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Location: United States (MO)
Concentration: Nonprofit, General Management
Schools: Michigan (Ross) - Class of 2015
GPA: 3.22
WE:Management Consulting (Non-Profit and Government)
Re: Babson MBA or Kelley MBA?
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13 Jan 2011, 14:05
I would choose Babson.
1) Scholarship money
2) You want to go there
3) Great brand in entrepreneurship
It seems like you're out-thinking yourself here because you might want to work corporate for a little bit before returning home. I'm not going to sit here and say all corporate jobs suck, but I don't think some grand experience is awaiting you in a corporate middle-management job for random company X. And the difference between Babson and Kelley in acquiring one of those jobs, if there even is one, isn't significant enough to sway where you go to school.
I live/work in the midwest, and I can tell you that to the lay businessman here in Kansas City, an Indiana MBA would be seen on par with a Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, or Nebraska MBA. Probably the only place in the country anyone would associate Indiana with any kind of significant brand value is the state of Indiana.