Most "academic" or "intellectual" b-school?
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on 3/23/07 at 1:07pm
Any thoughts on which business schools have are the most "academic", in that what they are doing is less vocational and more conceptual? I.e., which MBA programs are most similar to Ph.D. programs? If someone was less worried about learning how to be a mover and shaker and more worried about gaining a deep understanding of the mechanics and fundamentals of business and finance, where would you tell them to go? M.I.T.? Wharton? Darden?





Get a PhD or Masters in
Get a PhD or Masters in Finance then. MBA is nothing but models and bottles for 2 years.
Not MBA. Most academics do
Not MBA. Most academics do MAs then PhDs.
Yeah MBA's are apparently
Yeah MBA's are apparently awesome. Someone once wrote that if it weren't for MBA schools a lot of bars would go out of business.
To answer the OP's question,
To answer the OP's question, I'd say either Sloan (MIT) or UChicago.
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I'd go to a school, like
I'd go to a school, like Penn (STATE)! Nothin' is better than partying and getting laid!
From the suburbs...
Yeah Penn State
There is a guy that works here that went to Penn State. Well by work here, I mean he drops off our dinner orders on his bike.
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Re: Yeah Penn State
There is a guy that works here that went to Penn State. Well by work here, I mean he drops off our dinner orders on his bike.
hahahaha... but you should SEE that bike!
That's fine for your
That's fine for your undergrad, but if you get a fucking MBA from Penn State you can expect to be very poor later on.
But their top 50!
But their top 50!
Re: But their top 50!
But their top 50!
umm...usnews rates it below 50. dunno what happened in the 2008 rankings though. BW puts it at 40 something. its ranked 13 among public schools, which seems fine. i feel more than rankings, what would give u a better idea is the school's placement record, mean/median salaries and the companies that recruited on campus. If those match with ur career aspirations and the program is solid...then it's fine.
i wouldn't go to penn state
i wouldn't go to penn state for an mba if you want to do investment banking... its a good corporate mba though.
penn state
hilarious blast about the Smeal biker........
Q: How do you get a Penn
Q: How do you get a Penn State grad off your porch?
A: You pay for the pizza.
Of course, this works with any school.
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taking the time and money
taking the time and money off to get a MBA that's not at the very least in the top 20 is considered an extermly poor investment by most studies.
top degrees in quantitative finance (master's) like princeton, Mit, etc. are the most academic of the sort.