My situation:
-Will save $20k going to UCLA
-Want to get an MBA
-Doing undergrad in Philosophy
I know Berkeley is much more oriented toward business but I’m doing Philosophy for my undergrad. Is there any benefit to me as a Philosophy student planning to do grad school in business to go to Berkeley over UCLA, given I’ll save $20k at UCLA? My end goal is to get into the best business school possible after undergrad, which means I will also be applying to the ivy leagues.
Your undergrad major won’t be so much of a concern for getting admitted to a topranked business school. It’s what you did after you graduated from undergrad and where you’ve gained your experience that count the most.
Poets & Quants published the list of schools that send alumni to the top MBA programs the most. Harvard was the clear favorite, followed by UPenn and Stanford. Berkeley consistently ranked well, too, often landing in the top 8. UCLA, on the other hand, did poorly in this area. But Poets & Quants published the data of the top MBA programs only, so we don’t know which undergrad schools send the most to 2nd-tier business schools.
I saw that list posted by Poets & Quants, and that’s one of the reasons I’m concerned. Berkeley sent twice as many of their undergrads to an ivy business than UCLA.
Go to UCLA ! Better weather, better sports, equal academics, fewer homeless people to hassle u.
You kept saying Ivy business, so does that mean you’re only interested in attending an MBA program conducted by an Ivy League school? How do the other topranked MBA programs strike you? Do you not find Stanford, Sloan, Booth, Kellogg and Haas equally attractive to you? Stanford, for instance, is widely viewed as superior to Wharton. Yet Stanford isn’t an Ivy league member school and Wharton is.
No, I will likely apply to most if not all the schools you listed, but I am mainly interested in Harvard, Wharton, MIT, and Stanford.