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标题: [转帖]美国市场营销专业留学申请经验大全 [打印本页]

作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-15 07:04     标题: [转帖]美国市场营销专业留学申请经验大全

美国顶尖商学院特点及留学必知  来源:太傻咨询中心 郭凯 录入:2007年10月30日 

王微拥有一长串留学经历:美国史泰顿岛学院(the College of Staten Island)学士学位、约翰霍普金斯大学(Johns Hopkins University)硕士学位、以及法国枫丹白露INSEAD(欧洲商学院)MBA学位。从上海,再到世界各地,男生王微积累了丰富的求学经验。他说,只要有机会,留学自然要去顶尖级的学校。王微联合了一批和他同样经历的男生“杀”回中国,誓要帮助优秀者多知道点外面的世界。

两年前的九月,dot.com如日中天,众多MBA学生辍学或推迟入学,投身加入或创立dot-com公司。短短两年,时势已大相径庭。今年的九月,商学院校园中氛围显得低落得多。尤其安然事件后,美国商学院的形象受到严重冲击,而且,其余波似乎影响到了他们未来招生的态度。沃顿招生委员会的Rosemaria Martinelli已经在一些非传统领域寻找录取新生,如非政府组织、政府和非赢利机构等。这一做法希望能在每个班级里都能拥有一些富于道德方面考虑习惯的学生。在加州大学洛杉机安德森商学院,显贵奢华,近在咫及——好来坞、名车、依山的豪宅,以及高速路上穿梭的花哨跑车。但安德森的院长Bruce Willison仍然认为,即使几年前MBA毕业时极其丰厚的薪酬已不复存在,申请MBA的原因基本上并没改变。

在由圣教会组织建立的圣母学院,Mendoza商学院院长Carolyn Woo案头的第一要务就是向学生灌输商业道德的理念。Woo院长希望吸引和录取已经深信“生活远不止意味着拥有许多财富的学生,而且他们应当对获取成功过程中自己的所作所为与成功结果本身同等重视。

在密歇根商学院,今年的申请人数比起已经是破记录申请人数的2001-2002年度还会稍高一些。GMAT和GPA的成绩估计不会有什么大变化,平均保持在700和3.4左右。中国学生的平均GMAT水平一般会高出20分左右。软性的方面,ESSAY和推荐信一直是最重要的。学校今年似乎更注意了解申请人在这么个艰难的经济形势里如何应付,并且继续个人的发展。学生的结构,似乎今年不会有大变化。尽管糟糕的就业率让很多学校后悔当初没有多招些由公司担保的申请人,这些人回原来的公司让学校职业中心的人省了许多心事。但是两年后的就业市场,很难从今天的录取上去调整预测,所以学校基本上还是维持了一贯的录取原则。

小道消息

●Kellogg和芝加哥大学,因为新排名的情况,预计今年申请人数会突然上升。

第一轮的申请人可能因此吃亏,因为学校预留席位给将来的申请人。

●Columbia今年申请人数又涨了,但是工作的形势依然不好。Clumbia还是喜欢GMAT高分,但是相对其他学校,中国学生今年录取数较低。

美国顶尖商学院排名

1.Wharton:数年来排名一向第一,却在美国以外名声不显。虽然强项不少,却与金融几乎为同名词。

2.Kellogg:市场营销(marketing)是传统强项。学校风气轻松。但Part-time学生太多,品牌效益有稀释的倾向。

3.Harvard:种地的老大爷可能都听说过哈佛的名字,满街的盗版挂的也是它的牌子,老大地位不因排名而受影响。但口碑不佳,通常认为其学生Snob的比例较高。

4.MIT:一句话,技术管理。

5.Duke:北卡的南方气味。

6.Michigan:咨询业一度的重镇,对中国学生尤其青睐。但公立学校的背景让它在美国总有些低人一头。

7.Columbia:华尔街的姻亲关系,让它无法不精于金融。纽约。但一向管理混乱。

8.Cornell:大学的光芒反射在商学院上。

9.Darden:维吉尼亚风味。小,亲密。

10.Chicago:学究和金融的圣地。

11.Stanford:IT管理。最难申请的学校,它的名字让申请人肃然起敬。

12.UCLA:不知道它的特色,但知道是个好学校。

13.Stern:格林威治村离华尔街更近。金融。

14.Carnegie Mellon:第三所IT和技术管理的学校。

15.North Carolina:又一所南方特色的学校。

16.Tuck:大学与华尔街关系深。Fraternityhouse是投资银行家的摇篮。

17.University of Texasat Austin:一直努力成为又一所专重科技管理的学校

18.Haas:加州的阳光反射在斯坦福上太多。

19.Yale:全靠了大学的光芒。非盈利组织管理的唯一选择。

20.Indiana:毕业后在中部的大平原上找份安安稳稳的工作。


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-15 07:05

转学商科Marketing申请者需准备的方面

现在申请商科的学生有很多,Marketing作为Business中的一部分,申请这个方向的学生也不少,只是学校对于转学者的录取比例并不高,大多是2000人中成功200左右。就申请Marketing的方向我们来看看转申请者需要准备的方面:

美国院校专业众多,一般的情况为:工科转理科,理科转商科或文科,相对容易;文科转商科及理科,理科转工科就比较困难。还有就是一般大三大四的学生是无法转学的。转学美国只有两种选择:大一学生去读大二;大二学生去读大三。对于美国的一流名校来说,尤其是IVY LEAGUE(还有STANFORD、UC-BERKELEY),如果你想大三转成大一是绝对不可能的。学校规定,在读的学生必须申请转学,不能申freshman。

本科成绩单(UNDERGRADUATE TRANSCRIPT)和中学成绩单(SECONDARY SCHOOL TRANSCRIPT)是必不可少的。也就是GPA,有些学校对转学生的GPA的要求很高,有具体的要求。虽然有些学校对GPA没有具体要求,但是对于转学生来说,不可能去发表一些关于Marketing的文章,更不会去做Marketing Analysis的研究。学校只有从GPA中看出你的学习能力,所以GPA分数能高就高。

?TOEFL是肯定要考的。一般来说在600~630左右,但是如果你想去IVY LEAGUE的话,最少也要650. GRE和SAT并不是所有的学校要求考的,可以按各个学校的要求来做参考。

现在申请商科的学生有很多,Marketing作为Business中的一部分,申请这个方向的学生也不少,只是学校对于转学者的录取比例并不高,大多是2000人中成功200左右。就申请Marketing的方向我们来看看转申请者需要准备的方面:

美国院校专业众多,一般的情况为:工科转理科,理科转商科或文科,相对容易;文科转商科及理科,理科转工科就比较困难。还有就是一般大三大四的学生是无法转学的。转学美国只有两种选择:大一学生去读大二;大二学生去读大三。对于美国的一流名校来说,尤其是IVY LEAGUE(还有STANFORD、UC-BERKELEY),如果你想大三转成大一是绝对不可能的。学校规定,在读的学生必须申请转学,不能申freshman。

本科成绩单(UNDERGRADUATE TRANSCRIPT)和中学成绩单(SECONDARY SCHOOL TRANSCRIPT)是必不可少的。也就是GPA,有些学校对转学生的GPA的要求很高,有具体的要求。虽然有些学校对GPA没有具体要求,但是对于转学生来说,不可能去发表一些关于Marketing的文章,更不会去做Marketing Analysis的研究。学校只有从GPA中看出你的学习能力,所以GPA分数能高就高。

TOEFL是肯定要考的。一般来说在600~630左右,但是如果你想去IVY LEAGUE的话,最少也要650. GRE和SAT并不是所有的学校要求考的,可以按各个学校的要求来做参考。

Essays一般要求2篇。个人陈述(PERSONAL STATEMENT)和未来陈述(Statement of Purpose).一般地内容就是要表明你在校的各种,工作经验等,还有就是表现对于marketing方面的了解。对于在校生来说,是没有工作经验的,但是如果你有part-time job的marketing方面的实习经验对于申请者来说会更有机会,如在其他公司的市场部做助手,或者对于某一商品的市场分析。还有就是要表明对于Marketing的了解,这一方面对于申请者来说要了解Marketing不是很难,但是要表明自己对于Marketing的独特的见解,才能使申请者对学校有吸引力。

推荐信(RECOMMENDATION)    很多学校要求Dean's Reference Form和Teacher Recommendation。Teacher Recommendation一般学校也会接受SECONDARY SCHOOL老师开出的推荐信。对于大一学生而言,你的老师刚刚和你接触,并不是很了解你,但是你的高中老师和你相处的时间比较长,对你有充分的了解,所以这时学校更愿意接受你高中老师写的推荐信。

其他文件学校会表明会参考一些介绍性材料。比如在你学校学生会的工作介绍等。这时你就可以把你part-time job的marketing方面的实习经验写成一篇介绍性的文件,递交给学校。

总的来说,转学并不是一件简单的事,GPA,TOEFL等成绩都需要一个比较高的分数,有时还需相关的实习经验。对于申请者来说一方面要应付学校的学习课程,一方面要申请新的学校,在时间和精力上都需花下很大的力气。

Essays一般要求2篇。个人陈述(PERSONAL STATEMENT)和未来陈述(Statement of Purpose).一般地内容就是要表明你在校的各种,工作经验等,还有就是表现对于marketing方面的了解。对于在校生来说,是没有工作经验的,但是如果你有part-time job的marketing方面的实习经验对于申请者来说会更有机会,如在其他公司的市场部做助手,或者对于某一商品的市场分析。还有就是要表明对于Marketing的了解,这一方面对于申请者来说要了解Marketing不是很难,但是要表明自己对于Marketing的独特的见解,才能使申请者对学校有吸引力。

