Cornell MBA
I met an alumni of Cornell’s one year MBA program. It’s designed for people with advanced degrees like PhDs and Master’s, etc. Here’s a quick comparison between the 1 and 2 year programs.
On the surface it looks good, save yourself one year of tuition and opportunity cost (~$100k+), and get the same degree those suckers doing the 2 year program get…right?
But after thinking about it some more… a one year program, while efficient for older people who simply need to get an extra degree (avg age 29), is probably not the best for someone like me (age 23). Think about it, the day you step on campus you will need to start recruiting for a full time job. On top of that, you’ll be bogged down by 2 years of coursework thats condensed into 12 months and you won’t have a summer to do an internship. I am not so sure you’ll have that much time for relationship building and networking and doing all those extracurriculars that MBA’s are supposed to do.
Anyways, this is for down the line, need to get my work experience first - but yeah, looks like I will be doing a conventional 2 year program down the road.