Location有多重要？选校苦恼中，请大家帮忙！

gmatslave

以下是引用cfc在2007-4-1 0:29:00的发言：

以下是引用gmatslave在2007-3-31 23:31:00的发言：

Location is absolutely important for your future career placement. Unless your program is a top 10, you don't have competitive advantages to find a job in other states. For automobile industry, i'd say emory, cause it's close to Detroit. For electronics, I will go with USC, cause California is the center of electronics/microelectronics industry. Kelly is OK if you wanna work in midwest, but it will not get you an ideal job in other areas. Georgetown is a nationally recognized university, so you should have lots of networking opportunities. Personally, just talking about the locations, I'd rank them as followings: Southwest (California) > Northeast > Big lake area > Midwest > West (O/W)> South. South is a traditionally poor area in the entire United States, therefore, it's not a place for MBA graduates to land a job.

我不能同意这个排位。在学校层次相同的前提下，从找工作角度来讲，我的经验是：

• northeast是无争议的首位。
• 大湖及附近地区除Chicago外被称为rusty belt，听名字就知道了，夕阳型的重工业区。
• California经济总量很大，单列出来可以排名世界第六，但骨干是中小企业及新兴企业。
• South看是在哪里。Georgia, NC都是经济相当发达的州。Atlanta是美国最年轻，最有活力的城市之一。我以前说过，道指30种成分股有两种在Atlanta。其他州如MS，AL，AK，SC等确实比较穷，但Duke和Emory不愁吃穿。

另外southwest一般指Texas那一带，也是经济发达的地方。West coast一般默认是指加州。

In the States, probably only CA or Northwest can have a comparable living style with, say, Shanghai/Beijing/Shenzhen some big cities. I agree that Atlanta is a young city, and you can find a decent job there from emory. But are you satisfied? You spent 2 years just to be working in Atlanta like other local middle class? What's your advantage of being a Chinese in Atlanta? Yes, Coca Cola is in Atlanta, but the majority of its shares are held in big coporations and h/f in either northeast or California. the good jobs are in those states. California and New York are so expensive to live but there are still tons of people go there, sacrifying their big mansions in midwest. I think there's a fundamental, unchagable reason here.

chris82711

Allen, he wo 做同学把^_^

Huangzizeng

那么Georgetown比较喜欢.

royalpest

绝对正确, 选校就想买房子一样.  Location, location, location.

USC or Georgetown
而且两个学校的整体名气要更大一些,没人会拿这个排名表去招聘.基本上是地方好,学校在当地名气不错十首选.另外这两朵都是私立的. 比公立大学好很多

wangyh23

谢谢各位的宝贵建议！！

如果加上竞争观念，那麽选择又更复杂了。USC 直接要跟UCLA争工作（感觉这两个学校的找工作方向应该满像的），还有旧金山的两家抢生意。Georgetown在DC应该没有问题，但DC工作机会应该不多，要跟东岸诸强校争NY的工作机会好像也是很竞争（也许更竞争...），有没有有经验的朋友可以分享一下想法？

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-4-1 9:00:23编辑过]

hccihll

以下是引用royalpest在2007-4-1 6:47:00的发言：
绝对正确, 选校就想买房子一样.  Location, location, location.

USC or Georgetown
而且两个学校的整体名气要更大一些,没人会拿这个排名表去招聘.基本上是地方好,学校在当地名气不错十首选.另外这两朵都是私立的. 比公立大学好很多

In my opinion, I do not think that the private schools are better than public schools is true!  For example, Ross and Hass are all public b-schools, but they are still better than many other private schools. 

If you choose USC, it's just like you said that you will face very intense competition with UCLA and other famous public schools.  When it comes to Georgetown, definitely it is very good at finance.  But, in DC, there are a lot of governmont departments, and you still do not have many good opportunities to find a good job! 

I truly believe that location is very important, but location is not everything! and it all depends on what you want!  So, maybe you can share with us what do yo want first!

Huangzizeng

同意楼上的,建议楼主多问问在校学生的就业情况.

zxsteven

If I were in your shoes, I would have a hard time to choose between Emory and USC. GTown is just so so and in DC area you have to face strong competition from Darden and other schools in the east coast; unless you are a big fan of world bank or IFC cause GTown has more network with such organizations. Kelly is pretty good in terms of reputation of Marketing, but you would not like its remote location and the rusty economy of surrounding area (Inidiana, Illinoise and Michigan).

USC is well-known across the country for its college (lots of rich people send their kids there) and football,and the location in LA would give you an edge especially if you are looking for jobs in media&entertainment (hightech and Pharm as well) But in CA, everybody knows UCLA and UCBerkerley are better schools for MBAs, which might have negative impacts on USC's career placement. One more thing to keep in mind, USC definitely has more connections with Aisa (such as HK) for its alum network.

Emory is a decent school if this is the furthest point you can get; nice reputation in the south (well, comepiting with Duke, UNC and Darden) and well-located in the city of Atlanta. I am not from there, but I have heard lots of positive comments about this school in terms of job placement for internationals. At least, companies like DuPont does recruiting for its Marketing Leadership program at Emory but not in other schools mentioned above. My impression is Emory would provide you more job opoortunities if you want to work in the U.S.  

Just my two cents.

liongirl

你想上西安的全国重点，还是上北京的普通高校？

dodolulu

楼上的比喻很妙, 可以再说清楚点吗? 愿闻其详~