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05 May 2023, 14:04
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Dear folks, could you provide feedback on below 2 admits:
1- University of Southern California (Marshall Business School) IBEAR MBA program (1 year) - total tuition of USD 130K
2- University of Maryland (Smith Business School) - 2 year MBA - total tuition of USD 40K after scholarship & assistantship of USD 80K
Profile: South asian, corporate banker with around 10 year workex.
1- University of Southern California (Marshall Business School) IBEAR MBA program (1 year) - total tuition of USD 130K
2- University of Maryland (Smith Business School) - 2 year MBA - total tuition of USD 40K after scholarship & assistantship of USD 80K
Profile: South asian, corporate banker with around 10 year workex.
05 May 2023, 14:28
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Hi. Congratulations on your admits!
These are two pretty different programs. What are your plans after graduating? Would you be going back to your home country or work in the US for a while?
Do you have strong brands on your résumé? Brands that are recognizable in the United States?
Are you planning to change your industries? Or staying in banking?
Here’s the parts I like and don’t like 😇
Like:
1. Smith has a good price with the scholarship and fellowship and a summer internship
Don’t like
1. Smith has a pretty weak brand in recruiting.
2. IBEAR price and size. It’s a pretty small program. It’s also a purely international program so you are missing on exposure to the US students
3. Recurring will likely be pretty tough after both programs. Because business schools tend to place traditionally folks with about five or six years of work experience into middle management roles and your tenure plus experience level makes you a bit of a qualified for traditional MBA jobs. This will mean that pretty much any job will have to come through networking 🥴.
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These are two pretty different programs. What are your plans after graduating? Would you be going back to your home country or work in the US for a while?
Do you have strong brands on your résumé? Brands that are recognizable in the United States?
Are you planning to change your industries? Or staying in banking?
Here’s the parts I like and don’t like 😇
Like:
1. Smith has a good price with the scholarship and fellowship and a summer internship
Don’t like
1. Smith has a pretty weak brand in recruiting.
2. IBEAR price and size. It’s a pretty small program. It’s also a purely international program so you are missing on exposure to the US students
3. Recurring will likely be pretty tough after both programs. Because business schools tend to place traditionally folks with about five or six years of work experience into middle management roles and your tenure plus experience level makes you a bit of a qualified for traditional MBA jobs. This will mean that pretty much any job will have to come through networking 🥴.
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05 May 2023, 14:33
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Thanks bb for the feedback.
I’d definitely like to work in the US after MBA. I’m open to banking as well as financial services industry in general.
I do have one strong brand on my resume (HSBC).
The differential in cost is quite huge so I’m wondering if brand equity of USC justifies this much extra cost.
The fact this ibear program is 1-year (without internship) will make recruiting challenging though. I do believe smith will probably give me a better shot at recruitment (at the cost of one extra year of studies).
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I’d definitely like to work in the US after MBA. I’m open to banking as well as financial services industry in general.
I do have one strong brand on my resume (HSBC).
The differential in cost is quite huge so I’m wondering if brand equity of USC justifies this much extra cost.
The fact this ibear program is 1-year (without internship) will make recruiting challenging though. I do believe smith will probably give me a better shot at recruitment (at the cost of one extra year of studies).
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