Georgetown vs. Olin@Washington Received two offers. Your opinion is appreciated.
Following is kind of my investigation.
1. Reputation: Olin is a little bit outweighs Georgetown on BusinessWeek(#24 vs. #30) but Georgetown has an absolutely optimistic ranking on Financial Times(#17 worldwide). On a train to New York, an old lady recommended Georgetown to me after knowing my situation. Almost all Americans know Georgetown since previous President Clinton graduated from Georgetown. Nevertheless, I found Olin@Washington is mentioned more in a book about business schools written by an American.
2. Campus & Location: I visited both of the schools in this winter. Georgetown has some gorgeous buildings while Olin has a huge campus. Located in Washington D.C., Georgetown looks crowded and the living expenses are much higher than those at St. Louis. Nevertheless, the mid-west area has less job opportunities.
3. Tuition & Scholarship: The tuitions of two schools are almost same. Georgetown bestowed me more scholarship.
4. Admission Officers: I met all admission officers at Olin. Some of them are very kind while the "famous" dean Greenbaum was cold to me. At Georgetown I only contacted the person who interviewed me in Beijing. He gave me lots of help, including cancelling a $125 parking ticket.
Jqzhang,
Congratulation on your offers. Wonderful jobs.
With everything considered, here is some of my humble opinion and for your reference only.
1. Ranking wise, since they are both in somewhere between 20's, the rankling itself might be not be so important - though I noticed there are 6 difference by the mathmatic caculation. To me, they are both regional-importance schools.
2. As far as regional concern, Georgetown locates in DC. And, as you may have known, the line from DC --> Phil. --> NY --> Boston defines one of the most important areas in US - historically and currently. Not only when you concern the job opportunities, but also, when you regard to the exposure to the power-center (more politically), Georgetown might have better chances.
3. Olin is a good school, no doubt. Traditionaly, people graduateds in middle west don't have too much chance to go to east coast. And middle west has been one of the most important area in agriculture, manufacture, etc.
Based on the above analysis, I would strongly suggest you to go over your career development goal before you made any decision. If I were you, i would like to find out what's the concentration(s) I might want to take; then, try to compare the concentration(s) is two schools.
If that is the case, if I were you, definately, USC.
The graduate from Gerogetown, as far as I knew, most likely would try to get opportunities alone the east-coast - usally, as you may have known...Boston-NYC is the traindiational finaicial center; and most government (including non-profit and international orgnazation job are based on Maryland-DC-Vig. area). Especially, under current cloudy economy situation, geographic location might gain you a few of advantage as far as the intern and full-time job landing.
in my view, those schools you applied are almost same ranking, no top one, and also no bad one. So I think you should choose according to the location(good for placement) and your preferred concentration. In my opinion, CMU>UT Austin>Kelly>Washington>UIUC, for your referance!!
Career Plan：Consulting（IT） Ranking： Austin is better than Emory Tuition： get no money from Austin while get 70% tuition scholarship from Emory Location： Both in the south。 Would like get more information about the job market both in Austin and in Atlanta Student and Faculty：Austin is larger， about 400。 Emory has the student body of 180。 Don‘t know much about the faculty reputation Program：Austin -- Plus program vs Emory： Leader in Action？？
Your suggestion is highly appreciated！
A tough one concerning the big money involved...我只能提供一些AUSTIN的情况,对EMORY我真的一无所知.
Emory is good at banking & industry area. It has strong tie with some big companies. Atlanta is a center of several big names like: Cocacola. With that money, I will definitely choose Emory.
Disclaim: I don't know anything about Tech Consulting placement in those 2 schools.
money is so important that it will not only lower your financial burden but also help you pass the visa application. if i were you, i would choose emory.
have you ever received the newsletter from emory before? its courage training is fantastic: organized students to jump from a airplane. i don't know whether i dare to do that. also its program is quite small, it will let students and faculties have more contact to each other.
This is just what I'm confusing now. I find that Bank of America and Citi Group hired most of top50 schools MBAs (or even top 1000 which I didn't check). I'm just thinking that the MBAs from Wharton may not do the same work with the MBAs from Miami even though they all go to the same "famous financial company".
How can I know what they really do in these so-called Groups?
Siebel, you are right on this. I can speak from what I've seen. My company hires MBAs from Columbia, Wharton, Duke like schools as well as U. of Florida, and U. of Washington. But the job is different, so is pay.
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