I got my MBA there. It's a great program and it's a top 25 school for business.

MBA - No.

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Anonymous wrote:Will probably drop out of the T25, and replaced with Georgia Tech and maybe Vanderbilt. Atlanta and the rest of the southern schools will continue to rise.

Georgia Tech?

Get serious.

Gatech is ranked right behind Georgetown
Look at the rankings. Also, I heard Georgetown is going through some issues.

Georgetown is fairly prestigious, not sure that people care about much else, least of all a DCUM post about what DCUM thinks. Doubtful there are any significant "issues".

Georgetown undergrad, law center and medical school are prestigious. Other programs … not so much.

Strivers who couldn’t get into Georgetown undergrad who want to confer GU undergrad’s expensive, selective and snooty branding, even though nobody with a pulse gets rejected from the degree mill MBA programs.

In DC Georgetown EMBA is a mix of executives and people w enviable careers that just want to tick a box, maybe 25%, then the rest are federal workers or georgetown employees or people that want to pivot. I did the Georgetown emba but if I was younger and didn’t have a family I wouldn’t have done the regular MBA at georgetown. I got 99% on my GMAT and Ivy undergrad, so I would’ve gone somewhere better. I just needed to tick a box.

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Anonymous wrote:Will probably drop out of the T25, and replaced with Georgia Tech and maybe Vanderbilt. Atlanta and the rest of the southern schools will continue to rise.

Georgia Tech?

Get serious.

Gatech is ranked right behind Georgetown
Look at the rankings. Also, I heard Georgetown is going through some issues.

Georgetown is fairly prestigious, not sure that people care about much else, least of all a DCUM post about what DCUM thinks. Doubtful there are any significant "issues".

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Anonymous wrote:Will probably drop out of the T25, and replaced with Georgia Tech and maybe Vanderbilt. Atlanta and the rest of the southern schools will continue to rise.

Georgia Tech?

Get serious.

Gatech is ranked right behind Georgetown
Look at the rankings. Also, I heard Georgetown is going through some issues.

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Anonymous wrote:In and of itself, no

It’s really best for working professionals in dc who need to check a box to move up in their org

A lot of feds, military and DC-based consultants pursue advanced degrees for free. Georgetown is the best MBA in the region, so that’s where many go.

Which agency or program pays for feds to get an MBA for free? I would love to do this but I'm not sure how!

Anonymous wrote:I feel like people are trying to equate 20 years experience and an executive MBA to four years experience and an MBA. The reality is if you have 20 years of experience it is the experience that gives you credibility in the job market, not your EMBA. If you have four years experience it is the MBA. The EMBA is less rigorous, HOWEVER it is also true that those individual that have 20 years of experience also bring a lot of benefits when job hunting.

At U Penn-Wharton, Chicago-Booth, & Northwestern-Kellogg, the EMBA courses are the same as the MBA courses.

EMBA students do homework and group projects just like MBA students, but at a higher level due to more years of work experience--especially at the manager & executive level.

Anonymous wrote:Then why will a company spend $200,000 plus salary and lodging for an employee to get an EMBA?

Business prof here. Some people find themselves with 10 years experience and limited education. Somebody managing a family business is a classic example. Sometimes companies want to give someone a promotion, and this degree is a reward, preparation, and signal for more responsibility. Sometimes a company is planning to limit their career, and the degree is a reward for past service.

The MBA is not a very technical degree today. Nevertheless, good young students have skills with spreadsheets, statistics, programming, data management, and financial or marketing analysis. They can learn more specialized skills on the job. But you don't expect this from somebody who studied in his thirties. This older student missed all the technical stuff a decade earlier.

Exec Ed students spend a lot of time networking over "free" coffee and muffins. They don't have much time for homework. Exec Ed alumni are enthusiastic about the school. They say good things, and come back to hire future graduates. And they don't need help finding a job. Yes, the degree is expensive. But ignorance is also expensive, especially when making important business decisions.

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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?

Typically, an executive MBA is more prestigious than just a regular MBA for youngsters with just a couple of years of post-undergraduate degree work experience.

Actually, it’s just the opposite, I see an executive mba as more of an honorary degree. That one is definitely part time or online, and given to people who have already made it to the C suite or senior leadership. The full-time MBAs usually have around 5 years of work experience and actually have to do work in their classes.

Reasonable opinion for one who lacks actual knowledge, but I disagree. Regular full-time MBAs are for those with 2 to 5 years of post-undergraduate degree work experience; Executive MBAs typically require at least 10 years of post-undergraduate work experience and 5 years work experience as a manager or above. all executive MBAs are cohort based and are designed to be part-time as most or usually all participants are working while enrolled in an EMBA program.

Regular MBA candidates would be lost in an EMBA program. Regular MBAs are at the kiddie stage with respect to management know-how and experience.

No. Executive MBAs are NOT prestigious.

Agree 100%

Then why will a company spend $200,000 plus salary and lodging for an employee to get an EMBA?

I feel like people are trying to equate 20 years experience and an executive MBA to four years experience and an MBA. The reality is if you have 20 years of experience it is the experience that gives you credibility in the job market, not your EMBA. If you have four years experience it is the MBA. The EMBA is less rigorous, HOWEVER it is also true that those individual that have 20 years of experience also bring a lot of benefits when job hunting.

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Anonymous wrote:Only in person non-executive MBAs mean something. The online MBAs are cash cows for the institutions. The Executive MBAs are cash cows for the institutions.

Prestigious MBAs:
UPenn Wharton
Harvard
Stanford
MIT
Chicago
Northwestern
Columbia
Yale
NYU
Dartmouth
Oxford
Insead
LSE

That's it folks!

The most prestigious MBA degree programs are:

Stanford, Harvard, & Wharton

Chicago & Northwestern

MIT

Columbia, Yale, INSEAD, NYU, & Dartmouth

LSE & Oxford

Agree with minor tweaks to your prestigious MBA list:
Tier 1: Stanford, Harvard, Wharton UPenn [ultimate bragging rights]
Tier 2: MIT [king of quant]
Tier 3: Chicago, Northwestern [USNWR wrong as 1, 2 more appropriately here seems like USNWR tends to elevate these 2 two]
Tier 4: Columbia, Yale, INSEAD, NYU, Dartmouth, LSE, Oxford [Still great, some might put the European schools in Tier 3]

I would agree with this.

But more generally, if you are not going to one of these schools in 2024, I'm not sure an MBA is worth it. Not even at Georgetown.

And everyone knowns an "Executive MBA" is resume filler.

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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?

Typically, an executive MBA is more prestigious than just a regular MBA for youngsters with just a couple of years of post-undergraduate degree work experience.

This is false.

this is true at GU.

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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?

Typically, an executive MBA is more prestigious than just a regular MBA for youngsters with just a couple of years of post-undergraduate degree work experience.

This is false.