推荐信(RECOMMENDATION)    很多学校要求Dean's Reference Form和Teacher Recommendation。Teacher Recommendation一般学校也会接受SECONDARY SCHOOL老师开出的推荐信。对于大一学生而言,你的老师刚刚和你接触,并不是很了解你,但是你的高中老师和你相处的时间比较长,对你有充分的了解,所以这时学校更愿意接受你高中老师写的推荐信。

其他文件学校会表明会参考一些介绍性材料。比如在你学校学生会的工作介绍等。这时你就可以把你part-time job的marketing方面的实习经验写成一篇介绍性的文件,递交给学校。


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-15 07:05

叶儿Marketing的申请经验  来源:太傻超级论坛 w0o0  录入:2008年03月12日 

绝对想说是因为受到ken的感染才会让我开始总结自己的申请历程。他写的挺详细的,我就说点别的外加上自己的一点建议好了 。

当然申请过程中获得了很多人的帮助,谢谢sunny,还有爬爬、清逸、莫莫、pangpangshine、潜水的鱼、晕晕的兔子、ken、零点MM以及等等等等(我的目标是要把帮助过咱的人全都列上,如果落下了谁,赶紧举牌)

申请时间进程

我的申请是从07年6月末开始,5月份考完雅思成绩出来以后。然后陆陆续续开始准备材料。那个时候是上午上太傻 ,下午睡觉 ,晚上去自习室写东西 。7月末材料准备完成。8月份开始弄材料的电子版、各种排版。8月末就开始寄材料了。

10月12号收到第一个offer。

 建议:一旦你确定了出国,就应尽早动手准备,这样在毕业年级还可以有工夫去学学投资、看些想看的书什么的。

背景介绍及确定申请学校

不是211,不是985,二本学校。双专业,市场营销+软件工程。当然编程太辛苦 ,而且我也不喜欢总是在一个地方坐着 ,所以出去还是想继续市场营销。两个专业的平均分85+。没有论文发表,大学里参加了无数“乱78糟”的活动,写ps的时候发现总是能和marketing扯上边 。

看了精华帖中关于marketing 学校的帖子,外加自己的认识,我觉得需要营销专业背景的、专业师资等水平不错的、不要申请费的 再加上学校排名等因素确定了四所学校:

Leeds, strathclyde, cadiff, lancaster,同时看了N多人关于cranfield的帖子,再加他家一个。

最后申请时,为:leeds(IMkt), strathclyde(IMkt), Lancaster(AMM), cranfield(SMkt)

其他三家都给了offer,只有兰卡让我转电子商务,我当时就想,多学一个专业也会有麻烦啊 。

 建议:选学校的时候,不妨可以这样:确定自己的兴趣是什么,想学什么->把握大的学科方向->搜索相关帖子确定一个大致的学校范围->到学校网站上去查看每个专业的aims,这个能确定是否和你想象的相符合,可以缩小学校范围->查看专业的设置->最终确定要申请的学校。

申请材料及寄出

申请材料的准备真的很痛苦,记得好像坛子上某位仁兄说过,考雅思只是申请出国的长征路上的一小步,真的是这样。我记得那时考完试,还天天泡图书馆,看各种ps,cv,rl的写作书,还有从太傻上down下来的资料。当写完CV和3封rl的时候,我觉得自己已经江郎才尽了 ,写完ps的第一稿朋友直接跟我说:你重写吧 。最终我的ps的中文稿写了四稿。

过多的我就不多说了,很多帖子里有写材料的准备。除了坛子里置顶的精华帖,还有几个帖子我是非常建议看的:

饺子的《关于申请,我的一点经验,与大家共勉》

tulazhen《没有任何华丽的文笔,给将要出国的朋友写点东西》

tulazhen《我的PS,两封推荐信》

这篇ps给了我很多启发。应该说写marketing的ps资源不是很多,这一篇跟我以前看到过的真的很不一样。我把这些感觉、启发放大,再加上自己的东西写成了自己的ps最终稿。所以特别吐血推荐。

从这个我认为对于推荐人是哪个学科的老师真的不是很重要,最终要的是从推荐信中能看出来他/她了解你。我选的就是一个英语老师和一个营销老师。

关于材料的寄出,我先说说和cranfield的经历:

首先我是先发的邮件问他们什么条件需要考gmat,然后penny给了我一个邮箱地址说可以把材料发到那然后有人会评估。9月初的事,那时他家的网申还没开,所以我就把除了申请表以外的文件压成一个pdf文档直接发过去。因为没有申请表,所以大概过了一个月他们就开始催我要。我想应该他们把材料都评估过了,所以就把申请表也发了过去offer来的也挺快的:11月1号提交电子文档12号收到offer。现在我想想,其实这样的一个迂回战术也不错,   。

Leeds和lanc我都是用网申+中国邮政的平邮,strath就是纸申(网申是要钱地)没有一个邮丢。要提醒的是不要用挂号,多8rmb不说,还慢一周多。另外有的邮局当你说要寄国际平邮的时候会自己就把挂号给你加上,所以用邮政的时候,一定要先跟他说(我当时看到业务员要把挂号用的红白标签贴上,跟他说不要挂号,他说没有挂号丢了可不负责 。我想你别给我故意弄丢就行)。

至于像dhl等国际快递,偶没用过,所以有需要自己搜索吧。

 建议:如果你打算发送电子版的申请材料,最好是压成一个文件,word也好,pdf也好。用pdf的话,你还可以加上书签,就在左侧,可以方便阅览人,而且自己排版时也很方便。你可以想象一下如果你是邮件收件人,下一个人的申请材料还要下好几个,下麻烦,打开看也麻烦。

接受、延期deadline或拒绝offer及电汇押金

接受很好办,如果有decision form这类的,填好再扫描发过去就可以了;

延期:说下自己的真实情况就好,也表现得人比较诚恳。我写的就是因为在做论文,所以没有时间去银行弄电汇,请再给我**时间,等我论文弄完了,我就交押金。

拒绝:咱中国人特别讲情面,尤其是当人家为你做了很多而到最后却不得不拒绝人家。对strath我就是这种感情特别强烈。当初是非strath不去的,所以8月份跟人家说我实在等不及啦之类的话。拒绝的话,言多无用,而且写起来感情上也很困难。

I very much appreciate what you have done for me and thank you for your offer of International Marketing. However I am sorry to inform you that I have to decline it for I have accepted one from another university.

电汇押金

在比较了各家银行的收费标准后,我发现工行和招行是最便宜的,但工行的网络系统不如招行。

我昨天去招行的分行办的电汇。汇了1000英镑,费用是电讯费150元,外汇汇出汇款100元(手续费),国外行扣费169.35(这个费用就是国外中间银行的扣费,提前扣除了。所以你汇了多少钱,到学校时就会是多少。从2月14起招行的这个费用下调,原来是200元。)

电汇时,在境外汇款申请书上,学校的信息需要(括号里是实际需要的英文信息名称):

收款人开户银行在其代理行账号 (SWIFT Code 或 IBAN BIC Number);

收款人开户银行名称及地址(Bank Name 及 Address),其实当银行在输入对方银行名称时,会出现对方银行的地址,但不是很详细。

收款人账号(Account No 及 IBAN Number)

收款人名称(Account Name)

比如我填的就是:

收款人开户银行在其代理行账号:NWBK GB2L

收款人开户银行名称及地址:National Westminster Bank Plc

Cranfield University Branch, Wharley End, Cranfield, Bedford,Mk43 0ST

收款人账号:00516228 IBAN Number GB38 NWBK60065600516228

收款人名称:Cranfield University number 2 Account

 建议:去银行办电汇的时候,记得带上身份证,还有学校账户信息的清单,要简单明了,把该有的信息都包含在里面,如果遇到到不明白的问题,就可以把这张单子直接递过去,让他告诉你怎么填。因为要填的信息很多,而且汇款单上的给的地方又小,带一张清单过去,方便业务员核对。结束语:当初决定DIY的时候瞬间觉得一个头有N个大,做过了之后发现也没什么,省下找中介的钱已经被预约出去请客了。现在正在看签证版的精华帖,那种头大如斗的感觉又回来了,好怀念啊,哈哈

最后希望大家都能顺利获得心仪的offer。

建议:特别希望以后再发帖的朋友们把帖子的标题写清楚了。自己看帖子的时候往往会发现很多很好的东西,但是因为标题的关键字不是很好,导致当时没有加入收藏的事后再用搜索引擎的时候就搜不到了。


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-15 07:05

新东方留学专家:畅谈美国留学新趋势

  我特别想请包老师给大家说说现在流行的留学新趋势,同学们究竟会选择去什么样的国家,选什么样的专家,相关的趋势请您简单给大家介绍一下。

  包凡一:总体来说,留学总的人数在上升,但是让我印象最深的,最大的变化是到国外读本科生人数的增加。我在前些年在新东方做咨询还很少碰到,一年大概只能碰到一、两个去读本科生,现在读本科生的人已经接近,甚至有超过读研究生的人数那个趋势了。

  主持人:从您个人角度来说,您觉得学生出国留学的年龄是低一点比较好,还是高一点比较好?很多家长都有一种困惑,比如年龄低可以早一点接触先进的教育,但是年龄大一点,出国以后就可以好好照顾自己,两种原因都挺有道理的。

  包凡一:这个我也没有一个定论,国外西方国家,比方说美国,它的确是把教育资源更多投向研究生,如果你在国内能够上一个不错的大学,得到扎实的培训,尤其是科学方面的,我觉得你在国内上完这个大学再去读研究生,似乎更合理。现在读本科的人有两种,我觉得他们的家长也认为他们最值得去读。一种是他们的SAT成绩很好也参加过很多的社会活动,托福也能过,能够去美国一流的大学读书,他们父母认为很值得;还有一种就是在国内高考考的不太好,或者没有希望考很好,只能去二流三流的学校,而这时候他如果去美国反而能够读质量比国内更优秀的学校,这样的同学也很值得。但是总体来说,到美国去读本科,现在回国的同学还不太多,我还不能够通过我所接触到的案例来做一个判断,说他们这样是不是更好。

  主持人:说到成功留学,以前可能说你出得去出不去,就说明你是成不成功。现在好像又多了很多标准,比如说你出去之后这个专业是不是适合你,适不适合你未来的发展,您觉得什么样的留学叫做成功留学呢?

