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I think it depends on what you have to give up, and/or, where you are at in life, to get the MBA.

The Total pay package (1st link) list a Duke grad at $114,000 (2008 dollars). But doesn't say what location.

In contrast if you have an MBA from Alabama you can earn $94,000(salary) in Alabama (2005 dollars).

My thoughts have always been that the individual will make the degree, not the other way around. However, initially the better the school the better the starting opportunity.

some other good reads:

http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/mba/compensation.asp

http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_40/b3701023.htm

http://www.gmac.com/nr/rdonlyres/4314d9f3-b844-4ac0-b84c-86798d74ddce/0/rr0613_mbasalary.pdf

http://www.gmac.com/gmac/NewsandEvents/GMNews/2008/Nov/AlumniSurvey.htm?Page=2

A friend of mine is a Northwestern grad and he does very well (as in exceeds the salary listed), but he started work in New York, then to Chicago and finally settled in the south. He manages projects for a large real estate developer in North Carolina.

 

Well, for example, my wife's salary increased by almost 50% during the program and doubled (to well over six figures) when she changed jobs following the program. I've seen good increases in income during and after the program, but in my case, the real question would be what was the ROI to my employer, since they paid for my degree. And in my case, at least, I'd say the value has been outstanding - one, they have been able to retain me, the senior IT staffer in the firm) for an additional 4 years (and counting) when I had originally resigned to enter a full-time on-campus MBA, and two, I used a data modeling technique I learned in our advanced marketing classes to refine my company's internal credit models, which has increased our customer satisfaction and saved us much more than the program cost my firm.

I am well aware than anecdotes do not equal data, and I'm sure you can find someone who feels that the cost of the Fuqua MBA wasn't worth it. If that's the case, it probably wasn't the right program for them in the first place. Are the Duke EMBA program expensive? Without a doubt, but a program doesn't have to be cheap to be a great value. For me, and most of my fellow alumni, the experience was worth the cost. It was as close as I could reasonably get to the full-time experience without having to leave my employer for a year or more, and that was very important to me.

 

That's pretty funny and ironic!

 

I guess you are right because I also heard that the Law school issues all master's degrees in Latin but I still don't get the point. Why?

 

Because it used to be believed that an educated person should know Latin.

 

True and sadly in the United States you barely have to read, speak, and write the English language. That however is a debate for a separate thread.

*EDIT* Edited for my glaring spelling error.

 

or correctly.....