UMich Business Economics & 选校纠结求助~~[follow up~决定从了berkeley的OM专业~]

jennylovebi

这个项目貌似是商学院底下的经济专业~~跟经济系很多一起上课~~~申请以来得到各位CDer很多帮助~~~~但是我实在是不会写什么申请经验之类~~~无以回报CD~~所以如果有关于申请的问题欢迎交流~~~

另外我还想求助各位大侠一下~~我目前在Haas OM的WL上， 还蛮有机会进， 但是这两所学校 实在是很难选啊。。。我把我觉得的pro 和con 写在这里， 各位牛牛们能不能帮我提提建议啊？ 多谢多谢！！

Haas pro: 1. 天气 （我是很怕冷的人所以这一条占很大比重。。 = =）2. 名气
con: 1. 我有点担忧会不会太偏理工 2. 专业排名似乎不是很高 （但是umich的我根本找不到排名。。） 但可能是因为项目很新 3. 毕业placement不知道 因为还没有人毕业。。= =

Ross pro: 1. 做的比较empirical 我觉得可能更擅长 2. 偏东北 （虽然不是很偏）3.比较稳定 haas就三个学生 这个项目每年固定两个~placement都还可以~~什么长江商学院~brattle group~HEC paris之类 4. 只用教一学期的课
con:1. 太冷 2. 出来可能会跟经济系的竞争

有没有人指点下迷津啊？ 跪谢啊！！！！

另我不是牛人。。。bj可能就是没有什么硬伤吧~~就是完全没有牛推。。所以有的时候可能推荐信写得好可以稍稍弥补？ 当然如果有牛推更好。。。。



follow up: off berkeley的 wl了~~~问了很多人的意见~~准备还是去berkeley~~~多谢所有CDer的帮助和建议！！！CD真的给了很多帮助！

zzmypster

原来这个是你啊
Haas有个好处就是Berkeley的各种资源都非常开放，所以Haas和Econ的Faculty资源都可以利用。
Ross的那个面临比较大的econ的竞争……最近econ的market是一年比一年难了……
不过总的来说这俩专业有点差别，看你研究兴趣了……

檀泠悠

恭喜楼主！给你PM了，请查收~

aleida

pm你了，请查收

jennylovebi

多谢楼上三位！

swzw100

个人觉得这个完完全全就是研究兴趣的问题啊。因为都差的不是很远。楼主要看看对哪一个领域的研究感兴趣咯，个人觉得还差蛮远的。b-econ有一些地方是做IO和strategy方向的，我不清楚UMICH的怎么样。

BTW，楼主的berkeley有没有面试？还是直接被waitlist了

jennylovebi

我Berkeley有很简短的电话面试~~面完试被wl了~~~我也觉得是研究方向的问题~~主要是我两边的research都没有做过很多~~所以也很难说到底哪边更适合我或者我更感兴趣啊！umich的b-econ确实是做io之类的~~~这种如果博士出来是一定会academia嘛？ 还是有可能找到工作？多谢啊！

swzw100

我只知道商学院里面strategy department做IO的越来越少了。我看到有一些之前读b-econ的最后都转做strategy，然后OM就是很多数学很多数学吧。。个人对OM的research很没概念额。。不过都是很好的offer啊，楼主珍惜咯。。。

chinagon

congrats first! to my knowledge, neither operations mgmt nor business econ has a big job market in the states each year. om's is traditionally small, wharton's grads alone can fill in a large portion. business econ seems rosier, but u r right, u may have to compete with econ guys on the mkt.


frankly, it seems a bit strange to me why u applied om & econ at the same time since u may land in widely different areas of research. om could get extremely technical along the way, if that's what u like, then fine, go for it. but if u r not quite sure about what fields u r interested in, maybe business econ is ur thing since u can have the option to choose later. even if u r not quite into econ theory, u can still do empirical research and go onto the mkt with strategy guys. btw, umich's business econ dept has some quite famous organizational economist in their program, like scott masten (nobel winner oliver williamson's first phd student) and francine lafontine (who made her name after tons of research on franchising contracts), just to name a few.

jennylovebi

thank you!!! I am now also towards BE a little bit~~I don't have any specific research in business field yet, and i guess that's why I don't have a strong preference between the two programs even though they are very different....I have met with Scott and Francine but I didn't know they are that famous (please forgive my ignorance...= =) ...

do you happen to know which field may have a better research projection? Which means, more things are remained to be studied, or, becoming "hotter" in the next few years? Especially if I want to work in Asia eventually?

Thank you so much for you reply!!!!! Best of luck for everything!