  包凡一:我认为成功的留学首先要考虑到这个留学是否有利于发展我们的职业,说得更直观一点,就是是否能够帮助我们找到一份好的工作,能够发挥自己,薪酬也不错,这是一个最直接的衡量标准。因此有了这么一个标准之后,在留学的时候就要有一些考量,比方说如果你是一个比较成熟的学生,那么你在出国前在国内已经有一定的基础,这样的学生他们可能会考虑出国。有的时候会建议他们考虑在国外读书,读的越快越好,回来之后还能够接上以前的茬儿。但是假设你去读本科,或者你本科毕业到国外读研究生,没有任何工作经历,在这点上我也要提醒很多留学生,尤其是申请者的父母们,国外很多的学科,比方尤其是商业,还有社会科学一类的,比方说法律,它都是非常注重工作经验的,很多同学毕业之后很盲目,需要马上走,这样只能去一些比较差的学校,而且毕业了以后,你这个时候在国外也不容易找工作,回国又不容易找工作,后来我发现"海归"变成"海带",主要是太着急要走。

  而且我国的很多父母往往有这么一种看法,他们认为人生分成两个阶段,头一个阶段是只学习,不生活,后一个阶段是只生活,不学习。这个是违背现在潮流和市场对我们的要求的。实际上在读商业的研究生里面,在国外,二十八、九岁,三十多都是很正常的年龄,你可以在读研究生的时候再恋爱、结婚、生孩子,都是可以的,所以国外的大学如果这个科系明明要求工作经验的,不要去逃避这个工作,比方说商业,MBA,它本来就是一个职业培训,如果你连职业都没有,那么你获得培训的效果就大打折扣,尤其对将来就业不利。

  主持人:我现在还有一个困惑,比如很多人觉得自己的读书连起来比较好,就是从学校到学校,再到学校。

  包凡一:那要分专业,比如你是读生化专业,你在本科受到基础的训练,报了研究生或者博士,你往往在一个大学就呆在一个实验室,但是有些像社会的,人文的,商业的,它是明确要求要有工作经验的。

  主持人:就是说不能一概而论,说哪一种方法是最好的。我做过很多关于签证官的访谈,各国的政策其实也是多少了解一点,所以我发现很多家长都认为签证是留学当中很关键的一步,您觉得在我们留学的整个过程当中,最重要的那几个步骤,除了签证以外都还有些什么样的内容?

  包凡一:比方说第一个要确定学校,首先我们还要确定国家,比方说我们去之前要看看,假设我是一个没有任何工作经历的人,而我的专业毕业以后又需要有工作经验,不管以后你在国外还是回国,都需要起码有实习的经验,我们去的时候就要考虑这个国家能不能给你提供这样的机会。还有选择专业,选择大学,比方说我国的学生到了国外为了获得实习的经验,为了获得就业的机会实际上,去一个大城市可能会更好一些,我们甚至要考虑去国际化程度比较高的大学,这样的话录取大学生的那些公司往往都是固定的,假设这些录取人的人到了一个国际化程度比较高的大学,他们就很习惯于看到东方的面孔,你找到工作机会也大,这时候假设你到一个深山老林的大学去,你可能风险就会大一些,做一个开拓者。这些完了之后当然就是寄成绩单,寄申请信,寄推荐信,完了可能就是到最重要的一步了,就是申请文件。

  主持人:为什么说申请文件很重要呢?

  包凡一:这是涉及到中外教育资源不同而造成的一个录取方面的考量的不同。在我国教育资源是紧缺的,因此我国首先考虑的是公平,只有在分数面前人人是公平的,这个分数高的永远得到录取,分数低的就不行,分数背后张三李四到底有什么品格,有什么社会参与,有什么为社会服务的意识,或者体育专长,艺术专长,这个都不在考虑之下,都是谁的分数越高就录取谁。我国的很多申请者,或者申请者的家长往往误以为国外也是这样,其实国外不是这样,国外的大学教授有很大的权限,分数托福成绩都是过关的,GRE成绩都是参考的,最后还要了解你这个人,你这个人是一个什么样的人,就是我刚才所说的,你是不是有交流能力,团队精神,是不是有品格,是不是有各种专长,这些东西通过你的自述来表现,当然你的自述要通过你的推荐信得到印证。这些东西在成绩差不多的情况下,这些软的东西,我们说一个俗一点的词,自我包装的能力就起到相当大的作用了。

  主持人:有的人认为考学应该有一说一,有二说二,从来不想包装,可能在国外申请大学的时候其实是需要自己对自己进行一番包装的。

  包凡一:对,国外的文化的确是,就是那些表达能力强的人、善于推销自己的人,从上大学的时候就比别人更有优势,以后找工作也是这样。其实我估计我国很多私营企业也是这样了,其实这个并不太难理解。

  主持人:在我们整个文件当中,怎么才能体现出比如一个人的表达能力,是不是主要考察就是他的书面能力?还有就是能不能够辨别出是真是假,比如我写的很辉煌,但实际上不是这样?

  包凡一:我做这个工作做了十年了,可能在国内属于最早的那一批,不一定是最早的那一个。是真是假是比较容易判断的,如果你写的都是假的话,当然最可悲的是有的人写的是真的,但是因为他的语言能力太差,或者是他就认为有一种固定的写作模式,这样的话国外的教授一看千篇一律,给人感觉是假的,这是最亏的,但是你很难把一个假的事情写成真的。

  主持人:其实也就是说我们的专家们看了这么多大量的申请文件,实际上这种鉴别能力还是非常强的。

  包凡一:对,不用专家,其实国外的教授如果看一些学生的东西的话,他会有一个大致的感觉,这个是真的还是假的,假的是不行的,一般来说看了上句就知道下句要说什么,这些就属于落入俗套的,不管你是真的假的,这样的话别人都不太感兴趣的。有一个事实,就是国外录取委员会的人也承认过,就是大批的来自发展中国家,当然可能首当其冲是中国,大多数的人写的PS,就是他的个人陈述往往都没有被读完,这样的话你对这个学校的申请就终止了。 PS最重要的是比如别人看到第一段,第二段,假设你写的都很雷同,有一个固定的模式,这样的话你就失败了,尤其是那些竞争比较激烈的科系。

  主持人:我觉得就跟写作文一样,你在第一第二段抓住考官的眼球,他可能才有耐心全部看完。

  包凡一:是,因为申请者众多,每年到了审核申请文件的时候,录取委员会的人也是最头痛的时候,这时候应该给他一些奖赏,就是让他看到一个不同寻常的,就是不落入俗套的,又是真实能够展现你自己能力的,或者展现你自己的思考过程,种种之类,没有一个固定的模式。

  主持人:我听完您介绍之后我突然间有一种想法,国外的大学特别愿意要德才兼备的学生,不仅仅学习好,也有自己独特的一些想法,能够做到这样的人更加容易得到外国教授的亲睐。

  包凡一:是的,这个已经经过很多很多案例的证实。

  主持人:在我们整个写作过程当中,比如像申请研究生硕士学位,他们在文件写作当中应该注意哪些内容?

  包凡一:工商管理硕士学位一般来说是把题目都给你做好了,每一个小短文让你写几百字,最多是一千字。除了工商管理以外的他就笼统让你写一个个人陈述,在写作这个的时候,我曾经讲过,我看过很多学员写的东西,大致上有这么一个俗套,我只能说不要这么写,至于要怎么写因为我没过过他的生活,我不知道他的生活当中闪光点到底在什么地方。比方说不要怎么写,大致说起来比如第一段,我们就不要介绍学科的重要性,因为这是浪费时间,别人都知道,不要去抄一个名人名言,所有人都这么做,你抄的话对你没有好处,第二部分不要强调自己学习的勤奋刻苦成绩好,因为这是中国学生共同的特点,老外都知道,还有就是写课外活动的时候不要一句两句都盖过了,每个人都当过学生会主席,要写出你究竟做了什么,你为什么这么做,大家可能生活经历,理想,都差不多,但是每个人的思想情感,对待每件事物的那个瞬间的思考是不一样的,要把这些东西抓住,这样的话你才有独特性。独特性是这个写作的生命,或者说做课外活动,很多同学都写我参加了希望工程,你到底是怎么参加的,每个人就写那么一句话,没有具体事实的话,让人感觉像是假的。

  主持人:而且还有一点,您觉得在整个大学当中参加了的很多活动当中,哪些是外国老师们能够认可的呢?

