An MBA is a bull degree. There is no substance to it. I took every difficult class (finance, accounting, statistics, and empirical modelling classes are the only really difficult ones available) an MBA student could take at Chicago as well as some classes at Columbia and Tuck while an undergrad. Most of them there are using it as a vacation. You work hard for 2-3 years and then come in and use that as a vacation. People make claims you learn something but study after study has shown otherwise. That is why a top 10 program is what counts. It's because you use it to name drop and to brag. You use it to get nifty little business cards from the school with your name on it for when recruiters come. You don't kiss up to anyone...that name on your resume opens up doors and from there you do the work.
And yes schools can be compared and most pale in comparison to the top schools. The rankings for MBAs don't change too rapidly and while undergrad rankings change it's pretty much set which schools are top 10 (Ivy+). While it isn't a definite that you're smarter if you go to a better school, it's definitely a higher probability that you are. And for MBAs while overall rankings don't change much, programs change even less - Kellogg is great for marketing, Stanford and HBS great for entrepreneurial type programs, and Chicago and Wharton great for finance type programs.
What is it that makes some podunk mba better than harvard business school?? Nothing. You learn little enough at HBS so at some podunk school you learn even less than that and are exposed to less talented people. Recruiters don't come to your school really and you end up with a worthless and expensive degree for nothing.
What do you disagree with here? Oh and just so you know there are girls in top MBA programs too so it isn't a sex isolated phenomenon.
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Okay, first of all, I didn't say it was a "sex isolated phenomenon." I said that girls GENERALLY get their MBA for a different reason than guys do, i.e. guys use the MBA as a networking tool, used for name-dropping, etc. Most girls get their MBA to have an advanced degree. Here is a link to an article addressing this.
http://www.careerjournal.com/special...-cjwomen1.html
What I disagree with is you saying not to bother getting an MBA from a school that isn't top-10 and you implying that a distance learning MBA is worthless. That is an ignorant thought process. And yes you are kissing up to people by saying, oh I went to such and such school, do this for me or give me this job. That's EXACTLY what that is.
Waving a degree from Harvard or Stanford in front of my face doesn't impress me one bit. Oh, so you were rich enough to afford to go there? Or you are now so deep in debt that you are going to have to work longer than I am to pay it off? Good for you. If a person from Harvard and a person from Joe Blow University walked in for the same interview, there is no guarantee that the Harvard grad is going to get the job.