Depending on what you want to do with your MBA I’d be worried Rice isn’t a strong enough program to be worth it. I have considered the same thing and will likely eventually do an MBA at UT. I agree re: opportunity cost but am remote so I hope I can attend classes and kinda coast at work until I get fired.
Same. Most of what juniors at my firm are doing are admin and project management tasks, and an MBA while in big law seem more doable in this remote environment especially when you are staffed on deals with multiple juniors and paralegals to help with fire drills
Keep me posted on if you decide to try it! I think I could get a decent scholarship to UT with my GMAT score but the opportunity cost is huge. I’m like 90% sure I’m gonna try it in a few years though unless I end up loving law (unlikely).
FWIW not in Big Law but bill about 170/month and doing the online MBA with UIUC for $22k. I think it helps add credibility if I stay where I am or go in house or will allow me to pivot in the future. I also had a personal interest in learning too. Taking my time one class at a time as their program allows that and so far so good.
Admittedly I take short cuts. The Coursera videos (think of these like the textbook part of each class) have PDFs of the slides/transcript so I can easily search the relevant info for my homework.
Group meetings are on weekends via zoom so maybe an hour or two of weekend work. I don’t watch the live lectures, which are also recorded, unless I absolutely need to.
I am probably missing out on a some things, but I take the stuff I really want to learn and leave the rest. I’m comfortable doing that since this is more of an add on to my career than a primary degree and so far I haven’t gotten below an A- in any class (not that difficult to do).
I have also been able to meet several folks through the online Workplace (Facebook like media app) and so the networking aspect has been great too.
This probably doesn’t help, but my friend is at Rice in the full time MBA program. He has mentioned that the online or part time MBA program is not viewed as favorably as full time (might be selection bias, obviously). He will be doing IB upon graduation for a large bank in the $180k range. Their salary growth seems much faster paced than big law scale. But it also seems like they will work more. I’m sure you know these things, more of me just rambling because I talk frequently with a friend who is there.
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Depending on what you want to do with your MBA I’d be worried Rice isn’t a strong enough program to be worth it. I have considered the same thing and will likely eventually do an MBA at UT. I agree re: opportunity cost but am remote so I hope I can attend classes and kinda coast at work until I get fired.
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People have done crazier things. I'm not sure I'd pay for a Rice MBA, though.
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Yeah I’m leaning against it. The online option just made me curious.
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Same. Most of what juniors at my firm are doing are admin and project management tasks, and an MBA while in big law seem more doable in this remote environment especially when you are staffed on deals with multiple juniors and paralegals to help with fire drills
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Keep me posted on if you decide to try it! I think I could get a decent scholarship to UT with my GMAT score but the opportunity cost is huge. I’m like 90% sure I’m gonna try it in a few years though unless I end up loving law (unlikely).
FWIW not in Big Law but bill about 170/month and doing the online MBA with UIUC for $22k. I think it helps add credibility if I stay where I am or go in house or will allow me to pivot in the future. I also had a personal interest in learning too. Taking my time one class at a time as their program allows that and so far so good.
Admittedly I take short cuts. The Coursera videos (think of these like the textbook part of each class) have PDFs of the slides/transcript so I can easily search the relevant info for my homework.
Group meetings are on weekends via zoom so maybe an hour or two of weekend work. I don’t watch the live lectures, which are also recorded, unless I absolutely need to.
I am probably missing out on a some things, but I take the stuff I really want to learn and leave the rest. I’m comfortable doing that since this is more of an add on to my career than a primary degree and so far I haven’t gotten below an A- in any class (not that difficult to do).
I have also been able to meet several folks through the online Workplace (Facebook like media app) and so the networking aspect has been great too.
This probably doesn’t help, but my friend is at Rice in the full time MBA program. He has mentioned that the online or part time MBA program is not viewed as favorably as full time (might be selection bias, obviously). He will be doing IB upon graduation for a large bank in the $180k range. Their salary growth seems much faster paced than big law scale. But it also seems like they will work more. I’m sure you know these things, more of me just rambling because I talk frequently with a friend who is there.