  包凡一:这个我觉得也不要去猜测,比方说现在很多人都说他们参加了希望工程,或者参加了拯救地球的活动,或者有的人说去了养老院,事情大概都只能这么多,我认为参与的经验都是差不多的,但是参与这个经验的感受和动机,和对每个人的影响应该是不同的。

  主持人:我给您举个例子,比如有很多同学可能在大学期间拍过什么DV,有过创造创新发明,但是他这些没有得到国家的承认,比如我,虽然有创造发明,但是没有拿到专利,您觉得这些国外老师们会认可他们这些过程吗?

  包凡一:这个我们可能还要分开来讲。首先假设你是一个年纪比较大的,你申请博士学位,非常专业化的学科,可能你的PS更多的是要强调你的专业能力,因为这个时候别人招博士生,不是招学生,甚至也是招工作助手。假设你是一个本科生,你学的是一个大众化的专业,比如计算机,比如BE,你罗列自己的课程没有意思,因为国外并没有一个固定的要求,就是你应该获得什么什么,我们不要把自己想像成是大师,别人没有这个要求,你不过是读一个硕士,你不过是读一个博士,你还是要如实地把自己作为学生的那一面表现出来,不要把自己包装成是一个不需要学习的人。

  主持人:学生身份就是学生身份,不要把自己打造的过于成熟。

  包凡一:对。

 


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-15 07:05

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“考研还是出国”是我大三那会被问得最多的一句话。有过憧憬,有过迷茫。这几天和大家一样等着判刑,闲着也是闲着,还是随便写点东西吧,努力做一个有益于人民的人。
谈谈出国留学申请相关细节(商科)
一年一度的申请季节又要到了,申请过程中的手续和细节非常繁杂,我去年申请期间就花了很多时间在材料的包装上和处理上,其实这是一个低效率的体力劳动过程,在此,身为GTER最COOL的版主,没有理由不讲讲申请过程中的一些细节和应该注意的问题。 一、申请材料概述: 一套完整的申请材料我认为应该包括: (1)申请表(部分学校附加奖学金申请表或系申请表,有的是一式两份),申请表有很多地方要大写,填的时候要注意。一般除了基本的个人信息外,还有一些ENTRANCE的时间,就写2004。是不是第一次申请,是哪里的公民(一般选ASIA/PACIFIC),要不要钱(当然要啦!),没钱能不能来(看个人情况啦,这一条不影响录取,就是你没钱他也会给你一个AD的,不会直接拒你,不过和拒你没区别了,我很有收AD的经验。。呵呵),有的学校还会问你想集中在哪些研究方向上。申请表也可以用ACOBAT填,特别是下载的那种填完再打印出来很方便,又省了填错而重写的功夫。 (2)申请费(2001年以前很多人逃,但根据偶去年的经验现在美国学校是越来越严格了,基本逃不掉,你想想你什么货色,每年那么多申请者,就偏偏要你?还是老实的交吧!),申请费的交费方式有三种,一种是用信用卡交,一般在网申的最后交,当然也有的像BRANDEIS和RUTGERS可以在纸申请的时候填好信用卡的号码和过期日寄过去再让学校在那边扣的,另外一种是办汇票,个人认为能用信用卡交的就不要去办汇票,因为有交易成本,中国银行是22元/张。 (3)推荐信。基本上美国的学校都有自己的推荐表,这也是申请人过程中最麻烦碰到的问题,它不外乎: 1、要找老师写推荐信已经很烦了,还要他填推荐表 2、申请的学校没有确定下来,要老师填好几次 对于问题1,我想最好的解决方法就是找好老师,和他说明情况,让他授权你写,此上计也;准备4-5份推荐表,让他写,目的让他有过推荐你的印象,然后再请宿舍其它G们帮忙填其它推荐表,你老师不可能记得推荐你去过哪些学校吧?此中计也;实在没办法,老师太严谨只好选出你最重点申请的学校让他写,当然不可能太多,他会烦的,此下计也。 对于问题2,我想任何一个深思熟虑的申请人都应该尽早的收集学校信息,如学校的GPA要求、GT要求、系的研究方向、资金情况、申请费等等,从而及早定下申请学校,我个人觉得最好在9月初定下申请学校,定下学校的好处就是你可以开始搞推荐信的事情了。 我把推荐信列于申请中的所有环节的第一位的原因很简单,老师很烦的,越早解决越好,本人去年10月初定下学校后,10月中找老师搞推荐,11月初老师写完所有推荐信。11月底-12月才开始寄出材料,结果1月左右才到达申请国,失去先动优势,此一不利也;申请过程中有很多很烦的事情,如填表(我认为这个最烦)、套词、改PS等等,这些可以和自己急,但推荐信你总不能和老师急吧?此二不利也。关于用ACROBAT填推荐表,我觉得这里有一个很重要的问题。就是这张表肯定是你先填说放弃看推荐信的权力再给老师的,因此不可能用PDF填,怎么可能你和你的老师用同一部机呢?还是你先在电脑上编辑完了再发给老师,然后他再接着你编辑后的PDF文件继续编辑?这是个很明显的逻辑性问题了,再说PDF填表很烦,个人建议不要用,就手填吧,而且中国老师有几个会用ACROBAT的? 很多推荐表都有填表和问答型式,其中填表型式容易,但你最好不要个个都打5%或2%那样的,除非你认为你的确很牛,GPA很高、有很多经历。而问答式我认为许多老师是不可能帮你一个问题一个问题答的,所以一般就和推荐信的正文附在一块就行了,实在不行就写一句“Please see my attached letter for detail”(当然,不能每个人都这样写吧,不然老外会觉得中国人怎么个个都心灵相通) (4)Personal Statement 即PS,不同学校叫法不一样。有的学校叫Statement of Intent(如Notre Dame,该校去年经济系重组没招人),有的叫Statement of Purpose(Columbia),但是不是一回事呢?我认为是不一样的,如果学校只要求写一篇个人的EASSY,那你的选材可以很广泛。如果学校是Statement of Intent/Purpose,那么你的重点应该放在为什么选这个学校?他的哪一块你认为对你以后的学习和研究最有帮助?你对你要concentrate的领域的看法,这一点很重要:比如一个北大的G们就写了GAME THEORY对国际贸易的作用: I am fascinated by game theoretic modeling of issues pertaining to International Economics. I believe that game theoretic models can be effectively used in international economics as many policy issues such as negotiations over mutual reductions in tariffs, formation and preservation of customs unions, establishment of cartels in the case of internationally traded goods, all have some game theoretic character. The current "Regionalism versus Multilateralism" debate holds its own attraction. It should be interesting to analyze the trade diversion effects of Preferential Trading Agreements and also their impact on multilateral institutions like GATT. The strategic trading that takes place in foreign exchange markets and the variety of auction like mechanisms that have been used for foreign exchange trade, especially in developing countries, are intriguing. During my graduate studies I aim to equip myself with some advanced tools and develop my analytical and research capabilities. I want to get an excellent command over econometrics to be able to confront stochastic statistical data with exact models of economic theories and also for empirical verification of other models, which might otherwise be set in a partial equilibrium framework. I expect to emerge as an economic engineer and an expert in model building. Econometrics perse, also interests me as a subject of economics and I might like to research in econometric methodology. 显然,他是看了克鲁格曼的战略性贸易理论深受启发,提出了自己的观点。 这是我自己谈金融方向的观点: I would like to concentrate on financial markets development, as I was always wondering whether those established theories apply to the behavior of developing countries or whether there are alternative models to explain such market behavior. What should be the appropriate strategy to ensure stable development of financial markets in developing countries? Can the lack of supporting funds be the reason for the huge volatility and low liquidity of the financial markets? Are there any common factors driving the market variations? … Sophisticated answers to these questions require sophisticated training, which I hope I can achieve in my advance study. Experiencing through the dramatic changes of the financial markets in China after the 1997 Asia financial crisis, I couldn’t have learned a better course of the financial fragility and the importance of managing risks. Therefore, I also have great interest on asset pricing and risk management, especially on how to use financial instruments to control risks in emerging markets. 我觉得在写Statement of Purpose的时候,最重要要谈自己个人的观点和见解,然后说自己将来打算怎么搞,这样才鲜明而显的有思想。我看以往申请人中大部分还是集中在写个人的成长历程那种模式的PS,如我是怎么样考上大学的,我在大学里面当过哪些官、我的成绩优异多次获得奖学金(这谁都会写,所以很不来劲,老外看多了一定会烦的,而且年年都还要看。。。) 所以很多申请的同学会问我没有自己的观点,怎么办?对!你说到点子上了,我去年这个时候也没有形成自己的观点。所以,你要多看书,最好看经济学/金融学相关的评论,不要杂,只要精,如前几年信息经济大行其道之时,很多人都看,几乎每个人都懂得“信息不对称”这个名词,,可实际上去研究起来,去解析整个GAME的模型却很难很难,,所以国外教授一眼就可以看出你的水平来。个人认为,在查阅经济学/金融学相关理论时一定要多看书(至少不该下于三本吧),经济学门派林立,有时不同的教授持有的观点是截然不同的,最经典就是Samuelson和那个哈椰克的,虽然观点相对立,却分享了同一年的诺贝尔经济学奖(也只有在经济学领域会出这等怪事了)。看的书多了,自然就会有自己的看法,选的书不要太难,不需要有太多的模型,然后谈谈自己的感受和想法,将来怎么做研究或做哪一块的研究。

作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-15 07:06

美国有没有单独的(非MBA)市场营销硕士学位?
悬赏分: 20分 提问时间: 2006-10-20 09:10:36 提问者: renyueshenhua
就是Master of Science in Marketing相类似的。我看到的好像都是MBA,需要工作经验的。有不需工作经验的市场营销类硕士么?有哪些排名前100的大学商学院提供这样的学位?
 
