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You are currently posting as works at

Might get more traction if you actually pose a question

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Every big mba program posts a job report that shows the industries their graduates accept jobs in. Find the top US news MBA programs and scroll though their jobs reports to get an idea which school is good for what

Have you taken the GMAT yet?

Well in either case, you can definitely be successful with landing a role post-MBA outside of the BBs and EBs from a non-M7/top 25 school. Indiana and Vanderbilt are good non-top mba programs that are still successful at landing in IB

I’d recommend going to the MBA sub on reddit and posting there tho, will get better responses than here IMO.

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