Many thanks for sharing your background, LZ. Actually, I am senior student in ZJU and apply for PhD in Information Systems this year. In my application, I find that one serious problem of students in ZJU is that they dare not to apply B-schools' PhD programs directly after undergraduate study. I think it is an illusion that b-school is much harder to get in. In fact, there're a lot of students in top universities of Mainland China try and succeed every year. Another problem is that, undergraduate studnets in School of Management of ZJU don't know there're such a chance to apply PhD, instead they apply master degrees intensively every year. At the same time, excellent students from Engineering School (our university is extremely strong in engineering) don't have an awareness of OM and IS programs (I think OM and IS programs welcome engineering students) in US b-schools. I think b-school is much better than engineering schools in terms of student placement. Engineering studens don't apply OM/IS (they keep applying CS, EE, and ME), missing good opportunities in b-schools. What do you think of the abovementioned two problems among ZJU students? What can we do to change it? Again, congratulations to your application results! -- by 会员 boum (2010/3/23 12:10:51)
你觉得本科毕业申商学院很难是illusion? 呵呵,我倒觉得是真难。。我没试过本科直接申商学院,我认识的wharton PHD的中国人,大都是本科毕业直接过来的。北大的最多,三个,都是数学系的。清华有个工业工程直接去wharton的 (这几位北大清华的都是排名数一数二的)还有两个中国人是在美国读的本科。另外有个finance 的中国phd是中科大的数学本科,在美国读的master。据一个朋友说,趋势会有变化,wharton 开始喜欢在美国读过master 的中国学生。可能考虑到中国学生基础都比较好,但是在美国读过master 可能对专业有更深的了解。
另外,理工科学生申商学院的优势是数学基础,逻辑思维和分析问题能力比较强。貌似CS和数学专业申OM/OR更受欢迎。。理工科学生唯一的不足可能就是对国外商学院做的科研内容不太了解。申请的时候不能只说我数学好或者编程好,就指望被录取。他们希望学生对未来有成熟的思考(包括研究方向和职业规划)和独立开展科研的能力。所以个人以为,工科学生如果准备申商学院,除了继续把数学和编程学好,还得去经济、管理学院旁听一些基础课。比如金融数学,宏观、微观经济学,测量经济学,应用经济学(我不太懂经济的分类,尽管开学后会修这些课,分错了别拍我。。)这些对OM中的revenue management 和dynamic pricing 来说应该都是基础知识。。
挺后悔当时在强化班没认真听课。。-- by 会员 willowzju (2010/3/23 14:23:12)
[/quote] 这个“难”在程度上被夸大了。在今年之前的04、05届管理学院本科没有人申请北美商学院PhD (硕士申请的也很少),其实北清复交的很多学生都成功过。我不认为我们学校的本科生只能申NUS b-school这种,应该有更好的北美offer(04届经济学院有本科申到了wharton Phd AD)。 在学校论坛上竟然有人说“商科类有PhD?”“理工科今年很多Harvard,UCB等牛offer了,经济类怎么没有消息?”这样的眼界。。(前者根本不知道商科Phd的存在,后者不知道商科的难度与含金量)只能汗。 当然,在我们这个理工科盛行的学校,b-school是被忽视的。My dream is to let more ZJUers (both undergrads and masters) know that they can apply PhD in US b-schools. Just be confident.  -- by 会员 boum (2010/3/23 15:40:31) [/quote]
从国内直接申请美国的top business school,偏quant偏技术的专业的难度要小于偏behavior的专业。确实,国内top高校的理工科一些学生不太了解Business School Ph.D.也是一条路,但一部分原因也是因为国内的商学院整体水平来说太水,让别人感觉商学院做的东西就是忽悠... |