Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?

[Anonymous]

It's not M7.

[Anonymous]

Pp Georgetown mba here. It depends why you want to get your mba.

For me as a non business major undergrad, I actually needed to learn about accounting stats marketing finance m&a org behavior negotiations etc. People scoff like there’s no actual cure him an mba and it’s all networking, but it was a great education.

Also, I know it’s not Harvard but it’s not exactly University of Phoenix either. I distinguish more between full-time attendees of mba programs and part-time or online mba programs, because I definitely know my full time program was more intense than one where you only go 15-20 hours a week. There was no way I could have had a job and done my program.

[Anonymous]

No actual curriculum I mean.

[Anonymous]

Historically BusinessWeek/Bloomberg was the ranking of MBA programs that mattered, not USNWR. Maybe that's changed.

1) Stanford
2) Chicago
3) Dartmouth
4) Virginia
5) Columbia
6) Harvard
7) Northwestern
8) Pennsylvania
9) Michigan
10) Berkeley

Georgetown is #24.

Poets&Quants also creates an aggregated ranking.

1) Stanford
2) Harvard
3) Dartmouth
4) Columbia
5) Yale
6) Duke
7) Cornell
8) Virginia
9) Michigan
10) NYU

[Anonymous]

Georgetown is in the same tier as Cornell, CMU, Indiana. It's very much a regional player but does well in that region, if that makes sense

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Historically BusinessWeek/Bloomberg was the ranking of MBA programs that mattered, not USNWR. Maybe that's changed.

1) Stanford
2) Chicago
3) Dartmouth
4) Virginia
5) Columbia
6) Harvard
7) Northwestern
8) Pennsylvania
9) Michigan
10) Berkeley

Georgetown is #24.

Poets&Quants also creates an aggregated ranking.

1) Stanford
2) Harvard
3) Dartmouth
4) Columbia
5) Yale
6) Duke
7) Cornell
8) Virginia
9) Michigan
10) NYU

Poets & Quants rankings are ridiculous; Penn-Wharton is ranked at #31 while Chicago-Booth & Northwestern-Kellogg are ranked at #11 and #12 respectively. What a joke. Chicago-Booth, Northwestern-Kellogg, and Penn-Wharton are all Top 5 MBA programs in the real world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I personally consider a Georgetown BA and also a JD at the law center to be fairly prestigious credentials. But I don’t know anything about the GU MBA. How it is perceived locally and also in other major cities for those planning to relocate?

Is Georgetown Law really considered more prestigious than its MBA counterpart? I know it's technically considered a T14 (even though it has dropped out of the T14 for multiple non-consecutive years), but its outcomes aren't typically on par with their so-called T14 peer group. Cornell Law, for instance, typically ranked 13, sends close to 80% of its class into Big Law jobs (i.e. Cravath-scale-paying firms where 1st year associates make $250,000 a year). Georgetown Law, which graduates nearly 600 each year (compared to UChicago, Yale, or Stanford which each graduate less than 200 attorneys for each class), usually sends only half of their class into Big Law, and typically less prestigious firms (probably won't find too many Georgetown grads at Watchell or Sullivan & Cromwell).

A lot of Georgetown Law grads are interested in government/policy/nonprofit work. That likely accounts for the discrepancy in Big Law placement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I personally consider a Georgetown BA and also a JD at the law center to be fairly prestigious credentials. But I don’t know anything about the GU MBA. How it is perceived locally and also in other major cities for those planning to relocate?

It is a solid silver. I wouldn't brag about it, nor would I be embarrassed by it either.

[Anonymous]

I don't consider an MBA to be prestigious these days, regardless of the university. Everyone has one. They are as common as BA/BS degrees. Also, most MBA programs can now be completed fairly easily online even from prestigious universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't consider an MBA to be prestigious these days, regardless of the university. Everyone has one. They are as common as BA/BS degrees. Also, most MBA programs can now be completed fairly easily online even from prestigious universities.

Are you for real or a troll?
Who gives an s*** what you think?
Maybe you are right in the sense that only an MD or PhD (from a top school) is prestigious.
All other degrees and institutions are fungible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown is in the same tier as Cornell, CMU, Indiana. It's very much a regional player but does well in that region, if that makes sense

Tepper and Johnson are better than gtown if you are proactive in class selection

You can get better trading jobs out of tepper

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI even m7 mba’s are having issues in the job market right now

The mba market is really soft at present

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Saw that in WSJ today.

[Anonymous]

I always LOL at the phrasing of the OP question. Prestigious is subjective, and many people pursuing Top MBA programs have other criteria for selecting a specific school. If the purpose of the question is to see where the graduates end up working immediately after, it is easy enough to check the actual data.

According to their 2022 MBA report, these are just a few of the companies that hired at least 3 graduates within the former 3 years: Apple, Boston Consulting Group, Capital One, Deloitte, Chase, Santander, Uber, McKinsey, EY, PwC, Google, Goldman Sachs, etc.
https://issuu.com/georgetownmcdonough/docs/gtwn_mbaemploymentreport2022_final


Of course, this does not indicate how many were offered roles and turned them down, or how many returned to their current/previous employer if that employer enticed them to by financing the degree, or any other reason. I personally know people who ended up at tech companies over "prestigious" finance firms because of the 3x total compensation offered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't consider an MBA to be prestigious these days, regardless of the university. Everyone has one. They are as common as BA/BS degrees. Also, most MBA programs can now be completed fairly easily online even from prestigious universities.

LOL
I love you and your nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't consider an MBA to be prestigious these days, regardless of the university. Everyone has one. They are as common as BA/BS degrees. Also, most MBA programs can now be completed fairly easily online even from prestigious universities.

+1 like a certificate of completion