Thanks for your reply, bb! I'm curious if the consulting at Darden is primarily focused on strategic consulting, aiming for MBB. My interest lies more in the practical tech-related field, with the ultimate goal of pursuing a career in tech consulting.

Sorry, yes, Darden is MBB-focused. Frankly, all business schools love MBB’s and focus on them.

I’m not as familiar with tech consulting MBA roles. I know that Accenture has a huge tech arm but they don’t really recruit MBA folks. Most of it is developers and technical expertise rather than leadership and strategic.

I think Deloitte does some and I believe they actually pay better than McKenzie. And for consulting jobs, your school probably doesn’t matter as much. For example you can go to Harvard, Darden, or Jones and end up at McKenzie or equally you can also get weirded out during the interview process.

While the name alone does not help, going to school the places people into particular firms is very helpful. This creates a pipeline, a connection, a culture of interview prep and Keith Smith studying and consulting clubs. So I would say any consulting school, regardless if it’s strategic or tech focus would be helpful since the recruiting process is somewhat similar. I know some firms use behavioral interviews and others use of approaches or something else like that but ultimately if you have a larger size program, you will have hundreds of applicants pursuing consulting and that will give fertile ground for practice networking and strength in Numbers.