Duke vs. Northwestern MMSS + Kellogg Certificate

mustangman
Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:14:35 +0000

Many people responded to my post, wow. Did not mean to be so inflammatory. I seemed to think “lackluster” was, well, a lackluster word. You say Kellogg and Fuqua are top 5 business ed. that is all great, but i’m going to defend myself here. those rankings are presumably for MBA education? Kellogg doesn’t have a program for undergrad, which is why i pointed towards northwestern’s dim(mer than wharton) prospects for a raw business grad. there are the various programs, to which, yes i am an applicant. Let me explain here. I think northwestern is a great university, especially one to gain a broad education. they are committed to engaging their students in the liberal arts and thus shy away from the raw undergrad business plan (which is specifically what i prefer since biz ed is very limiting in some respects, plus who really wants to spend the best four years of their life and 50k a year to learn how to do accounting). unlike programs at virginia, texas and wharton, you get an econ degree and the huffy puffy certificates. so as @bluedog said, northwestern grads get great prospects in chicago but responding to dongmong, he wants the nyc job. duke may have an edge there. that’s not to discredit the great job opps there (charles schwab, geneva, etc). both are great, if he wants to make it to nyc, i stand by duke as a better choice.