Purdue 和UT Austin 怎么选择大家帮我看看

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以下是引用waterg在2006-4-14 17:31:00的发言：

关于气候，看lz怕冷还是怕热了。关于方向，我很奇怪，lz说中国学生工科背景的一般怎样怎样，却不说自己的兴趣在何处。说句不好听的，你觉得自己喜欢FINANCE,OPERATION MANAGEMENT, SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT吗？知道这些方向毕业后的工作具体内容大概是什么样的吗？自己的性格，特点会喜欢适合这样的工作吗？如果答案是yes,那就行了。

我想如果是我，我会从这样的角度考虑问题，我觉得工科理科要career change，也许mba是最大的机会，如果现在不考虑这些问题，也许将来就晚了。当然，想做没有太晚的时候，但至少可以少走弯路。

关于UT Austin, 除了accounting, Marketing和Entreprenship也相当不错。当然看lz喜欢什么了。

Good luck to you!!

谢谢WATERG MM.

大家给我这么多INPUT, I also feel obliged to share more with you and those who feel interested. Hope it will serve as reference for those in the same boat.

(1) Regarding the weather, I really do not think I will take this one as decision making factor.

(2) Regarding what I wanted to do in the future:

I have engineering background. Really I want to get into the finance industry. If I am in my mid twenties I will not hesitate for a second to get into that career. However considering about my age I have to take the placement and how the potential employer look at a relatively "old" MBA into consideration.  

Bear the above in mind and the strong point at Purdue I have positioned myself at two concentrations. Operations management and Finance. This is trying to take full advantage of on campus recruiting at Purdue, and to leave sufficient room for some magic to occur.

Interestingly enough when I talked to Chinese student at Purdue I found that most of them (if not all of them) have the similar idea and they are concentrating on the same two concentrations. To certain extent I am convineced by the fact that what I assumed is not too far from the reality itself. That is why I mentioned this in my previous post.

(3) UT Austin is still on my list. I have very good impression of UT Austin for the objective reasons which is available for everyone here and my personal reason which makes sense to myself only as well. That is why it is kind of difficult for me now.

谢谢每一位跟贴. 以及短信交流的XDJM. 你们的INPUT对我帮助很大. 希望我们的讨论能够让不仅是我也让关注本楼的每个人都能有一个更清楚的PICTURE.

tonyadidas

很显然楼主已经是大哥级的人物了，小弟这厢先有理了。大哥自己的分析考虑的因素我认为很全面，也很有借鉴性。CD的兄弟姐妹也一如既往地热心与理性。小弟我的志向是作Finance的研究工作。但今年很不得志，被所有的PHD枪毙了。最后在一些Master Program里选择了MBA in Krannert,作为来年PHD的准备工作。这也是Krannert里面一位Finance领域很牛的教授给的建议。这位教授应该是Financial Management的老师。作为很有可能成为的“玉米田守望者”， 我很希望能和大哥多建立一些交流。tonyadidas@msn.com，如果大哥有时间的话不妨聊聊。