<p>I got admited in Vanderbilt Owen MBA and Boston College MBA
Owen with $10,000 per year. I would like to get some advise about the selection of schools.
I understood that Vanderbilt is such a good and prestigious school. However, the location is not a good way to look at it. I will focus my MBA into finance area. I believe there is a lot of finance oppounities in the New England Area. I really need you guys' opinions. Thank you very much.</p>
<p>You are probably right, but what kind of finance are you interested in? A good way to partially assess this is look at the placements and typical starting titles and companies for new graduates of both programs. Look at the career services office website for statistics, then reach out to a few recent graduates or current students you find on LinkedIn. They will very likely give you their candid opinion and it is easier to do as a call than an email.<br>
Good luck.</p>
<p>if you want to do corporate finance, you’ll be fine at either place. if you want to go into investment banking, you’d be hard pressed at either programs. wall street isn’t doing too well, students are having trouble landing jobs out of top 15 schools.</p>
<p>That is great advise. Thank you.</p>
<p>I am interested in investment banking. I do not expect that to find a job at top Ibanking company, such as goldman and morgan after graduation at wallstreet. I expectation is to find a ok job at those top companies at any other states or cities. Or small investment banking firms are fine to me. What do you think which school?</p>
<p>Based largely on assumptions about the school connections and location of the capital club - Boston seems the logical choice.</p>
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<p>You will drastically need to improve your writing skills to have success at these programs and beyond.</p>
<p>IMO Carroll is the weaker school – this is based on my experience of knowing several grads. 1 was brilliant but an oddball, the other 4 or 5 ran the gamut from mediocre to dumb.</p>
<p>I’ve only known 1-2 people from Vandy, but they’ve been considerably more impressive than the average BC folks.</p>
<p>Granted we are dealing with small samples here.</p>
<p>To give you something more concrete: </p>
<p>8% of the Owen class of 2011 went into I banking / cap mkts (and about another 25% into other finance gigs [e.g. investments, corp fin, etc]) with median starting salary of 100k (does not include sign on or yr end which often total over 100% of salary for a first yr associate) - top hiring firms included goldman, bofa, barclays… </p>
<p>[2011</a> Vanderbilt MBA Employment Report](<a href=“http://issuu.com/vanderbiltowen/docs/2011vanderbiltmbaemploymentreport]2011”>2011 Vanderbilt MBA Employment Report by Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management - Issuu)</p>
<p>For BC - I didn’t see any detailed employment info (red flag #1) on their shoddy website (red flag #2), although they did have this basic viewbook that told us that the average total comp (this includes signing bonus) for the class of 2011 was 89k (RED FLAG #3!), yikes! Also, I didn’t see any impressive top tier banks on their “indicative hiring firm list” (Deutsche Bank was on there though and they are the worst well known bank I’ve ever dealt with [both culturally and in terms of quality of employees])</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/csom_sites/mba/admission/apply/pdf/MBA-FactSheet%20Spreads.pdf[/url]”>http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/csom_sites/mba/admission/apply/pdf/MBA-FactSheet%20Spreads.pdf</a></p>
<p>Based on the number of ■■■■■■ I’ve known who went there and the extremely weak / opaque employment figures BC provides, I’d advise you to stay away from Carroll if you can go to a better school (which you apparently can); don’t worry about location, you can definitely find your way to NY finance gigs from Vandy…</p>
<p>Thank you very much Storch for your analysis of both schools’ employment reports. I have also gone through many times to those employment reports before. Truthfully, Vanderbilt Owen has better career enhancement opportunities than BC from looking at the employment reports. However, there are many small fund companies in Boston area. What do you think of that? Would that be worth to go to BC?</p>
<p>Ive got to tell you that what you are saying about BC is not entirely true. They have a website as good or better(certainly more updated)than Vandy and they do have MBA recruiting stats posted. I think Vandy and BC are on par with each other in terms of prestige, BC has more alum on WS though.</p>