bmarcus

The Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies is from Rutgers, which is a good sign. You should check into the placements of each of the schools and see how those look. Congrats and good luck!

The Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies is from Rutgers, which is a good sign. You should check into the placements of each of the schools and see how those looks. Congrats and good luck!

Oops! First reject.

I'm waiting as well and Congrats!!!

What is your current Masters in and what do want to be doing career-wise?

Movies and books. Totally saving me right now!

Who would your advisor be at UCLA?

Lords of Finance

Go for it!

Reminds me of the bar scene in Good Will Hunting...

As a side note, UC Irvine has a similar program that combines an engineering masters with business courses. Multiple students have landed jobs at local medical device companies. http://www.eng.uci.edu/grad/programs/em

Ditto! They wanted them ASAP as well. So I paid the extra expedite fee and had the school Fedex another transcript. I was able to see who signed for it and let the admin contact know, upon which she confirmed the receipt.

I applied to three business schools there. The applications where very direct and straight forward. I had contacted a few of the professors ahead of time and they were very cordial. I'm not sure about the post doc opportunities back here (US), but I plan on finding out if I get accepted, although all three departments were pretty well represented in one of the leading journals in the field.

My top choice really has everything rolled into one: 1) Professors directly matching my area of interest. 2) Potential to finish in as early as 3 years. 3) Close to family. 4) Respected international reputation. 5) The communication from them has been very cordial.

In my opinion, it would be worthwhile to finish the MBA and then look into PhD programs. The final few courses really help to tie the program together. At that point, you would have a solid basis to launch into the PhD. So far, in my case, the PhD programs I've spoken to have looked very favorably on my MBA experience, including a solid GPA. In fact, UCLA was recruiting us directly when we were there and offered to credit three of the courses towards the PhD.