Sunday, November 28, 2010

Ok, which degree is better? An MBA from Johns Hopkins or an MA in Management from an Ivy League School


Ok, which degree is better? An MBA from Johns Hopkins or an MA in Management from an Ivy League School?
I have a choice to attend both but I would like to know which degree would serve me better out there in the marketplace. Thanks
Higher Education (University +) - 2 Answers

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Why not the MBA from the Ivy League school, if you can get in there at all? Johns Hopkins' MBA program is in transition right now, and it hasn't had the greatest of reputations in the past. It is hard to know how easily they will be able to do what they want to do, given some of the university's restrictions. On the other hand, an MA isn't a normal management degree; my suspicion is that it would be something you would get from some liberal arts department, rather than from the business school at that school.


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Johns Hopkins is a great university -- but it is not known for business. You would be better off getting an MBA from any ranked business school instead of Johns Hopkins. If you really want to be in Baltimore -- University of Maryland would be a better choice. As for Ivy League schools -- any MA from an Ivy League school would be good. I wonder about the MA in Management, though. Six of the Ivy League schools have MBA programs -- which would be better than the MA. The other two (Princeton and Brown) don't have business schools. This makes me think that the MA program must be through the extension school rather than the business school. You would be better off getting an MBA from a ranked school than through an extension program at an Ivy League school. But you would not be better off getting an MBA from an unranked program like Johns Hopkins.

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