What MBA program for Army Officer
I’ve got 3 admits this season- Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, and Vanderbilt. Short term goal is to consult for MBB or Deloitte in Philadelphia.
Trying to get some opinions on both schools reputation for management consulting. Carnegie Mellon is ranked higher, but I think Georgetown has more recognition.
Will Georgetown has as much access to companies as CMU? Will the salary be he same coming out if I can get the job?
My background- 5 years active duty in the Army. 2 combat deployments, West Point graduate
I'd pick Georgetown. It might give you some IB options as well that the others do not if MBB falls through.
I'm at Georgetown now and I'm recruiting for consulting. The Veteran community here is very strong and consulting is probably the most popular destination post-MBA. Still early in the recruiting season, but for a program that a lot of people don't consider strong with MBB, I think we have a dozen (out of maybe 60 people seriously going for consulting) that'll be interviewing with BCG (McK and Bain haven't invited people yet). Big 4 firms recruit heavily from Georgetown as well.
As the other poster mentioned, Georgetown would also give you plenty of opportunities to recruit for IB.
Thanks cowboy. The thing that makes me nervous is the difference in salaries. Carnegie Mellon reports an average and median salary for consultants as 135-140 while Georgetown reports 120. Why the big gap?
Also, Carnegie Mellon gave me a $20k scholarship per year and Georgetown gave me zi
Go Georgetown or CMU based on proximity to Philly - will increase your chances for MBB recruiting. There are 0 grads from Vandy in MBB Philly.
Tepper seems to be better at first glance even with close rankings. From https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/mbb-from-ross-mba</a">this it looks like 2.5x % people go to MBB from Tepper (15.1%) compared to McDonough (6.3%). Secondly, differences in salary may be due to the federal/commercial consulting split, which tilts in CMU's favor if you're looking for commercial. Lastly, given you have 40k in aid from CMU, I'd go with Tepper.
FYI: Most common MBB locations for Georgetown grads, in order: DC NYC Boston Chicago Most common MBB locations for CMU grads, in order: NYC Pittsburgh Chicago Boston
Do you have the same data for any other MBAs? Looking for Ross and Kellogg specifically.
Yep! Very roughly sketch - I used LinkedIn, top 5 options displayed in filters are the most common. You can do the same thing for any school you're interested in (check locations) as well as any locations you're interested in (check schools). Admittedly it doesn't reveal much that hasn't been explained in linked threads already.
Ross: ~425 current, Chicago (25%) Detroit (16%) NJ/NYC (8%) SF (4%) Kellogg: ~1050 current, Chicago (30%) NJ/NYC (8%) Dallas (5%) SF (5%)
If I want to do commercial will the salary offers be the same out of both programs? I want to make Georgetown work for my wife because DC would be a much better place for her career wise
Yes, they will.
Forgive me because I am new to this, but Can I leverage my offer at CMU to try and get help at Georgetown?
Agree with all of the above. Since you have aid from another school, I would definitely talk to Gtown and see what they say.
For the salary difference, I would say that a lot of it is due to Gtown sending a lot of students to Federal consulting. But as the above posters have said, whether you are at CMU or Gtown, commercial salaries will be the same.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Here is one last question for you guys- McCombs would be the best school for my wife’s career. After the MBA we want to relocate to the north east. Would going to mccombs make it difficult to transition to a consulting firm in the NE? I’m waitlisted at mccombs so am not sure if I want to play that game the next few months if it wouldn’t be worth it
It'll be more difficult for MBB, not sure about T2/B4. See https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/lowest-ranked-b-school-for-mbb-r…</a">this recent thread. Still possible (I did something similar successfully) but you'll need to have/form strong connections to the NE locations of interest.
So if I were you I'd go CMU first unless Georgetown matches aid, with Georgetown as a 2nd choice.
Figured it out after doing a little more research and talking to a campus recruiter from delloitte, a Tepper grad who is at delloitte, and a former Mckinsey consultant.
Gtown doesn't get many recruiters for the commercial side. Tepper gave me more money, is higher ranked, and puts twice as high of a percentage of students into consulting than Vanderbilt does. Couldn't pass this up.
Cant wait to get up to Pittsburgh and start.
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