最佳答案
回答者:lixiaodaozi  
这样的学位有,比较少。但基于你的情况,我更想推荐你直接申请MBA,因为并不是前100名的大学都需要工作经验,尽管他们在招生说明里这样说。比如,我旁边的犹他大学UNIVERSITY OF UTAH,MBA也是50名左右,每年都招好多没有工作经验的中国学生。不必因为自己工作经验不足而放弃mba,毕竟,它比营销的就业范围广的多,两者在同一个学校又都是按照一样的费率收费的。这是很多学校不专门设置这个专业的原因。

其他答案
回答者:lanejane    2006-10-21 13:52:35
有这种学位,美国的商学院其实并不是只有mba,有很多其他学位,其中一些很有特色的,因为中国人一去美国商学院就是要读mba,这给大家造成了误解,有些别的专业很有前途。net_worm你可以去商学院的网站上找,也可以通过中介来办理。



作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-15 07:06

法国留学感想
 


  2001年,越申从上海中学毕业,没有考进第一志愿交大,便在上教留学法国部的帮助下,开始准备出国留学的申请工作。越申说,选择赴法留学的费用相对便宜,还有一点最重要的理由就是他喜欢法国。

  租房还能领到补贴


  2002年初,越申到了法国JeanMoulinLyon3(里昂的LYON3)读本科。越申说,Lyon3是公立大学,法律专业的排名在法国算是名列前茅的,但是因为法国大学数量多,也没有正式的官方排名,所以每所学校的教学质量和口碑都是见仁见智的。在选择专业时,越申考虑到数学一直不是自己强项,而对于广告和市场营销,自己却有着浓厚兴趣,于是,越申选择了Lyon3学校的文科。文科学校位于市中心,考虑到住房条件,越申在出国前就通过学校在当地租了房。由于父亲对法国的学校相当熟悉,越申的出国申请、接机安排、住房都被安排妥当,为此越申也很幸运地省去了很多留学生必经的麻烦。越申说,学校为他们租的房子在郊区,不过离地铁近,还是很方便的。每个学生住差不多10平方米的房子,共用厨房、WC和浴室,每个月越申的房租是250欧元,包括水电费用在内,去掉国家给的房补,每月的住房费用只有128欧元。在法国,留学生申请住房补助的方法也很简单。学生只需要拿着自己的护照和房东出示的证明,到办理房补的办事处递交材料,大约等上两三个星期,住房补助就申请成功了。只要是满足条件的,收入低于补助金额的学生都可以申请这项福利,如果是夫妇申请的话,住房补助还会更多,有时会高达房租的2/3。


  国内学的法语真灵


  在法国,本科不分很细的专业的,越申的专业叫AES(社会经济管理学)。学校通常分两种形式上课,一种叫CM———两三百人在AMPHITHEATRE(阶梯教室)上课;还有一种叫TD,是指20几个学生一起上的小课。可能因为公立大学的缘故,在学校,老师和学生的接触不多,一个学期下来,老师基本也只要求每位学生交两到三次作业,作业通常也都是放到考试前一起完成的。考试期一到,一切才都变得忙碌起来,因为考题都是要写长篇大论的主观论述题,一般一门考试就要考3个多小时。每到考试期间,越申就会将平时整理的一沓笔记再浓缩成几张纸的OUT鄄LINE,和同学一起讨论和复习。
  越申的法语不错,还在上海读高二时,他就利用暑假开始勤学法语。当时,法语学校的授课,一半时间是请外国语学院的中国老师授课,另一半时间是ALLIANCEFRANCAISE的老师教法语。在越申还没有出国前曾参加TEFALLIANCEFRANCAISE的考试,当时就拿了全校第一名。到了法国之后,第一年的预科也有INTENSE的法语课程,除此之外,每年2月,还有法国给外国学生的统一法语
  DAP考试。越申在法国读了1年预科后也参加了DAP的考试,以优异成绩通过后,又以高分通过了法国当地关于进入正式国家文凭系统的考试。所以,越申在法国的求学、考试都没有因为语言的问题而被耽误,相反,越申在法国的生活多姿多彩,多少也被渲染了点法国式的浪漫。


  感受美国教育


  2004年8月26日,越申以交流学生身份来到美国黄石公园附近的
MontanaStateUniversity学习一年。到了美国正逢美国大选,越申说,当地报纸上说,这一届的美国总统选举的两个候选人有着有史以来最泾渭分明的立场,不管是在外交还是内政,都是截然相反的。在美国的时候,几次有人打电话来调查,问越申是不是USCITIZEN(美国公民),他说不是,对方就说谢谢然后挂了电话。后来,越申也熟悉了类似的调查电话,拿起电话就直接说,“Hello,IamnotU.Scitizen,andIwon'tbe.”越申说,自己是学市场营销的,在他看来,大选实际上就是一场营销战而已。但是,这样的经历也让越申亲身体验了一场成功的市场营销。在Montana大学,学校可以自由选课,除了和自己专业相关的课程外,越申还多选了两门MARKETING的课。在美国,考试要比法国学校多,个人陈述的作业比起法国学校也要复杂许多。


  美国租房不如旅行


  在美国交流机会难得,越申说自己要好好利用这一年,彻底感受美国式生活。在美国,越申住的是学校公寓,一日三餐都由专人解决,才住了4个多月,房租已经花费掉了2900欧元。除去因为交流学生身份而免去的学费和每月300欧元的住房补助,每月700多欧元的房租还是让他入不敷出。越申说,圣诞节到了,学校要放一个月的假,如果在放假的时候住寝室,学校还要另收200美金的费用。之前感恩节4天的假期,学校也收了40美金的房钱。如果把假期的房租用作旅游,倒刚好收支平衡。越申说,自己是交流生,在美国只有一年的时间,以后什么时候再到美国还不知道,这次要把握机会长征一下,也算对得起自己交流生的宝贵身份!圣诞节一个月的假,他要先游遍美国东部,春假十天再看看有没有可能去Florida看看迪斯尼。暑假在5月26日,回国前再周游西海岸,这样游遍美国的美好计划就可以得以实施了。


  还是回法国读硕士

  考虑到留学美国的费用太昂贵,越申还是决定在完成为期一年的交流学习后,回到法国继续完成学业。从里昂学院毕业后,越申希望可以申请到法国排名第二的ESSEC高等商学院读硕士,因为那里的LUXURYBRANDMANAGEMENT奢侈品牌管理专业一直是越申十分向往的。


  文中接受采访的学生: 赵越申,2000年6月高中毕业于上海中学,在通过集中式法语培训后,以512分的高分通过法语TEF考试由上教留学法国部选送至法国里昂第三大学,并于2001年1月进入法国国立里昂第三大学预科学习。


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-15 07:06

二、  

Warwick大学的商科RAE评估是5 star。学费是14,700英镑。

Marketing专业是:MSc Marketing & Strategy

商学院的学生人数:

 

No. of Postgraduate Students
 3346
 
Number of Overseas Students
 1580
 
No. of Studentships and Award Holders
 approximately 110
 

 

华威大学的Marketing就业方向一般是management consultancy, advertising, marketing, business planning等。以及想以后读博士并在这个领域中进行研究的人群。华威M&S专业特色是结合了营销和策略, 主要以实践为主,

华威大学的Marketing专业入学要求很高,平均成绩必须达到80分以上才有申请下来的可能性,并且建议那些想申请这个专业的学生有相关的专业背景,最好是学过一些Marketing或是Strategy内容的课程,否则即使申请下来也是很难毕业的。尤其是那些数学基础不好的学生就不要考虑申请这个专业了。这个专业需要有很强的数学基础。而且课程内容倾向于理论的较多。以下是课程设置:

语言要求:

雅思7分,托福620/260/105

华威语言(WELT)成绩达到:BBB即可

Core modules:

Issues in Marketing Theory and Practice;
Research Methods for Marketing and Strategy;
Issues in Strategy Theory and Practice;
The Diffusion of New Products and Technologies;
Advanced Marketing and Strategy;
Economics of the Business Environment
A consultancy or research-led dissertation is undertaken in the third term and over the summer.

Assessment

Examinations, coursework and dissertation.

