<p>Hey...</p>
<p>Just wanna know if anyone know about the Masters program in Finance the JHU? The general reputation of Carey Business School...</p>
<p>How is this comparable to say.... Washington University in St Louis?</p>
<p>Olin (Wash u) is better because it is older and has the contacts but JHU will catch up soon.</p>
<p>JHU's business school is not even ranked tho. How can it catch up really?</p>
<p>Wasn't it just founded like this decade?</p>
<p>Even Yale, with all the king's horses and all the kings prestige power, couldn't turn the Yale School of Management into a top-notch b-school</p>
<p>Yeah, the Carey business school became a separate independent entity from the SPSBE (School of Professional Studies in Business and Education) in Jan. 1 2007. The SPSBE program has existed for more than a century and the origin of SPSBE can be traced back to 1909.</p>
<p>Hopkins’ Carey will surpass WashU's Olin if ASU's Carey school gives any indication of the future.... :D</p>
<p>After Hopkins rejected Board of trustee member William Polk Carey's $50 million offer to create a new business school at JHU the first time around... Carey took the $50 million and gave it to Arizona State University (ASU) to create the 22nd ranked W.P. Carey business school.</p>
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"In 2003, Carey took his $50 million to Arizona, where his family owned land, and by 2004, Arizona State University's newly renamed and endowed W.P. Carey School of Business was ranked 22nd nationally, according to U.S. News & World Report. </p>
<p>"I think what really got Hopkins interested was that they saw that I gave this money to ASU, and it became higher ranked than any business school in Maryland," Carey said. </p>
<p>In the same year, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine lost its No. 2 ranking to Washington University in St. Louis. </p>
<p>At the same time, Carey says, Arizona State's MBA program was ranked higher than the program at Washington University's Olin School of Business. </p>
<p>"They thought, ASU doesn't have the same high stature as Johns Hopkins," he said. "Well, they were wrong."" </p>
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<p>Olin is better but JHU will catch up very fast.</p>
<p>Don't count on it. Play it safe, go to Harvard Business.</p>
<p>In reality, if you want an MBA - work a few years and then find a school with a strong focus on your area of interest (marketing, HR, finance, accounting, non-profits, etc). Harvard, Wharton and GSB (Stanford), while good on their own merits, all have areas where their faculty are lacking so the "be safe go to harvard" really isn't helpful. As in, marketing is not a strength at Wharton, rather Northwestern Kellogg is incredibly outstanding in this area. </p>
<p>I imagine areas of health care finance, international health care management will grow to be the Carey Schools area of strength in the next decade or so. That's just a guess however.</p>
<p>JHU doesn't really have a traditional business school. The business program has been around for a long time in various forms, but it's historically been a part-time, night-school type program for working professionals. Unlike top business schools, it generally hasn't had full-time faculty, full-time students, research focus, or AACSB accreditation. </p>
<p>However, it looks like the school may move in those directions in the future. They are apparently planning to apply for AACSB accreditation, which should put them in the national rankings.</p>
<p>My understanding is that JHU business degrees are well regarded in the Baltimore-Washington area, but that they currently don't have the national reputation of top business school degrees.</p>
<p>Don't count on it. Play it safe, go to Harvard Business.</p>
<p>Doesn't matter what the school is focused on, the overall reputation of a B-school and the people you meet there are probably the most important returns to paying 100,000+ plus two years of opportunity cost. </p>
<p>Maybe 20 yrs later carey b-school may have a chance to rival the establishment. But for now, most of us in econ, ir, and other undergrad studies are realistic and practical. Under this state of an economy, it's better to play it safe.</p>
<p>Reputation matters - that's inevitable. But it can only get you an interview, not a job.<br>
Your point of 'who you meet' is important; however, going to a school that is incredibly strong in your own discipline matters a lot. I mean, if you want to be with the best marketer's, you go to Northwestern-Kellogg and network there in those disciplines.<br>
Someone who wants to work in HR or Non-profit work can't really help you get a job if you want to work in corporate finance. In all disciplines of business, networking within your own niche is most important. </p>
<p>The "harvard is best" mentality is very common of people who have never worked in business; once you work in business, you'll find that there are great people and outstanding businessmen who didn't go to highly selective business schools but have something much more important: experience.</p>
<p>Do not go to Carey if you are serious about a career in finance. Go to one of the established, accredited schools, and one that has ties with CFA if you are interested in the investments or investment banking field. Hopkins business used to be good but the new management has recently turned the program into nothing but fluff and theory.</p>
<p>From Carey you will leave with theory taught by people with no experieince and an indoctrination into the social philosophies of the new management. You’ll get lots of interviews because of the JHU name but as word of the changes at Carey become more widely known, they won’t be taken seriously.</p>
<p>Well…A friend of mine goes to JHU Carey GMBA program(full time program) and he thinks it is a great learning experiences. According to him , classmates background is diverse and the program is challenging enough. As such, I would say i agree with Pead128- Hopkins Carey will surpass WashU’s Olin if ASU’s Carey school gives any indication of the future:)</p>
<p>While Hopkins in general is really great, the Carey Business School is not stellar. The school is not accredited, so I would no recommend going there. In the future, it will probably get better, but for now I think you should pick somewhere else.</p>