BU or Purdue for equity research
Hi everyone, I am looking for some advice. I would like to enter equity research at an AM firm and I want to use an MBA to do it. I have a BA in English and don't have experience in finance, but I have begun studying the CFA material.
I've been accepted to BU's evening MBA and Purdue's full-time MBA (both schools would require me to move). Purdue would give me a the traditional MBA experience of an internship in the summer which would be helpful to switch into a new industry. But the location isn't great and the school places students in more corporate finance positions than in AM equity research.
BU offers a strong network in city with a lot of equity research positions. The evening MBA provides a lot of flexibility with semester course loads. Ideally, I could take classes full-time the first semester, make some contacts, and hopefully land a very entry-level position at an AM firm or bank by the second semester, and then go back down to part-time classes, finish the MBA and continue to grow within the firm that hired me.
BU's career services said this is possible. What do you think?
Evening MBAs are typically for career "supplement-ers" while FT MBAs are for career switchers: you fall into the latter, so Purdue seems like the naturally better choice.
BU does have better name recognition though. Perhaps others can chime in; know of any Purdue MBAs on the Street and in ER in particular?
Thanks @"PaulAllenIsInLondon". Does anyone else have any thoughts?
Of course Purdue is a good place, and they offer you fulltime. I don't think evening MBA counts, especially for switchers.
Location could be an issue, but that depends. I used to passby West Lafayette on my way to somewhere in Indiana, it took around 2 hrs from Chicago, not that far, right?
Anyway good luck.
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