Agreed. I have been referring to only CSEA audited numbers, hopefully that should be fair ground for analysis.

Omg! Tier 1, 2, 3 - Another bias without any rationale?!
When Lehman was about to declare bankruptcy and the fed chair and president of USA wanted consultants to solve the issue, they called Alvarez & Marsal - despite MBBs and other firms having experts.
They made the strategy, M&As and turnaround. So that says that some of the other (their 3+) and no tier firms are also doing incredible work and there is no rationale for tiers. Imagine the exit opportunities for a kid who works at Alvarez and Marshall now. Bahaha

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n=1 = anecdotal. McK also is known to do sketchy work in Saudi Arabia and China. EY M&A did MSFT + LinkedIn - those are all great projects and I am sure those consultants had incredible exits. We are not talking about edge cases here. I do agree with the exception of large megafunds and PE, exit ops could be largely similar.

Again, I would remind you that we are not devaluing what the Big 4 does - we are talking purely out of what a final year MBA student is likely to pick. My point is that they will likely pick tier 1 over tier 2 and tier 2 over tier 3. Barring a few exceptions, in the long term things will be pretty similar anyway.

Except comp - anything higher than manager, MBB outpay big 4 fast and by incredible margins. But then again, MBB tends to be up or out so not many people end up making it there.

I'd also let other consultants on the forum ENGRTOMBA2018 and jumsumtak to chime in.

Again, I would remind you that we are not devaluing what the Big 4 does - we are talking purely out of what a final year MBA student is likely to pick. My point is that they will likely pick tier 1 over tier 2 and tier 2 over tier 3. Barring a few exception, in the long term things will be pretty similar anyway.
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BTW the tier 1, 2, 3 is not my invention - pretty common all around - just like business school rankings, Vault, Management Consulted will have their own rankings
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Ok while I don’t agree with rankings, but recruiters will and I will see this.

https://www.vault.com/best-companies-to ... s-prestige
The ones you suggest in the tier system don’t reflect in this ranking now

Unless you irrationally want to suggest another system or ranking now.

But to cut you a break, one of my colleague moved from AlixPartners to BCG in a director and later partner role.

But I will ignore vault because the expert (first year international MBA with no American business experience) here has different views.

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Let me know when you find someone who rejects an MBB offer out of business school to go to EY

Also my tiers are my opinions. Just like you have opinions/perspectives on business school rankings. Problem?

And also, you’re totally right. International students, of course, have NO idea about American businesses. Spoken like a true global champion
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Let me chime in. I like how souvik101990 mentioned that MBB as the best brand out there will open up doors (especially for that initial resume filtering) at majority of the firms. Is that rational? Maybe not but every HR department out there would want to do least amount of work to filter candidates out and what better than just minimizing your work and just going for MBB brand. That being said, once you are in the industry for a few years (barring money as your sole motivator), MBB vs top consulting firms will give you equal exit opps post consulting. It will then come down to how hard and intelligently can you hustle!


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You keep deleting my post to sound smarter - I don’t disagree that MBBs have created a better brand and people will chose MBB over other consulting firms.
But having said that, the opinion that other consulting firms are not worth MBA students is biased and misleading. There are reasonable exit opportunities because recruiter are looking for “top consulting firm experience” and then there are some that are strictly asking for “MBB experience”

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The folks at unc who did not get MBB but got things like Accenture strategy or Deloitte are perfectly happy. I think this topic got swayed to a consulting prestige debate instead of the most important decision right now which is where to spend the next 2 years of your life. Don’t get caught up in name. When recruiting happens, you cast a wide net and if you land a great consulting role trust me you won’t really care where it is at the end of the day.

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I agree. As I mentioned in the OP, I am only looking to decide on a school that will help me maximize my employment chances in the industry.

Thanks woody93 for being the voice of reason!
Gauthamkailash - if you are absolutely sure that consulting is where you want to be (and be prepared to work very hard for it), UNC does sound like a better bet.
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