MSU 還是 UIUC??

[ning1203]

最近收到了MSU跟UIUC的入取
覺得很難抉擇，兩間學校在FT的排名差不多，不過MSU在BW跟US NEWS上比較高．當然UIUC在台灣比較有名．
不知各位有何建議?

[Opeman]

恭喜！

建議樓主分享一下你的背景與career goal 作為版友給妳意見的參考

[ning1203]

希望的major是finance．
short term career goal可能是financial consulting或corproate finance吧．
聽說MSU收到的financial recruit不是非常多．是真的嗎?
UIUC雖然在Chicago近郊，可是因為競爭對手是U of Chicago跟Kellogg是否工作也不是很好找?

[Jason Lee]

I don’t know what your definition for “suburb” is, but a 217.6 KM drive would not be short for me. That’s almost from Taipei to Chiayi City.

[butterfinger]

希望的major是finance．
short term career goal可能是financial consulting或corproate finance吧．
聽說MSU收到的financial recruit不是非常多．是真的嗎?
UIUC雖然在Chicago近郊，可是因為競爭對手是U of Chicago跟Kellogg是否工作也不是很好找?

I don't know much about UIUC, so I'm making comments purely according to my experience with the Broad MBA, especially in Finance. Overall, the career service at the Broad MBA is good. I believe the CSC even pays more attention to international students. However, as you may know, MSU is a top SCM school rather than a strong finance one; thus, the Broad MBA is, in terms of career resources, relatively weak in Finance compared to in SCM. Both the number of recruiting companies and interview opportunities are less for Finance students than those for SCM majors, and they are relatively regional. However, from what I've observed, as long as you try "hard enough" and well prepare yourself (resume, pitch...), the odds for you to get enough interviews to locate an Finance offer are still pretty good. Then the issue is whether you can (or have the chance to) get exactly what you want (e.g. company, compensation, region…). If you have a list of companies that you definitely want to go, then you better make sure if they regularly recruit from the Broad MBA.

Most of the finance positions offered to the Broad MBAs are in Corporate Finance "at the corporate side", which means they might be more accounting-based at some level, depending on which function you are among the finance team. As for Consulting, we do have students get into Mckinsey but that's some extreme case that you don't wanna take it for your consideration. Most consulting positions are from IBM Consulting, Oracle Consulting, and other SCM-focused Consulting firms, and they do recruit international students with SCM or Finance or both concentrations.

Average Compensation is very competitive, considering the low tuition/living costs of the program. If you can get scholarship/GA/TA/Int'l tuition waiver, you can even spend less than NT$1 million for two years, not to mention with internship. Here (http://mba.msu.edu/careers/comp_salaries/salary.cfm) you can find the compensation data and recruiting companies for last few years in different industries/functions. My rough estimate for this year's average compensation is over $90,000 for all second-years. If you look at Chinese students (excluding ABC's) only, the number is even higher mainly due to SCM offers given by some big names (such as MSFT, Apple, Cisco) from the coasts, where living costs are much higher than most other regions in US. For Chinese students in Finance (not many actually), my guess is at the same level with the overall.

In sum, the CSC at the Broad MBA has a good reputation in placement; however, like many others have put it, it is still individual's responsibility to make his/her every effort to find a good job. When you go to the MBA and get occupied (or even overwhelmed) by all the readings, cases, team meetings, homesickness, and other s**t stuff, could you still be as determined as you are right now to develop your career in US?

Finally, congrats on your admissions to these two schools and welcome to the BigTen Family!