Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 23:56     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
No…too many total clowns coming out of there
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 23:39     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I would argue that it is nothing special. Mind you it's not bad, does rank top 25, and seems to have decent empllent outcomes. That being said, it is not as good as alternatives, and given the high cost (both actual and opportunity cost) I don't think it's worth going there, especially if you can do better. The actual costs is 150k and in terms of outcomes base salaries seems to be 138k (which ain't amazing). Frankly in my view an MBA is not really worth it if you

If you are asking about prestige, no the MBA from there is not prestigious. The MBA acceptance rate there is 50% which is ridiculously high...


Really to me the massive redflag is that admission rate coupled with average salary upon graduation. Admitting 50% seems just like them treating the program as a cash cow (which it probably is)


Georgetown has put a lot of money into their MBA program. It is one of those "name schools" that is finally making more of an effort in the space (Yale is the other one that is doing even more). The GU name recognition (rather than just McD) will help you more elsewhere compared to more regionally known schools like Rice and Indiana.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 23:14     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:I would argue that it is nothing special. Mind you it's not bad, does rank top 25, and seems to have decent empllent outcomes. That being said, it is not as good as alternatives, and given the high cost (both actual and opportunity cost) I don't think it's worth going there, especially if you can do better. The actual costs is 150k and in terms of outcomes base salaries seems to be 138k (which ain't amazing). Frankly in my view an MBA is not really worth it if you

If you are asking about prestige, no the MBA from there is not prestigious. The MBA acceptance rate there is 50% which is ridiculously high...


Really to me the massive redflag is that admission rate coupled with average salary upon graduation. Admitting 50% seems just like them treating the program as a cash cow (which it probably is)
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 22:11     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


My spoiled niece had her retired dad do most of her online MBA work. They are a total farce. And I believe Georgetown has all sorts of online and weekend MBA programs, so who knows who actually did a “real” one. Credentialism has jumped the shark. Too many nitwits with too many bogus degrees.


I think it is relatively easy to differentiate between a full MBA at the business school and abbreviated MBAs at extension schools. I imagine most schools are quite clear about notifying students about how to describe their “degree”. At least at Georgetown they were and I was in the regular full program.

I would never assume an executive MBA had any relationship to a full MBA. It doesn’t make a full MBA useless just because a condensed versions, which can be differentiated, exist.


Doesn’t Georgetown offer both an executive MBA (or profession development / night school) as well as a real MBA?

Are they really much different? Are they perceived differently by employers?
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 22:01     Subject: Re:Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:The M-7 group of MBA programs are the most prestigious (Harvard, Penn-Wharton, Stanford, Chicago-Booth, Northwestern-Kellogg, MIT-Sloan, & Columbia Business School). Next most prestigious are Dartmouth-Tuck, NYU-Stern, Michigan-Ross, UC-Berkeley, Virginia-Darden, & Duke-Fuqua. Yale SOM is getting attention as well.

The current 2023-2024 US News Best MBA Program rankings are:

1) Chicago-Booth
2) Northwestern-Kellogg
3) U Penn-Wharton
4) MIT-Sloan
5) Harvard

6) Dartmouth-Tuck
6) Stanford-GSB
8) Michigan-Ross
8) Yale-SOM
10) NYU-Stern

11) Columbia Business School
11) UCal-Berkeley
11) Duke-Fuqua
14) Virginia-Darden

15) Cornell-Johnson
15) USC
17) Emory
18) CMU-Tepper
19) UCLA
20) U Texas at Austin
20) U Washington-Foster

22) Indiana-Kelley
22) UNC
24) Georgetown-McDonough
24) Rice-Jones

26) Georgia Tech
27) U Texas at Dallas
27) U Rochester-Simon
27) Vanderbilt-Owen
30) Notre Dame

31) U Georgia-Terry
31) U Minnesota
33) Michigan State U
33) SMU-Cox
35) ASU-Carey
35) BYU
37) Penn State
37) WashUStL-Olin
37) UC-Irvine
40) U Florida
40) U Wisconsin

42) U Maryland

45) William & Mary

Even though US News currently ranks Chicago & Northwestern as the top 2 MBA programs, most consider Harvard, Stanford, & Penn-Wharton to be the top 3 MBA programs with Chicago & Northwestern rounding out the top 5 MBA programs.


only interest in number 1 chicago booth.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 21:50     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
Georgetown has an MBA program?
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 21:37     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
So sad to see people still thinking college prestige matters. Take a look at the leadership teams of almost any US company and you'll stop obsessing over which college will get you the best job. It's the individual that matters.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 21:25     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
I would argue that it is nothing special. Mind you it's not bad, does rank top 25, and seems to have decent empllent outcomes. That being said, it is not as good as alternatives, and given the high cost (both actual and opportunity cost) I don't think it's worth going there, especially if you can do better. The actual costs is 150k and in terms of outcomes base salaries seems to be 138k (which ain't amazing). Frankly in my view an MBA is not really worth it if you

If you are asking about prestige, no the MBA from there is not prestigious. The MBA acceptance rate there is 50% which is ridiculously high...
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 20:40     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


My spoiled niece had her retired dad do most of her online MBA work. They are a total farce. And I believe Georgetown has all sorts of online and weekend MBA programs, so who knows who actually did a “real” one. Credentialism has jumped the shark. Too many nitwits with too many bogus degrees.


I think it is relatively easy to differentiate between a full MBA at the business school and abbreviated MBAs at extension schools. I imagine most schools are quite clear about notifying students about how to describe their “degree”. At least at Georgetown they were and I was in the regular full program.

I would never assume an executive MBA had any relationship to a full MBA. It doesn’t make a full MBA useless just because a condensed versions, which can be differentiated, exist.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 18:41     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
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?


Wall Street Journal has an article out today. All MBA's (particularly from the Ivys) are struggling to get jobs.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 18:36     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
I wonder how many of the people commenting on this thread even have an MBA. I doubt many do.

Many graduate degrees can be valuable. I know an MBA degree isn’t the same as an MD for an orthopedic surgeon or a Doctor of Philosophy, but it was still valuable for me. You can question the prestige of it, sure. But it wasn’t a waste, for me.

Everyone else, especially the non-MBAs, are just running their mouths.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 18:06     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
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


You pay big bucks for an MBA to broaden your network and maybe a career pivot. Georgetown MBA seems full of email job consultants and paper pushing bureaucrats. That low watt orbit is not going to help you with anything.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 18:01     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
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.


My spoiled niece had her retired dad do most of her online MBA work. They are a total farce. And I believe Georgetown has all sorts of online and weekend MBA programs, so who knows who actually did a “real” one. Credentialism has jumped the shark. Too many nitwits with too many bogus degrees.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 17:30     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Pp here - that said, I agree with other posters who have said their gtown mba helped them

Because even in 2023 it’s worth it if you are a dc professional with a solid job who plans on staying in dc

I don’t mind gtown mba program because i don’t think it’s trying to be something it isn’t

It’s the preeminent mba program in a top 6 city



Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 16:42     Subject: Is a Georgetown MBA considered prestigious?
It's ok not its not going to open any doors beyond just having an mba