<p>i have currently been admitted to to the medical school at ucla and am greatly interested in healthcare consulting/hospital administration/etc. while the med school is very respected, i know andersen is not that high on many people's lists... so my question is, would getting the joint mba at ucla really help me accomplish my goals (considering i would already have the md) or should i wait until after graduating/residency and try to get into a more elite b-school?</p>
<p>i also have a secondary question.. would a md/mba or harvard jd be better in terms of getting into hospital admin/management?</p>
<p>I suggest you wait until you’re out of med school. First of all, an administrative degree is not actually necessary for hospital administration (although, if you do want one, a Master’s in Healthcare Administration would obviously be better than an MBA). You should go out in the world and get a job first before running off to school again, or staying in school forever. Also, a Harvard JD will be pretty much useless.</p>
<p>You need to figure out what you want to do. If you want to do be a doctor, go to medical school. If you want to go into management or consulting, go to business school. Having a MD will help landing you a job in healthcare consulting, but is 4 years of med school + residency worth the extra boost? </p>
<p>Anderson isn’t known for it’s healthcare management program, and doesn’t have that much networking in that area. If you want to go into the healthcare management, I’d suggest either Duke-Fuqua (best) or UPenn-Wharton (#2).</p>
<p>However, if you are fresh out of college, it will be highly unlikely to get into an elite program, so you’ll have to work a bit. If you want a MBA/MD, bschool will be more lenient on the work experience. But you’ll be stuck at Anderson.</p>
what about nationwide? staying in CA has never really been a goal of mine…</p>
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<p>thanks for your advice! i really appreciate it. i do want to be a doctor, but it’s not something that i’d want to do full time for the rest of my life, which is why i would really be interested in healthcare management/consulting.</p>
<p>kleos, I’m Italian and now based in Asia. If people in Europe and Asia have heard of UCLA-Andersen and thought of it as a solid business school, it sure is a good school in its “home country” too, don’t you think? It maybe is not as prestigious and highly praised as Stanford or Haas, but it is a solid business school overall nonetheless. I would rank it higher than USC-Marshall, and Marshall is already a highly respected business school on most people’s list.</p>