I was recently admitted into Columbia’s graduate school of business for my MBA. I also applied to a few other schools in the top ten, and have a good feeling about my chances of getting in. I would like your impression of Columbia Business School. Do you think it enjoys a reputation that is truly top-notch? How would you compare Columbia to, say, Harvard or Wharton’s MBA program?
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Congrats, Columbia is a top notch school. Harvard, Wharton, U of Chicago, Stanford, Carneige Mellon, M.I.T., Yale and University of Michigan are considered to be much better.
Congratulations! I suspect Columbia is more than enough to impress anyone on here, and should open plenty of doors for you in whatever your chosen field happens to be; plus, you’ll have your pick of internships in New York. No, I don’t think it has quite the reputation of Wharton or Harvard, but if you have the luxury of being able to pick at that level of selectivity, go with the school that’s the best fit for you.
I used to recruit for a firm that only hired from the top MBA programs. They, and I, preferred Harvard and Wharton to Columbia, to be honest. We also preferred Stern/MIT, Kellogg and Stanford. That does not mean that I actually dislike Columbia, but that it really depends on what industry you hope to enter when you graduate. Other companies could well have preferred Columbia. But ours was a manufacturing company, and we needed people with strong mfg/engineering/tech backgrounds. Those people tend to be at the schools I mentioned. Columbia, I’m thinking, would be a great fit for, say, finance. So look at yourself, determine what your own goals are, and see which schools are most attractive to people recruiting into that precise industry.
Absolutely. Columbia’s program is academically comparable to that of Harvard’s and Wharton’s, and the local job market that New York offers is truly unparalleled by any other city in the world. Columbia is the best business school in NYC, and will give you a truly elite education and job opportunities in one of the most dynamic job markets in the world.
However, when you’re talking about business school, the network is extremely important, and honestly, I would imagine that Wharton and Harvard’s networks are the best.
Globally, Columbia actually fares extremely well. If you want to study international business, Columbia is definitely the place for you.
