I have not attended either of these programs but frankly any other executive MBA program. I would start reaching out to the current students to help you with the decision. This will give you your first opportunity to network and potentially connect you with some awesome people in the Ops management. It’ll also give you a taste of what networking will be like over the years. This should be a pretty straightforward and safe informational interview exercise. I think it will also be enjoyable and will provide you the number to need to meet a variety of people. I would look at It as an awesome opportunity esp now that you have time And not burdened by classes or applications or some thing else.
As finance man mentioned, EMBA programs Usually do not include recruiting as a component of the program. While Kellogg does invite all of the part-time and executive students for their recruiting events, and does not limit participation like some other schools such as Haas I think, the value in you attending these events is probably not that meaningful. Most of the positions will be targeting people in their late 20s in the early 30s with limited experience compared to your background.
Kellogg does have a pretty good grip on the executive education. They have partnerships with Canadian, UK, Hong Kong, and a variety of other business schools. That’s a pretty massive machine With a strong global reach. Is that of value to you?
Your biggest source of networking and opportunities will be a classmates and in particular your cohort. The tricky part with tapping general MBA or especially undergrad alumni network, is that by the time they are in a comparable or decision-maker shoes, it’s probably been 20 years since they graduated.
I would also consider the location since these programs tend to appeal to people regionally and folks tend to stay in the same area so my guess would be Kellogg would have more executive alarms in the Midwest and Wharton on the east coast.
PS. Wharton is one of the top three and definitely has the feel of that in terms of selectivity and brand. And they also have a bigger program and that is valuable.
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