lfeharri

Hi Socal members,

I'm finishing up grad school at UCLA hopefully by the end of this year, and I'm planning on applying for an MBA at USC, Pepperdine, and LMU. Has anyone ever been/gone to these schools? How is the environment? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

FRANK!!

Dude im a ucla student too. Why not just study in ucla ?

lfeharri

cuz the MBA program at ucla only accepts CEO's, CFO's, Directors, and people with like decades of work experience.. im only 23.. i dont think i have a chance at all haha

lexusscturbo

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My cousin goes to USC works full time as well. He's doing the distance education MBA for Electrical Engineering.
Just one tip have your front plate on.

lexusscturbo

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USC is a bit shady at night..err really shady..Good program though; I think per session it was like 13,500 for him? (for last winter) for like 2 or 3 classes)?

ULTiMaX99

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wow you're only 23 and finishing grad school already? most b schools, especially the ranked ones require several years of work experience...

lfeharri

well i finished undergrad at 22.. and grad school is 1.5 yrs at ucla and since i took summer, i'll be like 24 when im done?

the programs i'm looking into are international programs that don't require a significant amount of experience.. they just require 1-3 years.. and ive been working for 2 yrs now.. so yea hopefully i can get accepted. i just want to finish all my schooling before i have wife kids and a bunch of other obligations i guess.

4ntvings

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work work work experience guys if you plan for to enter an mba program...i've lectured all my cousins about this route. just prepared-there's a reason why work experience is preferred (and often required) guys.

USC is terrible at night-c'mon, it's in Los Angeles, LOL
Loyola too is in LA, right?
Pepperdine, I would expect be nice

Allen K

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Loyola is in a pretty good part of LA though. The streets are huge and the neighborhood just added a bunch of new buildings

sirblinks

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Go to MIchigan...best school on earth! expensive but still the best baby! too bad usc always kicks our @ss. i got lucky, i had a scholarship to play baseball there...then i tore my knee

ULTiMaX99

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LMU is located in westchester. the neighborhood its surrounded by is pretty nice. several million dollars homes in that area...

PhilipMSPT

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Pepperdine.

You can surf between classes...

lfeharri

That is one of the reasons why i want to go there.. I went to UCSB for undergrad.. and i went surfing on a daily basis hahaha

Jay

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Pepperdine ALL THE WAY BABY !!!! hahaha....

BA & Master of Psy baby !!!

Lexmex

I'd have to also recommend you get work experience before tackling an MBA. The concepts will make much more sense and you get that much more benefit, because you can instantly recognize situations.

When I lived in Mexico, MBAs (known as Maestrias de Adminsitracion), even from good schools, were so common among people who applied to my last company. I only took those who had at least 2-3 years working experience.