<p>If the plan is to attend business school after undergrad, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and Yale are probably worth their undergrad price tags but how about the rest? Perhaps the in-state school is the better plan and save the money for later schooling.</p>
<p>Do companies ever pay their employees to attend the top business schools (SU, Harvard, Sloan, Wharton, Kellogg)?</p>
<p>Why not just go to a top undergrad business school if you’re HYPS material? I think many grads of schools like Wharton and Sloan don’t feel the need for MBAs these days. Also for business Dartmouth and Duke should not be overlooked for their powerhouse networks in business and strong undergrad econ.</p>
<p>Also most that pay for school pay for night/weekend type programs which is a real grind. Not many just send you away for 2 years with all expenses paid.</p>
<p>If you’re concerned about brand names, the brand name on your MBA is more important than the brand name on your undergrad degree.</p>
<p>Know that if you hope to attend a top MBA program, you will have to get 3-5 years of experience before they’ll consider your application. </p>
<p>Few employers pay for very few of their employees to go to top MBA programs. The only places I’ve seen that level of investment is with VPs doing eMBAs. Many employers, on the other hand, will pay for 2-3 courses per semester at instate public rates. </p>
<p>For my money, I could not figure out how to justify a Penn MBA if I planned on doing anything at all besides investment banking (which I did not want to do). I ended up letting my employer pay for my grad degree at Penn State, and I’ve been very happy with that decision.</p>
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If that is the plan, and by “business school” you mean a top-15 school, then you be looking at colleges where students get the type of jobs out of undergrad that make them attractive candidates to the business schools after 3-5 years of job experience. You should also be figuring out what type of activities and internships these people do while in college since its not the case that every one of their grads has an equal shot at those jobs. And should you not end up going to a school that is a pipeline into consulting or Wall Street then you should be thinking about how to make yourself a strong candidate for one of those jobs or the other fields the top MBA programs tend to accept students from.</p>
<p>Good advice. If the business interest is within the computer industry, does any of the advice change?</p>
<p>A couple of things to consider:</p>
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<p>[Wharton</a> Undergraduate | Top 10 List](<a href=“http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/undergrad/why-wharton/top-10-list.cfm]Wharton”>http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/undergrad/why-wharton/top-10-list.cfm)</p>
<p>^ There’s nothing like an unbiased source.</p>
<p>And with apologies to Uncle Albert, that’s nothing like an unbiased source.</p>
<p>^ Didn’t say it was. But it’s at least as informed and fact-based as–if not more than–anything else posted here.</p>
<p>And one can easily investigate further by reviewing Wharton Undergrad career surveys and reports:</p>
<p>[Career</a> Services, University of Pennsylvania](<a href=“http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/undergrad/reports.html]Career”>http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/undergrad/reports.html)</p>