sniperssk wrote:
School name serves mainly the purpose to help HR separate your resume from the pile. After that, when you are called for interview, it's all about you. I don't think that someone would give you a higher salary just based on the name of your school. It's not that such places don't exist, but the question is would you like to work there. At the end of the day, people care about what you can do for them and you'll be rewarded if your present or future boss sees in you potential to help him. Of course, you cannot expect US schools to be as known abroad as in the US and you will always have people internationally who have not heard of this or that school. My opinion is that if at some company the recruiters haven't heard of your school and it is a top one, then it's not really worth it to work there as an MBA. If they care about hiring people with that degree, they would know the top programs.
Well, I’ve been working in GCC for almost four years and I can assure you that you can get very high salary based merely on the name of your school. One of our mangers is getting $230K a year (excluding the Bonus); he is good but more important he is MIT grads. Moreover, you may be surprised to know that some US schools from the second tier such as George Washington, John Hopkins, Michigan State are more recognized than some from top tier. Anyway, I'll list some information regarding what we call "International Schools" although many of these schools don't really look international...
-Yale is top notch here, only Harvard can beat Yale.
-Michigan & Georgetown are Big names; you are a Big Shot if you have your MBA from any of their schools.
-You are more likely to be known if you are from Cornell or Berkley than if you are from Wharton or Chicago.
-Tuck, Darden, Duke, Kellogg, USC, Carnegie Mellon are completely UNKNOWN!! Only few people, probably MBA fans might have a clue about them, although Duke has recently opened a Learning Center in Dubai and Both Northwestern & Carnegie Mellon have lunched their first undergrad branches in Qatar.
I just don’t find any justifications on how some less elite schools could build strong reputation outside the states while a lot of top ranked ones are still trying to…
Yahya