US Top-Ranked B-Schools: Do Size and Location Matter?. General Admissions.  

US Top-Ranked B-Schools: Do Size and Location Matter?

Yes, they do! If we speak about USA business schools, it is the case, because the size of a city and its location do matter.

Whereas the size of a city distinguishes employment’s specifics mostly, the location impacts the schools’ focus and inclinations:

DEPENDENCE ON A STATE LOCATION

Location

School’s Specifics

Business Schools

East Coast

Finance, Investment and Consulting due to availability of the largest financial institutions

Columbia, Stern, Ross, Harvard

West Coast

IT and Entrepreneurship/Start-Ups due to short distance to the Silicon Valley 

Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, Foster, Marshall

 

DEPENDENCE ON A CITY’S SIZE

Location

Employment’s Specifics

Business Schools

Metropolis
  1. Large global corporations
  2.  the highest level of competition
  3. Recruit yourself

Columbia, Stern, Berkeley, Harvard, Hult, Stanford, Chicago Booth

Small Town
  1. Local companies of small of medium size
  2. Low level of competition
  3. Employers find you

Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Babson College, BYU, WVU  

 

Small towns’ preference requires closer look to their local businesses’ concentration, so it’d be perfect to research a list of the companies nearby to understand, what kind of MBA graduates they would look for as their potential employees.

Metropolis adepts usually get a lot wider options of industries and their specifics. However, they should start monitoring their potential employers from their first day at business schools – to understand each company’s features, environment, culture and needs and to schedule appointments with their recruiters or HR managers beforehand..






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Author: Victoria Dudka, MBA Strategy Consultants Team Lead





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