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Hi everyone,
I would really appreciate some honest guidance regarding my MBA decision, as I need to finalize it soon for visa-related timelines.
I currently have two offers:
Would love to hear opinions from people who know these schools well or have faced similar decisions:
I would really appreciate some honest guidance regarding my MBA decision, as I need to finalize it soon for visa-related timelines.
I currently have two offers:
- Boston University Questrom School of Business
- Scholarship: $45,000 (for second year)
- Strong reputation in business, consulting, and overall MBA brand value
- Located in Boston with good industry exposure and networking opportunities
- Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
- Scholarship: $60,000 per year (~$120,000 total, around 80% of tuition covered)
- Strong healthcare, AI, analytics, and innovation ecosystem
- Opportunity to explore intersections of AI, healthcare, and entrepreneurship
- Currently working as a Senior Project Manager in an AI company
- Prior experience in semiconductors at Texas Instruments
- Research-oriented background with published papers and patents
- Long-term interest in AI, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and technology-driven ventures
- Product strategy / AI-driven business roles
- Entrepreneurship/startups
- Consulting or innovation-focused leadership roles
- Potentially building ventures in AI and sustainability sectors
Would love to hear opinions from people who know these schools well or have faced similar decisions:
- Which option would you personally choose and why?
- Does Questrom’s MBA brand/network justify the higher cost?
- How is Carey perceived in the market outside healthcare?
- Which school would be stronger for AI + entrepreneurship + long-term leadership opportunities?
12 May 2026, 10:55
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Congratulations on your admits! PS1rocks!
John Hopkins is a quite small program with about 60 students per year. It’s a very surprising situation with the undergraduate being so highly popular and ranking within top five nationally and then the Business school not really attracting the same level of applicants.
Usually John Hopkins is driven by the medical school and so if you are thinking of going into medical field that’s the program you would benefit from the most. Everyone holds a lot of respect for the medical school and so by extension in any medical field you would get that brand recognition right away.
Does it make Carey the wrong school for others? Not necessarily - if you’re planning to start something on your own after Business school, that’s not gonna be possible if you have a large loan to repay.
Questrom - about double the size and a pretty cool campus downtown Boston just across the river from MIT and Harvard. But I’m not sure that the view is worth $100,000 ... what you would be paying for is a bigger class size with more classmates with more diversity and greater alumni network that you can leverage for your job search. At the same time, I think because you’re recruiting into nontraditional field and entrepreneurial setting, a lot of your recruiting will have to happen off campus on your own anyway. It’s not like you are significantly disadvantaged. Just expect that at Johns Hopkins you will be a small fish.
PS. Keep your expectations low for both schools and honestly I recommend keeping expectations low for any program - I’ve seen people disappointed with Harvard and Stanford. This is not because those are bad programs, they’re not it’s because people have very high expectations.
John Hopkins is a quite small program with about 60 students per year. It’s a very surprising situation with the undergraduate being so highly popular and ranking within top five nationally and then the Business school not really attracting the same level of applicants.
Usually John Hopkins is driven by the medical school and so if you are thinking of going into medical field that’s the program you would benefit from the most. Everyone holds a lot of respect for the medical school and so by extension in any medical field you would get that brand recognition right away.
Does it make Carey the wrong school for others? Not necessarily - if you’re planning to start something on your own after Business school, that’s not gonna be possible if you have a large loan to repay.
Questrom - about double the size and a pretty cool campus downtown Boston just across the river from MIT and Harvard. But I’m not sure that the view is worth $100,000 ... what you would be paying for is a bigger class size with more classmates with more diversity and greater alumni network that you can leverage for your job search. At the same time, I think because you’re recruiting into nontraditional field and entrepreneurial setting, a lot of your recruiting will have to happen off campus on your own anyway. It’s not like you are significantly disadvantaged. Just expect that at Johns Hopkins you will be a small fish.
PS. Keep your expectations low for both schools and honestly I recommend keeping expectations low for any program - I’ve seen people disappointed with Harvard and Stanford. This is not because those are bad programs, they’re not it’s because people have very high expectations.
