Suggest some schools for Consulting.

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I am an international candidate looking to apply for USA B Schools. excluding Harvard, Stanford.

Please suggest some good B Schools that i can look into for taking up Consulting as a Mba program and Career.

I am looking at Schools which attract the top Consulting Recruiters like Mckinsey, Boston Consultancy, Bain.

I only know of Wharton, Ross for MBA Consulting.

Why i am specific to Consulting, i have good experience handling projects at client location, dealing with client management, handling teams at both base and client, 80% of my work involved travel. So i believe those can be very strong points for me.

Specific to Consulting by that i meant i understand there are Schools reputed for Finance programs like Chicago, Columbia, NYU which attract mostly students, recruiters interested in Finance.
Yes Chicago, Col, Nyu also attract the three MBB but the schools are famed for MBA Finance program, in the similar way are there any Schools which offer good programs in Consulting.

I prefer warm climates as opposed to Freezing Poles.

I am looking to make more friends and acquaintances, really excited about this. Hope you feel the same. Thank you.

bschbound · Answer

Let me help you out..First of all, if you want to get anywhere on these forums, keep it short!

Your post is too long. I didn't read the whole thing but I will suggest some schools for consulting...The main ones are Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Kellogg, Chicago, MIT, Dartmouth, and Columbia. But, you could get into consulting at pretty much all the top 10 schools. Why are you not applying to Harvard/Stanford? Can't hurt to try; well, it does a little 'cause you have to write the essays and pay $250 application fee but still...

GoBruin · Answer

Well there are multiple ways to do this, I would not want to give you a list and in that case limit your search. If I were you I would do 2 things.

Visit M/B/B website, they will give you a list of schools they recruit for MBA's if a school doesn't have a dedicated MBA liaison or recruiter, chances are they will not recruit many if any from the school.

Number 2, I would go through the employment reports of each school and see what the consulting numbers are. Most schools will give you top-10 recruiters and most top schools will give you how many fulltime and how many interns were recruited that given year. (keep in mine that you should concider school size when factoring since Haas/Tuck are about 1/4 the size of HBS and CBS.

BlueRobin · Answer

Hey bsch thanks for your advice, i shortened my post to be more specific.

I opted out Harvard, Stanford because they are just too elite schools, too hard to get into and might be complicated to get along.

Thanks GoBruins for your suggestions, i didnt knew MBB actually posted the list of schools they visit, thats great. Reg the 2 point Yes i checked the individual schools recritment, and out of Wharton, Columbia they prefer Wharton as Columbia is more Finance Oriented.

Reg 3rd point Yes you are spot on, and thanks for telling that i didnt knew class sizes of Haas, Tuck are 1/4 of HBS, CBS. I feel such heavily crowded classes more like markets, where there is no proper attention between the teacher and student.

How about Ross, i "read" its better than Hass for Consulting ? , What is your opinion on it.

Also i heard great things about a career in Finance but i feel it would be foolish of me to spend so much hard earned money just following some mba program which everybody is running to, and ending up disappointed if i am not suited for it, i dont know maybe its the same about consulting but atleast i can make informed decisions. Thanks for your replies, they throw more light on my murky situation.

GoBruin · Answer

Haas is an odd situation, they pride themselves on having Consulting and finance and neither of their top 2 fields. So in that respect they probably have less members that end up in consulting than ross, but that being said, Haas has a higher concentration of Tech/Entreprenuals who weren't planning on going into consulting in the first place. You have small number of recruits but also small number of applicants.

MaxwellRoper · Answer

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dibblebun · Answer

I think Kellogg send more hires to McKinsey than any other school. Cannot remember where I heard that.

Suggest some schools for Consulting.

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