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As far as the likes of McKinsey, Goldman Sachs etc. are concerned, what's more impressive? PhD in Physics from Oxbridge + a bit of good breeding (joke), or an MBA from a top American university like Harvard?
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Harvard MBA is infinitely easier.
PhD from OxBridge if you want to do something quant or data science related. Harvard MBA for everything else.
Are you sure? My impression is that McKinsey & BCG love PhDs from the hard sciences.
Unless you want to spend a decade or more locked in a lab and never talk to a girl I would just get the MBA.
Plus you have a high liklihood of failing out and not making it to the PHD if you are not a math god and love physics.
Let's say that getting a physics PhD is more prestigious than a Harvard MBA to McKinsey & BCG. Even if that is the case, a Harvard MBA is still pretty damn prestigious and would set you up for a job at such a place really well. But if your goal is to work at a place like MBB, why in the hell would you spend 5 to 7 years of your life getting a PhD in arguably the most difficult subject? If a physics PhD is 10/10 prestige, a Harvard MBA is 9.9/10 prestige.
If you decide to get the PHD, let me know and I will gladly refer you to my Aerospace team. I love getting Referral dollars.
What kind of question is this? That's like saying what's better: a great steak or a nice suit. Both serve different purposes, pretty mutually exclusive and attract different jobs.
Oh god, this question. The PhD is harder, but Harvard is pretty fucking prestigious. No one is going to defer to you with a PhD.
And at the end of the day, money is prestige. The Harvard MBA will have a number of years gaining experience, making relationships and earning money. By the time you have your theoretical PhD, the Harvard MBA will have years on the street and the connections that go with it.
How many US Presidents went to Oxford?
Now how many went to Harvard?!?!?! THAT IS PRESTIGIOUS
To save everybody some self-induced stress, please know I am trolling
Bill Clinton.
Don't be a nerd, get your MBA...but both are very prestigious.
Work on other things.
Hit the gym, whiten your teeth, use retinol creme every night and inject yourself with HGH Peptides. Drink plenty of water. Don't hold in your farts, but don't be too loud about them either. Everything in moderation. Just win.
Thanks for the advice bro, I'm sure there's a psycho somewhere deep inside me I can drag out
What the hell is an HGH Peptide? At what age should it become relevant?
yeh mate, I think so too.
Get your MBA and stop being a little bitch about prestige
This HAS to be the only place on the internet where people will seriously argue over something as trivially subjective as this.
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