MBA对我会有多大帮助？

我在四大作了4年audit,然后出来在一间纳斯达克上市公司作了一年的财务分析，主要负责上市公司报告。我想转做投行或者咨询，请问考MBA会对我有多大的帮助呢？

如果考国内的MBA，肯定是Finance方向，是应该选中欧还是长江？

请各位牛人指点一二，不胜感激！

如果想转投行和咨询读MBA很有帮助的，这些一般都要求有个好的MBA，除非你只想在四大做咨询。长江的金融和战略教授很强，你可以上网看看。至于选哪个学校，虽然我是长江的，但建议你两所都去看看，感觉一下，看哪个更适合你。

It's so interesting that actually some americans I know attend MBA course just want to quit I-banking and get a nomal life.

Well, I don't think any top tier MC, IB could open associate positions to domestic MBA fresh graduates in next year. There were very few successful cases before, and I think that's because they are very smart people before MBA. In that sense, MBA is like a market place for top MCs or IBs to pick up talents. They usually buy at one market place called "USA MBA" because it was there since 1950s. They would definetely look into some new and small market place e.g. "China MBA" but without a lot of purchases. My girlfriend would buy one or two very good-looking dress at small street-side shops, but usually she buy from big shopping mall.

If you really want to have a MBA which could HELP YOU LOOKED NICER, SMARTER, better go to big shopping malls.

Peace.

that's right...not bad...

That really depends. Given the fast speed China is developing, and that RMB is appreciating very fast, these analysis can all be turned around.  Here are my two cents:

Try all schools including both US and China. Among the US schools, if your interest is in finance, you should definitely go if you get accepted in these schools:

Chicago, Wharton, Stanford, MIT, NYU, Columbia, UCLA, Harvard, Kellogg, Duke, UC Berkeley, Darden. These schools are all very strong in finance. Darden is weaker overall but they have a strong alumni network in IB in terms of corporate finance, IPO, MA and so on.

Other schools such as, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, USC, UNC, UT Austin, UC Irvine, Penn State, U of Maryland, Arizona State, Michigan, Wisconsin, U of Florida, Indiana, UIUC are so so. Their faculties are in the same level of HKUST and CKGSB in Finance. Of course, they have a larger size. However, a few years down the road, they will not be as prominent as CKGSB, HKUST or CEIBS in terms of business school. I believe China can catch up faster in business education than in the overal arts and sciences as that needs a longer time. These schools would be a tie for me between US and Asia

In Europe, consdider only INSEAD and LBS and you should go if you get accepted by LBS. London is a financial center. INSEAD, i put that as a tie with Asian schools in terms of finance.

Other schools, you should just ignore.

How much help you can get?

do an NPV analysis:

A. Stay where you are and assuming a salary growth rate of 20 per year

B. Choose a business school in China, after one year, double your salary and has a growth rate of 30% afterwards

C. Choose a US school, stay there for 2 years, receive USD 80K , however, notice that 5 years from now, it will probably worth only 240,000 RMB if the dollar is worth only 3 RMB then.

Should you apply? It is a no brainer if you know how to calculate NPV. The real question is: Can you get in?