文章引用自:http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4d3a8c29010009di.html 


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纽卡斯尓大学MSc International Marketing

  国际市场营销课程是纽卡斯尓大学商学院2007年开设的新课程,基于纽卡斯尓大学本科市场学,管理学的强势科目及专业课程,为学生提供了全面理解市场学理论的机会,让学生在国际全球化的大环境下,以更高的专业水平来应对商业环境中的各种挑战

课程简介:  该课程学制一年,分为3个部分。第一部分包含市场营销和国际商务的核心原则和理论;第二部分为市场营销学专业课程,紧接其后学生将完成以市场学为主题的学位论文。

课程结构:该课程于九月底开课,课程教授部分将由九月底至五月中旬,随后学生将进行项目研究并于第二年九月初提交论文。 课程的讲授内容总共120个学分,函括第一和第二个学期。其中第一学期主要是基础课程的核心理论,如市场学,商业策略,财会与人力资源,所有课程都是以国际环境为背景,帮助学生与国际接轨,不拘于各国的市场环境。 第二学期学生将专至于国际市场学的研究,将开展国际市场营销,市场分析,国际品牌管理和国际市场交流管理等课程。随后学生将完成60学分的学位论文。

以上课程均为必修课程,同时在学习过程中可以选择同领域或跨领域学科的课程学习,拓宽学生的知识面,为成为一个国际化的人才打下良好的基础。

入学要求:相关专业背景,雅思6.5


相关信息:

 

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作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-15 07:06

申请商学院PhD总结 
 


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这个是我个人的经验和看法,难免掺杂个人感情,希望对有志申请商学院PhD的朋友有所帮助。

商学院PhD介绍
基本上上面那个介绍很全了,招PhD的学校不多,100个撑死了,不少前50名的商学院也不招phd (比如dartmouth,ND似乎也没有)。每个系招人不多,很多program都是只要2个人,finance可能招得多一点,一般招3-4个到7,8个不等。还有就是很多学校没有waiting  list,只管发offer,这样造成实际录取的PhD远远少于实际计划招生数量,比如cornell  marketing,去年发了2个offer,结果没人去。Duke marketing发了12个offer,最后只有2个人去了(他们肯定有经验了,实际上容不下这么多吧)。一旦有几个极牛的人把牛校申请个遍,其他比较牛的人拿offer的可能性就很小了。及其faint。如果是国际学生,只要招了你,基本上会提供全奖。学制一般4-5年,不过还也有读6-7年没毕业的。跟MBA完全不是一会事。很多人对商学院有误解,认为商学院就要结合实际,做些实际的研究,实际上,在顶级的商学院,做的工作都是非常理论的。如果做实际的工作,拿到tenure的可能性很小。给MBA 上课的有两类教授,一类是纯理论的,另外一类是从industry请来的兼职教授(这种都是临时请的)。

申请商学院PhD的竞争对手
首先当然是美国土著,他们的优势没得说,毕竟商学院很大的一个因素是要看语言和交流能力的。而且很多土著读本科的时候就给商学院的教授做TA,RA,所以他们一旦申请,都有极牛的推荐。其次是在美国读书的中国人,太多了,不说了。他们的优势是语言和美国的文凭。还有是阿三们,他们的优势也很明显,语言先天比我们强,而且商学院的faculty中阿三极多,中国人很少。你想,一个阿三和一个中国人差不多的申请材料摆在那里,阿三教授会要谁。所以你跟国内的人比没什么大的意义,第一也不能保证offer。商学院录取有个特点,每个学校的标准千差万别,任何一方面的突出成绩不能保证教授欣赏,所以只要你有特别的亮点,你就有希望。

申请
是否要申请商学院PhD
首先要看自己的兴趣,如果你希望以后去industry工作,那么不要申请,浪费时间,工作几年申请MBA要好得多;如果你现在还不知道自己以后要做什么,还是先工作几年吧,反正申请成功的希望也不大。
然后看自己的背景:
1)。有没有3.8以上的本科GPA,top学校毕业,rankings top 5%
2)。有没有很牛的推荐,国内背景的基本上没用
3)。很牛的英文论文,国内的没用,除非你发了10篇20篇,看list人家可能感觉你很牛了。
这个有点难,经管类能够在serious的英文刊物上发paper的实在太少,博导们也没几个有吧。
4)。有没有很牛的工作背景。
如果一条都没有,不要申请。有也不可沾沾自喜,还早得很。我这里没有提scores,这些都是很次要的东西,gre2100,gmat 680, toefl 620只是基本要求而已。再说了,都接近满分也没多大用处。
最后要看自己的信心和期望。如果你有足够的信心自己的背景在一堆堆名校毕业gpa3.8,scores 95%以上的学生中standout,让看材料的教授眼睛一亮,那就申请吧。如果不是,那么请往下看是不是符合以下条件之一
1)。不care申请费
2)。不一定要申请成功
3)。没别的专业可申请了
如果是那就试一试吧。
其实如果学经管类的,不申请商学院PhD,还有很多专业可以申请,经济学、工业工程,管理科学与工程以及社会科学各专业。

通过以上分析,如果你觉得还是应该申请,那么下面的工作就是开始定位选校。因为商学院招人少,基本策略是广种薄收,申请20-30所很正常,不管你背景多牛,一般能够拿到1-2个就很成功了。

选专业。其实这个有点可笑,如果申请的时候专业方向还没定,那还申请什么劲啊。不过感觉国内很多申请的人申请的时候,真的还没有专业(包括很多硕士)。商学院从大陆直接招人最多的是OM,基本上大陆直接拿到的offer大部分都是这个专业。其他专业寥寥几个。

如果以前的背景是学经济学的,可以申请OM,MIS或者商学院的business economics或者managerial economics,今年北大就有直接拿到northwestern的business economics的,去年有拿到stanford的poliy analysis的(这些其实是经济学了)。中国人一般数学比较好,所以申请的时候申请需要quantitative analysis的专业或者方向有点优势,而behavioral 的就比较吃亏了。上面提到的OM, MIS或者BE都是要求数学功底的,而象Organizational  behavior这样的专业尽管不是热门,但是有很大的文化差异,申请也不是很容易,当然不排除正好有教授想做中国的OB研究,或者X-cultural的研究。再说说MIS这个专业,国内的人都认为是计算机相关,但这似乎只说对了一小半。MIS是做信息系统的,但是绝对不是信息技术,它由三大块组成,一块是数学建模,一块是行为分析,还有一块才是信息技术(application,方案)。每个学校的MIS专业有偏重,如果是技术背景,可能申请GIT,RPI 这种工科背景的学校好一点。 Finance的难度可想而知,作为商学院最热门的专业,竞争可谓激烈,不过中国人数学好世人皆知,所以每年还是有些人能够拿到的。不过finance这两年的job market(academic)有饱和的趋势。Finance背景的人最好申请accounting,竞争相对小,工作也好找。Marketing在商学院也比较热门,如果想申请,没有特别的背景,建议申请quantitative方向。分析自己的背景,选择跟背景相符的专业,多浏览学校网站,了解faculty的研究方向。

选好学校后,不急着申请,可以跟系里的教授(或者chair或者coordinator,或者其他感兴趣的教授)联系联系,商学院陶瓷套上的可能性很小,因为没有哪个教授特别需要劳工。但是至少可以增加印象,还有就是了解招生情况。因为很多系根本就不招人,或者已经有意向了(你想想,如果只招1-2个人,某个教授本校的RA要申请,你还有希望么?)。这样至少可以不无谓的浪费钱财。

定位
顶级的学校(Harvard, stanford, Wharton, northwestern, Chicago,mit)的传统专业
(finance, marketing, accounting, OB),如果你没有离奇的背景就不要申请了,选一两
个试试运气也行。重点放在15-50位的学校,50以后的学校也少申请,留着钱申请其他专业吧。越差的学校招的人越少,很多可能都只招1个人,老早定了本校的本科生了。OM比较牛的学校倒是都要中国人的,michigan,purdue,cmu之类每年都有大陆offer。大概最友善的要数michigan了,商学院每年都从大陆直接招人,清华,北大,中央财经,交大,上海财大都有,好像今年michigan OM要了两个大陆的。还有MIS, austin, Uarizona这些前5的学校也是经常招中国人的。推荐几个排名50以后但是PhD还不错的学校u of houston,有钱,招的人也不少,上升的学校(不过他们申请费150刀,他们老早就给我面试,不过考虑到申请费,最后还是没有申请。。。), u of Missouri Columbia, 中国人不少。

申请的过程中,多联系,如果能够电话联系最好(这一招我没试过,谁叫我口语烂呢)。从那么多学生中挑几个人对教授也是一件艰巨的任务,为什么不充分展示自己,简化他们的任务呢?绝大部分商学院会面试,口语不好的话肯定没戏,越是顶尖的商学院,对口语的要求越高。

寄完材料后可以准备准备面试,想些新的点子,跟教授聊天的时候乏味的陈述自己的精力有什么意思,这一点可以跟story探讨探讨。其实申请商学院运气太重要了,教授看学生的材料对成绩已经很麻木了,往往制胜的因素是一些细微的特征,比如MM们照片是不是顺眼,P.S. 的字体是不是看上去很爽,教授看材料那天是不是在街上陶刀bargain,哈哈。。。

实际操作中,很多人都是申请一部分economics或IE再加上一部分B-school。这种策略是对的,建议主申economics或者IE,适当的试试商学院。再来讲讲推荐信,很多人认为搞到美国教授的推荐信就会有很大的帮助。其实不然,推荐信还是要看推荐人跟你的关系的,如果是泛泛之交,基本没什么好处,万一信里面有点什么不好的就彻底玩完。如果你能够找到一起工作过的教授写,那就很有说服力了,比如,你在中欧给xx教授做RA,然后让她写推荐。今年北大有个小本本,GPA3.87,TG都不错,TSE50,2篇国际会议论文,还参加了Tufts大学的一个项目,看看她的推荐信吧:一份MIT商学院著名教授的,一份法国toulouse大学拉丰的得意门生的(也是一个著名的经济学家),还有一份财政部副部长的,申请了一些商学院都被拒(其中就有insead的DS,拿到这个offer的朋友成绩应当没她好,但是人家有国际背景)。
我就问她,这些人跟你什么关系?她说都是泛泛之交而已。我找不出其他的原因。当然她还 是拿到economics不错的offer,不过凭她的成绩应当就能拿到。

