Pros and cons of a 1-year MBA

December 4, 2012 by EssaySnark

If you want to get an MBA, there’s certainly a lot to like about a 1-year option – mostly, the fact that it’s over in one year. If you’re not a huge fan of going to school and studying and, like, learning stuff, then this is indeed a pretty big selling point. Plus there’s the…

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TY says

December 4, 2012 at 5:45 pm

Does this mean that you think that employers prefer American MBA programs to European ones? How can INSEAD have such a good reputation when it distills what takes 22 months at Harvard down to 10 months? Is there no hope for those of us who just submitted our INSEAD apps?
- essaysnark says
  
  December 4, 2012 at 6:09 pm
  
  “Our discussion today focuses primarily on this accelerated 1-year MBA option that a few American schools are starting to embrace”
  
  1. This post is comparing the new 1Y options to the standard two-year program offered at the same school. And, again, we’re talking about American schools.
  2. If you’re asking do American employers prefer the American bschools: Of course, only because they’re local, and more familiar, and importantly, it’s much easier/cheaper for them to recruit domestically. For hopefully obvious reasons, there’s not nearly as many American companies recruiting at INSEAD than at the schools we’re discussing. (OK in case it’s not obvious: There’s a lot more Americans graduating from American schools; anyone recruited from a European school is more likely to have visa issues etc. Not a showstopper but definitely more time/expense involved for the recruiter.) That doesn’t mean that employers prefer an American MBA over an INSEAD MBA in terms of quality of the graduate. But again, this is not what we were discussing today.
  3. Shouldn’t you have been asking these questions before you applied?
  - TY says
    
    December 7, 2012 at 1:35 pm
    
    Of course I have been asking myself this for ages, but it is a really hard question to answer since the companies I am interested in don’t rank MBA programs. That would make it much easier for me to rank my career prospects at each school. 🙁