Undergrad vs grad

[Anonymous]

Elite colleges have constrained enrollment at the undergraduate level (dorms, community, tradition). Those institutions will sell a masters to anyone with a BA and standing to take out unlimited Grad PLUS loans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On average which degree matters more value if taken from a top school?

Undergrad. Most master’s degrees are cash cows.

[Anonymous]

See the WSJ article about Columbia & NYU grad programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:See the WSJ article about Columbia & NYU grad programs.

Columbia is notorious for worthless graduate programs so that someone can say they have an Ivy League degree law and MBA are a different story.

[Anonymous]

I think college names matter for first job. Not so much after 5 years.

[Anonymous]

Terminal degree matters more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both. There was just a story about how attending a top law school doesn’t “cure” having a less prestigious college on your resume when seeking SCOTUS clerkships. That’s an extreme example, but still.

Does it matter for private law jobs?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All of them.

Not in the case of one who earns a law degree and wants to practice law and not the case if one earns an MBA from an elite MBA program in order to switch fields.

I have a joint mba/jd from a top school. You’re not telling me anything I don’t know.

Jerk will always be a jerk no matter how many degrees

Truth.

[Anonymous]

My two cents:

For JD, MD, & (most) PhD, grad school matters more.

For MBA, grad school *probably* matters more, though not if one does a "check-box" MBA for internal promotion purposes, etc.

For most MA programs, undergrad matters more. Many of these programs are little more than ways for top schools to earn easy cash, and many are not especially selective. Many know this, making several MA programs less informative as to a candidate than the undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My two cents:

For JD, MD, & (most) PhD, grad school matters more.

For MBA, grad school *probably* matters more, though not if one does a "check-box" MBA for internal promotion purposes, etc.

For most MA programs, undergrad matters more. Many of these programs are little more than ways for top schools to earn easy cash, and many are not especially selective. Many know this, making several MA programs less informative as to a candidate than the undergrad.

Think it's a mixed bag for MA programs. I went to one that was not terribly selective when I attended, but it is starting to be. And I use the skills from it every day on the job vs. a top school MBA, where I could learned the same stuff on Coursera for free. Plus the MA program might have a higher acceptance rate than undergrad because the pool applying is many times smaller and self-selective.

[Anonymous]

At grad level, pool to top colleges is self selective. People research acceptance rate, required GRE/GMAT/LSAT/MCAT scores and cost of attendance etc and apply to programs they want. Its not like undergrad where majority applies to a couple of top schools on a limb without stats or money or knowing which major.

[Anonymous]

Top schools cost a fortune, there isn't lots of free financial aid like there is for their undergrad programs.