{"id":7421,"date":"2017-05-25T21:50:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T01:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stratusadmissionscounseling.com\/?p=7421"},"modified":"2021-03-08T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T22:24:16","slug":"mbanalysis-blog-size-matter-getting-mba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stratusadmissionscounseling.com\/blog\/mbanalysis-blog-size-matter-getting-mba\/","title":{"rendered":"MBAnalysis Blog: Does &#8220;Size Matter&#8221; When Getting an MBA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>To view an up-to-date version of this post, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stratusadmissionscounseling.com\/blog\/does-size-matter-with-mba-programs\/\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"post-summary\">When asked why one business school is not like the other, most applicants will talk about things like scores, job placement, industries that grads go into, location, weather, and a few other things. What prospective applicants are less likely to mention is class size.<\/p>\n<p>This is always surprising to me, because out of all the criteria for choosing a business school, this is where you see the greatest difference from school to school.<\/p>\n<p>In the extreme, of all the top schools, <strong>HBS<\/strong> is the largest with some 934 students in your class, while little ol\u2019 <strong>Berkeley-Haas<\/strong> has 252. For the top ten schools, the average is ~500; while for the top 20 schools the average creeps down even lower.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a few surprises there. Did you know that <strong>NYU Stern<\/strong> has 390 students per class making it lower than average; while <strong>Columbia Business School<\/strong> is about double at 776? (For me, NYU has always felt so much bigger. I think this perception has a lot to do with the fact that Columbia, overall, is a much smaller university than NYU. For those not familiar, New York University has ~26,000 undergraduates; while Columbia has a paltry ~6,000 undergraduates.)<\/p>\n<p>So how does this manifest? Given their scale, schools like <strong>HBS<\/strong>, <strong>Columbia<\/strong> and <strong>Wharton<\/strong> (851 per class), are \u201cbig enough to be small.\u201d This means that there are enough people there to support every interest, both personal and professional, you may have. For example, Wharton has a chocolate club, a cocktail club, a cigar club (do we see a theme), and just given the size of the school, this means the clubs have a lot of people in each.<\/p>\n<p>For <strong>Haas<\/strong>, <strong>Tuck<\/strong> (285 students), and <strong>Cornell<\/strong> (279 students), even if they have a chocolate club, a cocktail club, or a cigar club, there is a strong chance only three of you will attend the meetings, and likely you will be the same people at every club. (As an aside, I had an applicant who wrote on his Cornell application that it was his intention to start a cocktail club when he gets there. I am not saying that the Cornell adcom is filled with whiskey aficionados but he is starting there in the fall.)<\/p>\n<p>In short, at a large school, you will find more fellow students interested in what you are interested in, no matter how niche.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the flip side is that the large schools are \u201cbig enough to be too big.\u201d The reality is that at some of these really large schools, students graduate without knowing all of their classmates. It is not unusual for HBS graduates to talk about how close they are to the 90 folks in their section, while only knowing a small portion of the rest of the class.<\/p>\n<p>A subtler point: at really large schools you have the chance of finding a lot of people just like you, which means that you don\u2019t have to spend as much time with people not like you. For example, if you\u2019re from Israel, at these big schools you may only hang out with other Israelis; while at these other schools you are forced to basically hang out with everyone.<\/p>\n<p>This simply doesn\u2019t happen at schools like <strong>Kellogg<\/strong> (474 students), <strong>MIT<\/strong> (409), or <strong>Stanford<\/strong> (417). At these schools, you really will get to know everyone \u2013 not saying you will like everyone, but you will get to know everyone.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, a big or small class size should be an important consideration; a consideration that most applicants don\u2019t take into account. My only advice is to consider it when applying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To view an up-to-date version of this post, click here.\u00a0 When asked why one business school is not like the other, most applicants will talk about things like scores, job placement, industries that grads go into, location, weather, and a few other things. 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