Owen vs Tepper (same amount of $$)

What that tells me is that the teaching methods are probably quite different in Tepper vs. Owne and warrants a bit more research with current students or adcom. I am not that familiar with either school, unfortunately but having browsed the list of classes and electives, I find it hard to believe that ALL classes would have that many people. There are simply not enough people to fill each class with 50-70 of them. I think more research is warranted.

As to your point, I understand the concern with large classes - I have had a chance to be a part of smaller ones and larger ones. My unhappiness with larger class would be ability to have a discussion or participate in a case or in general get personal attention. This is something I would want to research with the current students. It also feels more like the undergrad where you absorb and listen and are generally ignored which is not the feel you want paying $50K/year.

On the flip side, I would say that the class environment and feel really depend on the professor and how they structure a class. As one downside of small classes, I had know-it-alls dominate and really annoy the hell out of me by chatting with the teacher and getting warm and fuzzy, and really not able to shut up. The professor should have shut them down but since it was a small class, they did not. The bottom line is I don't think it is the end of the world to take accounting or micro-economics or marketing & sales class in a large setting - that's how the big schools with very strong professors do it, esp if you have a really strong professor who does not want to teach 4 or 5 separate SAME classes every single week. Also with smaller class size electives, getting a GOOD class becomes more challenging. That's my defense for larger class size BUT only if the professor is worth it. That's another big question.

Interesting fact/detail I found is that both schools have a fairly low men to women ratio - only 25-28% vs. 35%+ in many of the other programs.... kind of odd that way.

thanks for the votes I went with tepper

Cool!!! Congrats and thank you for posting. You are leaving us hanging though a bit - any reason or anything in particular that made you choose Tepper?


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