ROI

($) Pros and cons of a part-time MBA

February 25, 2019 by EssaySnark

Welp this was supposed to go live on Friday. Ooops. We reported last week how Chicago Booth assured a prospective applicant to their Weekends MBA program that recruiters see a part-time MBA the same as a full-time program, and we promised further discussion. If you have comments or questions to ask about part-time vs full-time...

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Dang this sh!t’s expensive!

June 8, 2018 by EssaySnark - Discusses Columbia, UCLA Anderson, Dartmouth Tuck Leave a Comment

The estimated first-year costs for a Columbia MBA have risen by over $40,000 in under ten years. That’s just for the first year of your MBA, which for this year’s entering class, is expected to set them back a cool $111,000 . JUST FOR THE FIRST YEAR. That’s a 50% increase from 2007, where the […]

($) ROI and the MBA

October 23, 2017 by EssaySnark

The MBA is a very expensive degree. Hopefully you’re aware of that already. The schools publish numbers on their sites about tuition and estimated costs, yet many applicants neglect to read those pages until after they’ve been admitted and are faced with the prospect of plunking down a deposit and looking at how they’re going...

How valuable is that MBA?

March 15, 2017 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

There are plenty of ways to evaluate ROI on an MBA, the most obvious being to look at your potential post-MBA salary compared to where you’re at now. There are plenty of intangibles associated with graduate business education too of course. The GMAC researchers put out a survey of bschool alumni every year to try […]

($) “Is my school f-cked?”

May 3, 2016 by EssaySnark

If you’re just joining us, then you may not know the tight focus of the EssaySnark blahg: We concern ourselves (obsessively so, some may say) with the admissions policies and practices of the top MBA programs in America, and to a lesser degree, those in Europe. “What,” you may wonder, “is defined as a ‘top...

An early conversation you need to have with yourself.

July 3, 2015 by EssaySnark 1 Comment

EssaySnark does not condone talking to yourself. People look at you weird when you do. (Not like we have any experience with that or anything.) Today however, even though it’s a long holiday here in the U.S., we thought we’d put up a post with a recommendation to do exactly that. Whether or not you’re […]

A Tale of Two Bschools

October 12, 2012 by EssaySnark - Discusses Penn State Smeal, Wharton Leave a Comment

Recently we’ve been talking about is the MBA worth it — the whole “is there a bubble?” thing is the perennial topic. It’s fun to bash the MBA when people like George Bush and Mitt Romney and Jon Corzine and Raj Rajaratam have them and Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and Richard Branson did/do not. […]