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Business Week MBA Rankings Question
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05 Dec 2011, 07:59
I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section, but I don't know exactly where this fits.
In the Business Week Part-time ranks, I see an item that says "Organizations that send the most participants to the part-time MBA program". I look at some of the schools out there, like Kellogg, Georgetown, and Carnegie Mellon.
At Kellogg, 961 students are in the PT program. Their top five organizatons that send students are GE - 7, Goldman Sachs -6, US Navy -5, Morningstar -5, and Caterpillar - 5. that's a total of 28 students out of 961 (2.9%), so assuming this is right, every other company that is represented has no more than 4 people each. I would find that classes here would be very engaging with many folks from many viewpoints and walks of life.
At Carnegie Mellon, there are 201 students in PT, Top 5 companies represented are BNY Mellon -22, University employees with 21, EQT with 16, Medrad with 15, and Westinghouse with 13 for a total of 87, or 43.2% of all students come from the same five companies.
At Georgetown, there are 372 in the PT program, top 5 companies represented are the Feds with 94, Lockheed Martin with 36, Booz with 26, University employees with 25, and Fannie Mae with 19 which total 200 students or 53.7% of the students come from the same five companies.
My question here is this. Does it do any good to have a high proportion, if not most students come from the same five to ten companies, at many business schools? If anything I would think that at Georgetown, many of the rejected students may be guys at Lockheed and Booz and other large govt contractors, since it's certainly plausible that they could fill the entire school with guys from here if they wanted to, but that wouldn't be good for class discussions. Same with CMU/Tepper because I could def. see them fill their entire class with guys from Mellon, EQT, Medrad, and Heinz if they wanted to.
The other question I have is that a high proportion of students at a number of schools, including G-Town and Tepper were employees of the University. Is this not uncommon that one out of 10 guys are from the University at many programs?