secondtime wrote:
thmgoodw wrote:
To be honest, I think it depends on one's career aspirations. As much as I love Kelley, if I knew I wanted to work for M/B/B in consulting or work for one of the top i-banks, I would pick Ross/Fuqua/Stern over a full-ride at Kelley in a heart beat. Now, if one wanted to go into marketing, IMHO a person would be an idiot to turn down that full ride.
True, you might not be able to break in easily to the "top three" consulting firms from Kelley. But my two cents is there are definitely students at Kelley who are making a go of it in both consulting and investment banking. And if you do go down one of those paths, when you get your job you'll still be working alongside MBAs from the MBA programs that were mentioned who also didn't break into those firms. Here is a listing of companies that recently hired Kelley MBAs
https://kelley.iu.edu/GCS/Recruiting/Top ... 20451.htmlCertainly. On my visit to Kelley I chatted with several who were going into consulting. It is all about odds and averages. I went to law school at Indiana and if you wanted to work for the large law firms paying top dollar, then you pretty much had to be in the top 10% of the graduating class. If you went to Northwestern you probably had to be in the top 40-50%. If you went to Harvard you pretty much just needed a diploma. IMHO, it is similar for those looking to get into ibanking/consulting.
I'm certainly not discounting those who want to go into i-banking or consulting from IU. I just think that if one had a chance to go to the schools with deep connections at tons of those top firms, one should usually play the odds. That is especially true in consulting/ibanking as with generally higher salaries than other career paths the difference in education costs will be less of a factor. For career switchers I think it is likely even more important to get those added connections, whereas if you were previously an i-banker, have a 750 GMAT perhaps and want to stay in i-banking, it is probably less of a concern.
If one wants to work in industry, whether that is corp fin or marketing, the playing field opens up considerably.