最后点评一下我自己申请的情况
一共申请了11个学校(谁叫我没银子呢),2个social psychology,因为这个很早感觉没什么问题,所以本来想多申请一些商学院的,后来想想都不是很牛的商学院,也就罢了。商学院我申请的是behavior方向,有management(decision making)和marketing  (consumer behavior)两个专业Marketing:Florida,INSEAD, Austin,U of Colorado- boulder, Penn state, University of Georgia, University of South Carolina。
Management: Duke,university of Arizona,最开始重点放在duke,austin,florida。
florida是consumer behavior中information processing的老巢,都是牛人,要求极高,
每个申请者都要提交一片指定的journal paper review,我偷懒了,而且我的背景
(behavioral decisiong making)跟他们不是一个学派,轻松被拒。他们大概会招3个人,
consumer behavior方向应当有2个以上。Florida有几个中国学生。系里有一个中国教授,做new product development之类的,中国学生大概是他招的,方向基本上都是这个。austin在marketing应当算前10吧,里面的教授大部分都做consumer behavior,florida 的学生很多,掌握大权,也轻松被拒。招2-4个人。里面没有中国教授,好像没有招中国人。UCBoulder一直联系不上,根本就不知道Y要不要人。本来不想申请,可是方向很match。最后冷冷的来封拒信,听人说B-SCHOOL MIS就不招人,也不知道MARKETING最后招了人没有。

Penn state强的是marketing model, consumer behavior一般般,因为跟里面一个最牛的
教授吃过一顿饭,就申请了,最后被拒。招2-3个人。不过这个学校我老早知道他们有意招个中国人,去年一个交大的MBA本来希望很大,一些细节没搞好被拒。今年招了一个大陆的,复旦小硕。pennstate有个复旦生物毕业的校友faculty。SC和UGA纯粹是为了保底,没联系过,感觉一点希望都没有,没有中国教授,应当没有招
中国人。INSEAD我倒是一直没有联系,结果没有面试给了我offer。后来听说是打电话给我一个推荐人了。方向很match,在会议上碰到个一个里面的教授,但是没有交流过。应当是招了3个人。

Duke在behavior方面应当是最强的了。结果duke发了10个左右的offer(他们没有waiting list,10个到最后去的能有3个就不错了),尽管见过他们的coordinator,他也给我提过很好的意见,最后还是没要我,伤心。他们似乎不从大陆直接招人。系里没有中国教授。

Uarizona应当是属于很match的那种,人也比较熟悉。他们给我打过2个电话,最后INSEAD给我offer了他们才说决定给我offer, 直接就拒了。似乎顶多招2个人。如果看综合排名的话,结果还是比较理想的,MBA排名INSEAD在所有申请的学校中是最高的,PhD的话,INSEAD应当仅次于Duke。但是毕竟不在美国。遗憾。Florida给我offer的话,我会屁颠屁颠就去了,呵呵。

其他没有申请的marketing系consumer behavior比较强的学校有牛:northwestern, 
Wharton, Chicago, Stanford,UCLA (有个中国教授这个方向)其他:, USC, 
Pittsburgh, HKUST, Utah,根据了解到的情况,大陆申请到marketing PhD offer的只知
道一个insead和psu,还有个人说拿到drexel marketing PhD的offer,呵呵,都不知道他们有PhD。还有就是清华的一个毕业生,港科大硕士毕业拿到了Ucberkeley和Chicago 
marketing的offer,无数牛。Insurance清华有个本科拿到wharton的offer,据说亮点是参加了北美精算师考试,过了几门。北大的一个拿到kellogg,Finance大概有几个不是特别好的学校,OM比较多,michigan, austin。。。

 


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-15 07:07

Marketing 专业介绍

英国大学商科专业比较好的大学有(根据2001年英国RAE教育质量评估标准来说的)

Lancaster,London Business School,Warwick;Aston;Bath; Manchester; Nottingham; Reading; Cardiff; Birkbeck College; Birmingham; Bradford; Brunel; Cranfield; Exeter; King’s college London;

一、  曼彻斯特大学的MSc Marketing

http://www.manchester.net.cn/ 曼彻斯特大学免费自助申请网

 

RAE商科评价是5,申请费是50英镑,学费是13,650。根据07年的入学标准,给申请者20%的学费减免政策。学费是13,650英镑。

Manchester Institute of Science & Technology合并之后,据说他的商学院是欧洲第一大的。入学要求很高,是唯一一所明确要求学生是中国211学校毕业并且有很好的平均成绩以及在校排名。申请者最好在平均分85分以上才有可能被录取。

 

 语言要求雅思7分,托福623分/263分(机考)。最好能提供Gmat成绩。如果GMAT能够达到650或GRE1300分以上无疑会增加你的竞争实力。

曼大的marketing 专业有点偏向理论,如techniques of data collection and analysis,  不过他的课程毕业后的学生以后的就业中会更有竞争性,并且无论是在商业或是商业管理以及大学的研究中都比较实用。

 

课程详细内容:Programmes

MSc Marketing – Programme structure All taught course units are 15 credits.

Semester one

 

Marketing fundamentals (提供Marketing的理论基础,如营销市场的规则等等)

Marketing implementation; (讲的是实际应用,如何促进消费者购买)

Marketing strategy and New product Development

Generic Research Methods

Qualitative and quantitative Data analysis


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-16 07:07

Cranfield SOM Marketing 课程介绍(兼Marketing专业申请参考)
这里有很多同学在考虑学Marketing或者已经拿到offer。很多帖子都在讨论择校的问题,不知道有多少同学问过Marketing到底是什么,Marketing有些什么,我能从Marketing中学到什么。根据自己学习MKT的过程,我总结了下MKT的课程及其学习目的和一些体会,希望能帮助大家理解MKT的一些领域,在决定大方向和申请时候能有用。对于对MKT有兴趣的同学,也可以来作为自学的参考。本文没有推荐阅读书目是因为学校的书大多是国内买不到的书,所以推荐的意义不大,感兴趣的可以自己找些相关主题的书。如果是准备自学的话可以找中文的;如果是准备出来读这科的,建议读原版的为主,一来提高自己阅读水平,二来根据个人经验,MKT专业书的翻译水平参差不齐,容易水土不服。
阅读指南:
英文的段落为课程的原始大纲,中文的为学习目的的翻译加自己的体会。下面的推荐指数为个人评价,并且和老师的上课和理念有关,纯属娱乐,各位同学可以自己去进一步探索寻找自己的兴趣。每个学校都有自己的教学理念,有不同的课程组合,一切根据自己的兴趣来,盲目的横向比较是没有意义的。
背景介绍:
关于专业的背景可参考以前的一些帖子,在此不重复了,单说这一届的班级。一共30个人,华人一共7个。全班平均年龄是27岁,有工作经验的学历和工作背景都不同,有制造业,有IT,有快速消费品,有媒体,有金融。无工作经验的大多是商科背景,英国学生有从DURHAM的,也有从LOUGHBOROUGH来的。
作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-16 07:07

MBA细分专业的概述
较早以前的资料了,不过还是适用于现在的MBA专业分类。我个人感觉写的还是比较全面的,对于正在选择学校选择专业的朋友可以提供一些有用的信息。一起分享。
1. Accounting

