Hjort,
We have all benefited from your vast knowledge of MBA programs in the US, Europe, and Canada and I thank you for your services. I would like to know whether you have heard of MIT's MS in Engineering and Management (SDM) program?
The program is jointly offered by the Sloan School of Management and the School of Engineering. It's a 24 month program that involves distance learning, one semester in residency, and several one week trips to the class during the semesters. [https://sdm.mit.edu]
I have the following questions:
1. Have you heard of this program at all. Supposedly its a 10 year old program at MIT.
2. How is the program viewed in the Business community?
3. Is the degree viewed similar to an MBA degree?
4. Apart from the MIT name, is there any benefit the program provides?
Any other thoughts?
I also invite other gmatclubbers to comment if they have any knowledge on the program.
I am attaching SDMs Employment report 04-05 that contains some information on the salary earned by the graduates of the program. I wasn't very impressed compared to the employment reports of top MBA programs but this may be partly because the sample size in SDM is small (35-50 students) compared to the top MBA programs.
P.S. I am posting the same question to Scott and Paul.
Thanks
spiderman