求教：我的情况能否申MBA？

star_tu

本人上海重点大学新闻学本科毕业，GPA
3.6左右，在校期间担任学生会干部，也做过两年志愿者，为农民工小朋友上课，并担任一段时间的组织者；大三期间随“自然之友”去山西大同考察民生；同时
拍摄了一部关于农民工小孩的短片，被央视报道。实习和工作都在媒体，基本上国内一些较好的媒体都待过，最近的一份工作跑经济新闻，采访了大量企业管理层以及公司新闻。

    
目前由于家庭原因，已经在美国西雅图，打算申请学校，对MBA的课程很感兴趣，有申请意向，不知我的情况能否申请到好的MBA？

另外，其实现在还在MBA和MPA两者犹豫，觉得前者可能更好找工作，出路更广；但因为本人还蛮喜欢公共政策方面的课程的（当然MBA的课程也喜欢），只是
觉得MBA的课程只局限在经济范畴，而MPA融合了政治和经济，可能更多元化一点；而且我觉得MPA
MBA有些课程其实有重合，我觉得读MPA不仅可以学部分
MBA的课程，还多了政策分析等部分，是否会更有竞争力？这看法不知是否正确？我
也同意从未来收入等实际角度来说，MBA可能更好一些；但从兴趣考虑，我自己仍然想学一些公共政策方面的课程。所以比较纠结。

    

谢谢牛人们！在线等待大家的回复！

star_tu

自己顶一下，有人知道么？

cosmopolite

这个只有你自己定．好像有ｊｏｉｎｔ　ｄｅｇｒｅｅ，我认识一个牛人在读沃顿ＭＢＡ同时也在读哈弗ＭＰＡ，还有奖学金．．．

star_tu

这同学牛的~~因为我没有在公司工作的背景，这样能申请好的MBA吗？

wycg

以下是引用star_tu在2009-6-2 5:25:00的发言：
本人上海重点大学新闻学本科毕业，GPA
3.6左右，在校期间担任学生会干部，也做过两年志愿者，为农民工小朋友上课，并担任一段时间的组织者；大三期间随“自然之友”去山西大同考察民生；同时
拍摄了一部关于农民工小孩的短片，被央视报道。实习和工作都在媒体，基本上国内一些较好的媒体都待过，最近的一份工作跑经济新闻，采访了大量企业管理层以及公司新闻。

 
目前由于家庭原因，已经在美国西雅图，打算申请学校，对MBA的课程很感兴趣，有申请意向，不知我的情况能否申请到好的MBA？

另外，其实现在还在MBA和MPA两者犹豫，觉得前者可能更好找工作，出路更广；但因为本人还蛮喜欢公共政策方面的课程的（当然MBA的课程也喜欢），只是
觉得MBA的课程只局限在经济范畴，而MPA融合了政治和经济，可能更多元化一点；而且我觉得MPA
MBA有些课程其实有重合，我觉得读MPA不仅可以学部分
MBA的课程，还多了政策分析等部分，是否会更有竞争力？这看法不知是否正确？我
也同意从未来收入等实际角度来说，MBA可能更好一些；但从兴趣考虑，我自己仍然想学一些公共政策方面的课程。所以比较纠结。

 

谢谢牛人们！在线等待大家的回复！

你在大学期间干的事,和你的同龄人比起来, 要出色不少. 不过和MBA的申请人比,并不突出.申请到好的MBA(我理解是TOP的)会很难.

就算你申到了一个MBA, 以你目前的情况,读出来收获也不会很大. 因为你没有工作经验,商学院里面讲的东西无法很好的吸收.毕业后找工作也是个问题.

MPA不了解.

建议先读个新闻学的master, 出来工作几年再考虑读MBA.

cannedpineapple

I too know at least 10 people who are doing the Harvard Kennedy
School/Wharton MBA dual degree (after all, they are my classmates!).
This is not a small investment, especially at this early stage of your
life when you may not be sure what you want to do. Generally, they take
up this course because they want to learn about policy and about
business at the same time- and more importantly, pursue careers in the
space (eg. Political consulting, commerce ministry, etc). If that suits
your goal, go for it.

There are many other dual degree
programmes out there. At Wharton there is MBA/MA from Lauder (International Business), MBA/MA
from SAIS (Government and Business), MBA/JD (Law), MBA/MD (Medicine), and so on. While you do
have an interesting background (that looks a lot like mine, actually),
the one MOST IMPORTANT question you must ask yourself is, where do you see your career
going? What is the job you want to do? For most people, they're not
sure, which is why working a few years to clarify their career goals before the MBA makes sense. For
myself, I was sure of my own goals, and so thought that going to
business school was the right choice right away. So for instance, if
you want to be a journalist, then perhaps a Masters in Journalism makes
a lot more sense than MBA. Especially when you want to get into
business school without working experience, you must almost have a
lazer like (very clear) focus on what exactly you want to do in your
career- using the MBA to 'open your options' is just not the way it
works, particularly straight out of college.

As for whether
students- like you and I- without working experience can contribute to
class, I can tell you that I'm having no problems. In fact, because my
internships were in strategic functions, I've found myself able to
contribute better in classes than some ex-engineers with no business
background. In addition, while drawing on the experience of your
classmates is useful, in fact an ex-consultant for instance would not
be taking strategy. What this means is that the people with the best
experience in the subject often aren't taking the class with you. After
all, the reason your classmates are taking the class primarily because they (like you) lack the skill,
and want to learn it. So basically most people know little or nothing about the subject, and as long as you learn quickly and are sharp,
you'll pick things up fine. One reason schools require GPA/GMAT
calculations is exactly for this: to determine if you're going to pick
up the material well.

Good luck! I remember in 2007 I went
through the same process as you, and after clarifying my career goals
(I too was deciding between journalism school, economics and business
school) I chose to go get my MBA, and I've not regretted it ever since. You only have one chance at an MBA, and sometimes taking a few years to decide whether it's right for you is a good call. Sometimes, though, going straight to business school is the right option =)

[此贴子已经被作者于2009-6-4 12:49:20编辑过]

star_tu

谢谢Jason的详细回复，我给你的邮箱发了一些进一步的问题，希望你抽空能帮忙回复一下，非常感谢：）

star_tu

谢谢wycg的回复，因为我已经不想再读新闻学了，其知识结构比较单一，而且我将来想转行到商业领域，所以才想读MBA帮助转换轨道。我的经历确实在广大MBA申请者中并不突出，你觉得有除了语言成绩外什么办法可以弥补么？

[此贴子已经被作者于2009-6-7 10:31:31编辑过]