We’re not exactly advocating this as an actual strategy for selecting your MBA programs to target. But it’s something to consider! It’s certainly more practical and intelligent (yes we said it) than using rankings as the priority tool to choose where to apply. If a top MBA program has a special scholarship fund earmarked only […]
Continue reading...($) Post-MBA career trends at Kellogg
Or likely at most top American MBA programs over the past five years. This post focuses on Kellogg mainly because their employment reports are detailed enough on this particular dimension to do the analysis. They’re also a solid general management program which attracts employers of all stripes. They continue to send graduates into the traditional […]
Continue reading...So you want to change the world.
OK cool! That’s a noble inclination. And you think being a Product Manager at Facebook will let you do that? . . . [letting that sink in] . . . Nothing wrong with being a Product Manager at Facebook. However, putting that career goal in the same essay with “I want to make a […]
Continue reading...($) The healthcare MBA: Which business schools are best?
After getting to the end of that very long post on healthcare careers out of bschool, we realized that we didn’t even manage to talk about which MBA programs are best for healthcare. So that’s what we’ll do today. The obvious powerhouse names that offer specialized business education in healthcare through their MBA programs are:...
($) The MBA and a healthcare career
We’ve written before about the seemingly ever-increasing need for talent in healthcare in the U.S. and even gone so far as to say that if you want to go where the jobs are, go into healthcare after your MBA — but we recently realized that dang, that post was back in 2013, and that’s a...
($) essay critique! Tuck career goals
Hey Brave Supplicants! We’ve had a few submissions of essays since the Thanksgiving holiday and we’re going to try and get a few more of these free website critiques out to all of you who are waiting. There’s also the Crowd-Sourced Essay Review forums which we’ve been known to pop in on from time to...
($) “Should I apply to Wharton’s Health Care Management track?”
Well this ain’t so bad; this BSer sent in their question for free help less than a month ago! And here we are answering it! (We’re kidding. We don’t like keeping people waiting this long. Many of you sender-inners gave up and actually purchased essay reviews which is always an option, especially at this crazy...
If you want to go where the MBA jobs are, go into healthcare.
Any long-time reader of this blahg will know that EssaySnark is not fond of those trying to game the system. When you come up with the goals you pitch to the adcom, they need to be REAL goals. LEGIT goals. THINGS YOU’RE REALLY GONNA DO goals. That being said, sometimes people come to us clueless […]
Continue reading...healthcare MBAs
We answered a Brave Supplicant’s question on one of those forums recently, and thought we may as well cross-post here. To paraphrase, the question was, Which top schools are highly associated with pharmaceutical/biotechnology? Here’s what we said: The only bschool we’ve heard of that specifically offers a “biotech” MBA specialization is Cambridge Judge. Lots of […]
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