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Continue reading...($) ROI and the MBA
This perhaps snarkier-than-standard post from several years back is worth reblahgging just as a way to maybe open things up in how you’re looking at the MBA and what you’re hoping to do with the next few years of your life. As with most everything here on the blahg, it’s heavy on the opinion, so […]
Continue reading...Dang this sh!t’s expensive!
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 $111,000 . JUST FOR THE FIRST YEAR. That’s a 50% increase from 2007, where the […]
Continue reading...How valuable is that MBA?
There are plenty of ways to evaluate ROI on an MBA, the most obvious being to look at your potential post-MBA salary compared to where you’re at now. There are plenty of intangibles associated with graduate business education too of course. The GMAC researchers put out a survey of bschool alumni every year to try […]
Continue reading...($) “Is my school f-cked?”
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...
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An early conversation you need to have with yourself.
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 […]
Continue reading...A Tale of Two Bschools
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. […]
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