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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My MBA may be considered easy by DCUM (although I found it challenging) but it has served me well in my career and the return on investment is enormous. I went to a top 10 SLAC and then a top 10 B-school. I found undergrad to be easier although I was not a business major (not an option at my SLAC).[/quote]

I also went to a highly-ranked SLAC, majored in history and went on to law school.  Recently, at my class reunion, I went to the reception for alumnae/i with MBAs (because my old roommate has an MBA and because my son, who's studying engineering, is thinking about getting an MBA after working for a few years).  I knew that many of my classmates had gone to business school, but I thought most of them were econ majors who worked in finance in between college and biz school.  I was surprised by how many of them actually had majored in the humanities -- though I probably shouldn't have been because the mindset at SLACs is that you are there to learn how to think, how to question, how to research, how to analyze and synthesize data, and how to write or communicate your conclusions in other ways.  Students at SLACs know that they can go on to do just about anything after getting a sound educational foundation.

Cutting away  from this PSA for liberal arts education and returning to the topic at hand . . .

From chatting with folks at this reception (anecdotal evidence, I know, but evidence nonetheless), it seems that for at least some of the humanities majors who pursued MBAs, the most challenging (only challenging?) aspect of biz school was getting through the quant material.  Beyond that, they didn't find the MBA curriculum that difficult or intellectually stimulating.  Instead of academics, the focus was on networking.  In fact, one classmate who has a JD (from the same top 5 school I went to) and an MBA (also top 5 school) told me that he thought the main difference culturally between law school and biz school is that in law school everyone wants to be the smartest person in the room so you're all competing with each other, while in biz school the objective is to have the most successful network so you're all trying to support each other.    [/quote]

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