<p>my friend got a full ride to drexel and is intrested in doing the 5 year b.s/mba program and was telling me quite a bit about it. to be quite frank it sounds almost to good to be true, getting an mba in 5 years, tons of tuition money, gaining work experience while still in undergrad, and landing a good job. according to him many of the kids from the co-op wind up very successful and work for big companies. i really find this hard to believe, i hadn't really even heard of this school before he mentioned it to me. do most of these students that get out of the 5 year program land good with comprable starting salaries? is there any recruitment by bulge brackets on the drexel campus? i am really curious about this program and any information would be greatly appreciated</p>
<p>My bet is that you'll get paid more than the typical post-undergrad (probably 75K +), but you won't come close to people who went to good undergrad and top MBAs. Post MBAs in finance from top schools make from 100K in marketing to well over 250K in finance to start and move up fast. I wouldn't want to give up the opportunity to go to a good mba program, you only get to go once.</p>
<p>Your figures are inflated exceptfor the 100k avg starting but generally what you say is correct.</p>
<p>I'd rather have another year of education and get REAL experience at Wall Street and then going to a Top MBA for my 100k salary.</p>
<p>Not really.</p>
<p>For top MBAs the figures are as follows:
Avg starting at Harvard MBA this year was $174,650
Minimum salary at banks was $235K
Consulting was $130-155K
Marketing is $85-115K</p>
<p>All these increase significantly over time. My banker roommate (graduated Columbia MBA May'05) is making $250K this year. Not a job I would want though lol! He works wayyy too hard.</p>
<p>I didn't say that was inflated. I doubt Drexel gets starting 75k starting.
Plus you have to remember some of these grads are over 30 or even 40 year old successful businessmen.</p>
<p>Your figures are inflated in suggesting 20+ year olds get 200k salaries or such. This rarely happens in the business world with some exceptions such as Blackstone (Hired a kid for 185k) and ofcourse your roommate.</p>
<p>Taking out the already successful "old people", the figures would be quite lower but still I agree with you in the long term, those figures are made quite often.</p>