Socialguy wrote:
Need to choose, as someone looking for social impact jobs, Duke Fuqua or Yale SOM? Duke is a lot cheaper, has better schedule, and seems like it has better ratings. On the other hand, Yale is Yale, and also seems like it focuses on social impact. But schedule is much worse, and would require a 4hr train ride each way, every other weekend. Thoughts?
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Looking at it very pragmatically and casting brand clout apart, Fuqua program has 215 students and Yale has 77.
You could say that Yale is more exclusive but that's not how EMBA's work - the program size always trumps with EMBA since that is your network and your group.
Having said that it probably does not make a lot of sense to network and be around folks who do not share your future goals and passion. Social-impact jobs - how would you characterize that? Is that Non Profit or is that working at BoA but focusing on impact investing?
If non-profit, at Fuqua, very few are from the non profit background while Yale has 20%+ from the non-profit groups or about 15 people I guess. Fuqua has only 2 perhaps from the non-profit sector and 10 from Gov.
So overall, I would say Fuqua trumps Yale in general. At the same time, for non-profit, Yale is better.
At the same time, not knowing if you want to be social impact in finance, marketing, non-profit, palm-reading, or social-media, it is hard to tell more with certainty