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Originally Posted by PorschePilot
But the real advise is. that unless you go to an ivy league business school, most MBA's are virtually equal. Is a check mark on your career to check off.
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This is not quite true. It is that there is a caste system of B schools, just like law schools, but it is very wrong to say that all non-Ivys are the same. There are many more levels of schools than just Ivy and non-Ivy. The classes of schools range from the Ivys to not worth the paper the diploma is printed on. Here is a short guide. The top level of B schools are the prestige schools. Those are the schools where people smile and nod in pleasant suprise when you saywhere you went. As in: Oh. Harvard. Next are the large, well known state schools or well established private schools. Think Uiversity of Wisconsin, Ohio State, ASU, etc. Below that are AACSB accredited schools that aren't otherwise unique. Below that is everyone else.
Prestige schools open doors that are closed to others. Second tier schools will get you in almost everything an Ivy would, but they don't have the prestige. Lots of big companies will recruit from the local big state school that is nearest their headquarters Minneapolis has quite a few Fortune 100 companies. They recruit primarily from the U of Minnesota as much as the Ivys. Third tier schools are for people who need an MBA, but can't go to a higher level school. They are best suited for someone who needs an MBA from anywhere to get into management or a kid who is willing to work harder after graduating to get good jobs.
Fourth tier schools are no good to anyone, as far as I can tell. Maybe they qualify you if your current employer says you'll get promoted if you get an MBA - any MBA, but no one really recruits from places like that to hire people for their MBA training. If they get hired out of a school like that it's for their other skills plus the MBA.
Golden Gate isn't even AACSB accredited. That means no company with serious hiring criteria will consider an MBA from there to be a degree. They simply won't recognize it as an MBA. Unless your employer says that you need an MBA from anywhere to advance, and they OK GG, I wouldn't consider it for any reason. It just isn't a school that potential employers are likely to recognize as having granted an MBA. To them, an MBA from a non-accredited program is the same as not having a degree at all.