Re: Awein MBA
a couple of things
1) where you get your MBA from matters..
2) with trend of focus areas in MBAs you may see diff types of ppl, generally easy to tell strat/mkt/fin people from ops mgmt/risk mgmt folks, as it attracts diff type of people who go into diff types of roles, so you may actually see variance in communication skills as well.
3) the top 10 thing has to be factored on a few other things
a-.rankings vary by field, e.g. Northwestern is ranked 1 in Marketing but is not ranked highly in Finance. secondly..there are some excellent schools in top 20 or even 30 or even 40 but have a program or 2 that is in top 10 or top 20.
b- in some cases a school that is not ranked in top 20 overall may have a program or two that are ranked as such. Thunderbird runs circles around many better known unis when it comes to international business, so an avg person may not know the rep or quality of a program but just look at overall MBA rankings, people in the industry know which programs are good and which are so so.
c-many of these schools have extremely strong business ties locally, schools like depaul, cincinnati, florida, kansas, drexel, villanova, temple, st johns, penn state, ohio state, georgetown, georgiatech, pepperdine, tulane, baylor, houston, U of san fan, I dont think any of these are in top 20 MBA programs but they are very strongly ingrained into regional business community.
while a general person not in the industry will not know anything about these unis, fact is that grads of these schools form a great part of the business workforce in the regions. their graduates may or may not get the networking strength of HBS, and u may not see them as often as CEOs of fortune 500, but they do hold senior positions in major companies.
its a whole diff issue than fake degrees or diploma mills or schools that are not aacsb accredited, or schools that are on the bottom rung
aacsb which is the accredition body for business schools has 480+ accredited graduate degree programs worldwide. now do we think that #40, 50, or even top 100 is a bad school? considering that there are 4200 degree granting institutions in US alone? of which just around 300 are accredited?