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They attained their degree from State schools and are doing very well salary wise. By mediocre, I'm being realistic here and am not referring to Devry or anything of that nature.
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<p>I understand what you are saying. However, what I think you fail to grasp is the wide salary variance between good schools and average schools as well as the difference in career opportunities. The discrepancy is much larger for MBA programs than it is for undergrad programs. (btw, there are fantastic state schools, so that description doesn't mean much)</p>
<p>Every po-dunk university has an MBA program now and they are not all created equal. Recruiters know this. MBA graduates know this. I know this, and pretty much everyone on this forum knows this. If you go to a business school that allows a high number of undergrads to enter the program (and you are one of those undergrads), you aren't going to be much better off then getting an MBA. Forget the fact that you won't be considered for top jobs..but even if you get hired by a fortune 500 that also hires someone from a top 30 school, you aren't going to be hired at the same level that they are hired at. Your position won't be a whole hell of a lot different than an entry-level undergrad position.</p>
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I'm sorry vectorwega, but your post is ********. "Are you fine with making a mediocre salary?" Shut up dude. A few years after he gets the degree it won't even matter. Most people I know haven't gone to prestigious schools and are doing very well for themselves (certainly not "mediocre" in terms of salaries).
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<p>^ "A balding loser" is a perfect example of why MBAs with no work experience are not looked upon very favorably by employers. As for his comments, they are simply ludicrous. In regards to salaries, i could name dozens of people who are doing "pretty well for themselves" with simply an undergrad degree. Doing "pretty well" is completely arbitrary. You should base your decision on actual numbers.</p>
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To the TS, you have much better grades than I do, and I plan on getting an MBA. I'll probably go to a cheap, unprestigious state school, just like my dad, and pay my dues in the work world rather than the academic one.
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<p>Your stats may limit you to unprestigious school. The threadstarter is in quite a different situation. He could very well get into a good school in a few years and it would be a shame if he made the mistake of entering a program right now.</p>
<p>In regards to your dad, I know exactly what you are saying. My dad also attended an unprestigious state school and did quite well for himself. However, times are different now and MBA programs are different. Back then, students went directly from undergrad to get their MBAs. Today, the gap has increased because some schools require work experience (of most) and some don't. </p>
<p>My dad encouraged two of my brothers to get their MBAs straight out of undergrad and one ended up in a crap corporate job and the other one couldn't get a job and got out of business altogether. The avg starting salaries of students from the MBA programs my dad and my brothers attended are currently not much different than what I was paid out of undergrad 7 years ago (mediocre GPA, non top100 undergrad at the time).</p>
<p>In some instances going to a lower level MBA program makes sense (and i'm thinking of a school like TCU...really, i would avoid programs lesser than that). However, when you are a proven high performer in academia (3.89 GPA) why not try to prove yourself as a high performer in the real world because if you are a high performer there you are seriously limitiing yourself.</p>