Hi. Welcome to GMAT Club and congrats on your admit!
I think for a substantial decision, it warrants doing more research, but it’s really up to you.
I would say that the way rankings work and one of the reasons why we have created GMAT Club’s own MBA Rankings is that data reporting is not very transparent. By nature of it, it’s incomplete and it’s not very clearly stated nor accounted in the rankings. For example, when the school reports salary figures as well as employment statistics, it is not for 100% of all students or graduates. It is only for the number of people who respond to the survey that was sent out by either the school or a third party ranking organization. As you can imagine with every survey, not everyone will fill it out. Some people don’t see the email others lose it some people forget. Also if you are one of the people who hasn’t gotten a job yet and you get one of these emails, chances are you may not submit the report either. Finally, the graduates have no benefit from making the school look bad… So the more inclined to paint a rosier picture. After all, if someone asked you about your family, would you say that your parents really under performed while raising you? Would you read them as average or would you have a tendency to give them the highest possible score? Business school is kind of like family. Therefore the rankings are not very impartial.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmat-club-mb ... 57142.htmlAgain, this isn’t an intentional conspiracy to try to deceive anyone, it’s just how reporting works and why it’s painting a one-sided picture. Which is why you have to take the date it with a grain of salt and recognize that it’s not a guarantee of any kind of outcome. At the same time and take it on a grand scale of many business schools having the same level of imperfect reporting, you could make it work for a ranking. We took a different approach for GMAT Club business school rankings and while we only did it for US schools, mostly because international schools do not share anywhere close to the amount of data that US business school share, we took into consideration the entirety of the student body and tried to correct some of these reporting imperfections.
I would definitely connect with a few more alarms and current students to get a better sense about the recruiting help you receive and also complexity of getting a job after graduation. I can see for a country such as Korea, it can be very challenging to get a job without the language skills. I know that is definitely the case for mini MBA programs in China and Hong Kong. It’s hard to get a job unless you speak the local language. It’s also true for programs in France and Italy.
I would recommend getting a good picture about chances of getting a job in Korea, requirements that exist there and options for getting a job outside of Korea.
Good luck!
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