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MBA required? |
| Message Name: |
it's once again necessary |
| Date Posted: |
12/14/2002 |
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Hi, can you tell me, is graduate school (presumably for an MBA) necessary for management consulting? I understand that undergrads are recruited by consulting firms, but is one expected to attend business school at some point (after a year or two or three, etc?), or can one be a consultant without ever having gone to business school?
If graduate school is in fact necessary, must one go for an MBA or do folks ever get other types of potentially applicable (econ, comp sci, etc.) degrees?
thanks,
mike |
| Message: |
Ignore Roseberry's troll. It's not an argument to even get into.
The fact is that at some point some advanced degree will be necessary. Back in the good-old-days (the late 90s), some people were promoted through w/o the MBA. That's changed and once again consulting firms expect you to get your MBA, if you don't have some other advanced professional degree (PhD, MD, JD, MA, etc.). The reason is that consultants sell expertise and intelligence. Page 2 of any pitch will detail the Partners working on a case, their degrees, and where they got them. Like it or not, an elite academic pedigree says a lot to potential clients.
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