<p>More ranting: The 1%/10% figures CFB53B used MAY apply to Harvard business school, but NOT top CS programs. Getting a Harvard or Wharton MBA leads to $200k+ salaries, virtually unlimited access to venture capital, etc. Those schools train many of the top business leaders in the world. Their kids and their upcoming executives are your classmates. Not only that, but anyone, with any degree, can apply. That makes it overwhelmingly more competitive than a CS grad school, where a substantial amount of the pool of potential applicants don’t even want to go to grad school because the return on investment isn’t so high and they’d rather get paid right away.</p>
<p>Those top MBA programs are in every way an exception to the norm for most professional schools.</p>