More Nonsense About MBA Salaries

May 24, 2010 by  
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Business Week is adding suspicious fuel to the fire in the argument about the value of Business School.  Citing non-scientific, user-submitted salary data from Payscale is the first clue as to the dubious-ness of the massive salaries earned by MBAs from top business schools.  Second, even if the data were true, historical performance is no indicator of future success.  Just ask the MBAs from the Class of 2010.  Offers are way down and salaries are too. In the last month, we've received feedback regarding  job offers and salaries from contacts at MBA programs at UTexas-Austin, Yale, Babson, and Georgetown.  While this is not scientific data either, we've heard the same thing from all:  few job offers and much lower than... Read More »