What's the general consensus on UCI Merage FEMBA?

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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<p>I am in the process of applying for MBA programs. My employer offers a great tuition reimbursement program, but I just found out that they most likely will not pay for my top choice school: USC. This leaves me with only 3 options:</p>

<p>1) I can shoot for the stars and apply for UCLA's FEMBA, but my GPA and GMAT are below their middle 80% range. </p>

<p>2) I can still apply to USC's Part-time MBA program and, assuming I get accepted, try to convince our company's President and CEO to pay the tuition.</p>

<p>3) I can apply to UCI's FEMBA program.</p>

<p>I'm not counting on option 1 becoming a reality, and option 3 seems to be the safest route. If I try option 2, I run the risk of wasting several months of my time and energy into the application process, (hopefully) getting accepted, only to find out my employer won't foot the bill. </p>

<p>I'm planning on staying local to the SoCal area, and UCI's FEMBA program seems to be the 3rd best option behind UCLA and USC. Taking into consideration the fact that someone else will be footing the $100k cost of the MBA, would UCI still be a strong alternative? I'm in a bit of a dead-end position, and, to keep myself sane, really need to start an MBA program ASAP and take advantage of my employer's education program. It's very difficult for me to imagine staying another year to put myself in a better position for UCLA's FEMBA.</p>

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<p>Im at marshall 2nd year pt mba program. The answer is it depends on what you want to do. If you want to do finance, its tough coming from usc, let alone uci. This is not to say there is no one breaks into finance, since i have friends that did. Its just tough coming from usc. </p>

<p>Consulting? Were not a target for MBB (undergrad is, but not mba). You can still get consulting gig from tier2 firms tho (ibm, big4). </p>

<p>Goldman sachs comes for undergrad recruiting, which i crashed. And their MD said that the only target in west coast are cal and stan straight to face. </p>

<p>Btw ucla mba cost just as much as usc. So i dont see why your employer would want to pay for one and not the other, considering ucla femba costs more. </p>