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Mediocre MBA vs. mediocre JD |
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That is not true |
| Date Posted: |
01/05/2001 |
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The stuff you hear on message boards about schools below the top 14 tends to be a good bit overstated. Lots of people get good jobs from second and third tier law schools. If you graduate in the bottom half of your class from a second or third tier, you could have some initial difficulties in some markets in getting those first jobs, and in some locales could make only 40K a year to start. Ordinarily, though, your earning potential will be greater with a JD than with only a bachelor's in business. You are correct in part to analyze cost/benefit (100K tuition v. starting salary), but you have to include in your analysis long-term earning power, and it's hard to model that without a bit of extra ESP.
Similary, lots of people get good jobs from below-top-tier MBA schools. You can certainly find, though, lesser MBA grads in work that essentially is not that much more sophisticated than bachelor's level work.
Take a cruise over to the JD and MBA sections of usnews.com. Look in particular at the median starting salaries for grads of the JD and MBA programs. You can find programs across a wide gamut of earning levels across the various below first tier schools.
You note that you don't passionately love either option. Why don't you try to figure out what you might love at least a little bit?
Believe me, you meet a world of people who went to law school to make "good money" and then wished they had thought about more than money.
I'm not suggesting that earning power is unimportant--I'm suggesting that most folks can find a career path that offers both good money and something they will enjoy.
Don't believe all the scare stories you hear about second tier law schools or second tier b schools. This is a matter in which you need to do your own research--what do the numbers really show, not what negative anecdotes can one accumulate.
Best of fortune to you. |
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Graduating from a lower rank Bschools does not gets you interviews to top I-Banking. If you have connections then it may be a different story.
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