What do accountants do?
Accountants offer a wide array of business and accounting services including public, management, and government accounting, as well as internal auditing. In each of these major fields, accountants and auditors prepare, analyze, and verify financial documents in order to provide information to clients.
Public Accountants: Public accountants perform a broad range of accounting, auditing, tax, and consulting activities for their clients, who may be corporations, governments, nonprofit organizations, or individuals.
Consultants: Consultants offer advice in areas such as compensation or employee health care benefits; the design of accounting and data processing systems; and the selection of controls to safeguard assets.
Forensic Accountants: Forensic accountants investigate and interpret bankruptcies and other complex financial transactions.
Management Accountants: Management accountants record and analyze a corporation''''s financial information in addition to budgeting, performance evaluation, cost management, and asset management.
Public Sector Accountants: Government accountants and auditors maintain and examine the records of government agencies and audit private businesses and individuals whose activities are subject to government regulations or taxation.
What degree options are available in accounting?
Undergraduates can earn a bachelor’s degree in accounting or take accounting classes as part of a business degree. MBA students can choose concentrations in accounting, and some schools offer master1s degree in accountancy (MAcc).
What's the difference between a master's in accounting and an MBA with an accounting concentration?
While both an MBA with a focus on accounting and a Master of Accounting (MAcc) degree will prepare you to assume managerial positions within the field of accounting, the MBA degree will provide you with more general skills that are transferable to other areas. The MAcc will provide you with greater accounting expertise and will prepare candidates for the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam, but fewer transferable skills. Some MBA programs provide candidates with sufficient credit hours required to sit for the CPA exam. The MBA degree''''s broad curriculum also helps accountants with client management and other strategic issues in performing their jobs, especially in management advisory services.
What will I study?
The MAcc curriculum generally includes preparation for the CPA exam, and the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) examination, in addition to courses in financial and managerial accounting, research, business valuation, cost management, information systems, auditing, policy, taxation, and consulting services. MBA curriculum with an accounting concentration emphasizes general management and business coursework as well as in depth accounting applications and concepts.
What skills are necessary to work in the field of accounting?
Certification and licensure in accounting and auditing are standard requirements for employment in this field. Successful accountants and auditors are generally detail-oriented, highly motivated researchers, and knowledgeable about U.S. and international tax laws, economics and money markets. In addition to self-confidence, maturity, and the ability to work independently, candidates for accounting positions need a broad range of skills including:
Excellent mathematical and computer skills
Excellent analytic and problem solving skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Strong interpersonal skills
What career paths do MBA or MAcc graduates follow?
Many graduates enter into the profession as financial analysts or internal auditors in such areas as financial planning, resource allocation, and management information systems. Beginning public accountants usually start by assisting with work for several clients. Those who excel may become supervisors, managers, partners, open their own public accounting firms, or transfer to executive positions in management accounting or internal auditing in private firms. Management accountants often start as cost accountants, junior internal auditors, or as trainees for other accounting positions. As they rise through the organization, they may advance to accounting manager, chief cost accountant, budget director, or manager of internal auditing. Some become controllers, treasurers, financial vice presidents, chief financial officers, or corporation presidents. In general, there is a large degree of mobility among public accountants, management accountants, and internal auditors. Practitioners often shift into management accounting or internal auditing from public accounting, or between internal auditing and management accounting.
What certification or training is necessary for a career in accounting?
Professional recognition through certification or licensure provides a distinct advantage in the job market. All CPAs must have a certificate and the partners in their firm must have licenses issued by a State Board of Accountancy. The vast majority of States require CPA candidates to be college graduates, but a few States substitute a number of years of public accounting experience for the college degree. Nearly all States require CPAs and other public accountants to complete a certain number of hours of continuing professional education before their licenses can be renewed. Voluntary certification can attest to professional competence in a specialized field of accounting and auditing. Graduates from accredited colleges and universities who have worked for 2 years as internal auditors and have passed a four-part examination may earn the designation Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) from the Institute of Internal Auditors.

What's the overall career outlook for accountants?
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of accountants and auditors is expected to grow about 10 to 20 percent through the year 2008. As the economy grows, more accountants and auditors will be needed to set up books, prepare taxes, and provide management advice. In response to market demand, these accounting professionals will offer more management and consulting services as they take on a greater advisory role and develop more sophisticated and flexible accounting systems. Also, internal auditors will increasingly be needed to discover and eliminate waste and fraud. Competition is keen for the most prestigious jobs in major accounting and business firms, but graduates with a master''''s degree in accounting or a master''''s in business administration will have a distinct advantage in the job market.
2.  e-commerce

What do employees in e-Commerce fields do?
Students with backgrounds in e-Commerce typically work in Information Technology (IT) fields, often as the managers of IT infrastructures. They can also oversee the development and marketing of Internet web sites as project managers. Graduates of e-Commerce programs leave school prepared to fill positions in the technical staffs of corporations.
I do not have a background in Computer Science. Will an e-Commerce MBA be too technical for me?
While a Master’s in e-Commerce might require greater familiarity with IT concepts, most e-Commerce and e-Business programs are designed for traditional MBA students in addition to those with IT experience.
What degree options are available in this area?
Undergraduates can earn a Bachelor’s in e-Commerce or e-Business. Graduate students can earn a Master of Science in e-Commerce or an MBA with an e-Commerce or e-Business concentration.
What is the difference between a Master’s Degree in e-Commerce and an MBA with a concentration in e-Commerce?
The basic difference between these two options is that the master’s degree is highly specialized and will allow you to focus almost exclusively on computer science and business administration. In contrast, an MBA program will permit you to develop a general set of management skills as well as e-Commerce knowledge. There are advantages to each: a master’s program will enable you to delve into e-Commerce issues in greater depth; an MBA program will allow you to spend your first year developing a set of skills that can be transferred to other areas.
While both a master’s degree and an MBA concentration will prepare you to hold management positions within the field of e-Commerce, master’s programs are designed to help you become a leader in technology management and integration. In contrast, an MBA degree may also qualify you to hold management positions in other fields, should you become interested in a different career.
What subjects will I study?
As an e-Commerce student, you will study traditional business topics like finance, accounting and marketing, but your coursework will emphasize Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Your studies will probably include classes on e-management, electronic marketing marketing, online business strategies, MIS, web site development and IT applications. Students with IT backgrounds may take advanced computer science courses as well.
What careers do e-Commerce students pursue?
e-Commerce graduates can assume management roles in e-Business and e-Commerce fields, including operations, marketing, technical support and administration. Many become consultants for large corporations that want to incorporate internet business into their strategic plans. Companies may need you to improve B2B online transactions, vitalize internet product sales, or research e-Commerce competition.
What’s the overall career outlook for this field?
e-Commerce has suffered setbacks since the failure of many startup dot-coms, but the overall demand for business managers with information technology backgrounds should not decrease in the long run. The marketplace has changed dramatically with the introduction of companies like ebay and Amazon.com; most companies now recognize that they must develop and maintain e-Business programs in order to remain competitive. Consequently, the need for employers with e-Commerce skills remains. E-Commerce opens up entirely new business opportunities around the world; as old market practices incorporate new technologies, the field will increase in importance.


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-16 07:08

3. Entrepreneurship
What do entrepreneurs do? Entrepreneurs have many options: they can be business owners and managers, venture capitalists, or small business consultants. In addition, some become intrapreneurs within established companies.
What is intrapreneurship?
Intrapreneurs work within corporations to develop new products, increase innovation, and build employee morale. Intrapreneurship appeals to some because it allows them to pursue creative business ideas with the support of a large company’s resources.
What degree options are available in this area?
Some schools offer undergraduate degrees in Entrepreneurship. In addition, graduate students can earn an MBA with an entrepreneurship concentration.
What subjects will I study?
Entrepreneurship MBAs are encouraged to draw upon their creative potential as they learn to build ventures. They are prepared to manage different stages of growth for business enterprises. Entrepreneurship programs allow you to focus on the specific business skills needed to bring an early stage company or small business to life. In addition to the core MBA course, you may take classes in entrepreneurial management, growth strategies, venture financing, cash flow management, and market research.
Many MBA programs offer students chances to work with small businesses; some also give top MBA students opportunities to launch their own ventures in the second year of study.
What skills will I need?
In addition to an overall comprehension of business administration, entrepreneurs should have:
Business savvy: You must understand business theories and practices to build a successful venture. Although some entrepreneurs have not attended graduate school, others believe that an MBA provides small business managers with invaluable administration skills.
Innovation and creativity: Creativity is imperative to entrepreneurs. How will your business stand out from its competition? Your venture may benefit from the introduction of new products, public relations techniques, or even new management practices. It will be up to you to determine what is best for your business.
People skills: As an entrepreneur, you will be the one who pitches products to potential investors or assists customers during sales. Understanding the needs of clients is crucial to your success, as is the ability to communicate with your partners and supporters.
The ability to multitask: Even if you start a business with other partners, you will probably have to tackle a range of tasks in different areas before the venture returns enough capital to hire additional employees. You may meet with potential clients in the morning, then design advertisements at the office during the evening.
The ability to take risks: Starting your own venture always entails uncertainty. You will put your own business reputation on the line, donating personal time and effort to build a customer base. Moreover, a new business requires sizeable financial investments – a start-up is not easy, but the opportunity to manage business operations is probably worth the risk.
What’s the overall career outlook for this field?
Entrepreneurs have always been the backbone of the American economy. Today’s corporate conglomerates were started by men and women with innovative – even outlandish – ideas who had the dedication to make their new ventures thrive. As an entrepreneur, you will be a leader in the business community, whether you take over the family business, purchase or start your own venture, or work within a larger company to revitalize its practices.
4. Finance

What do finance professionals do?
A tremendous range of opportunities for finance professionals can be found in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Most in the financial services industry are employed in such areas as commercial banking, corporate finance, financial planning, investment banking, money managing, insurance, and real estate. Also, almost every firm, government agency, and organization have financial managers who oversee the preparation of financial reports, direct investment activities, and implement cash management strategies.
Commercial Banking: A career in commercial banking offers opportunities in financial management, accountancy and auditing, securities, commodities, and financial services sales, as well as in financial and credit analysis.
Corporate Finance: Employees working in corporate finance find the money to run the business, grow the business, make acquisitions, plan for it''''s financial future and manage any cash on hand.
Financial Planning: Financial planners help individuals plan their financial futures.
Insurance: Jobs in insurance involve helping individuals and business manage risk to protect themselves from catastrophic losses and to anticipate potential risk problems. A variety of areas in insurance include work as an underwriter, a sales representative, an asset manager, or an actuary.
Investment Banking: Investment bankers help companies and governments issue securities, help investors purchase securities, manage financial assets, trade securities and provide financial advice.
Money Management: Money managers hold stocks and bonds for institutional clients.
Real Estate: In the real estate fields many are employed such areas as title insurance, construction, mortgage banking, property management, real estate appraisals, brokerage and leasing, and real estate development.
What degree options are available in finance?
Undergraduates can earn a bachelor1s degree in finance or take finance classes as part of a business degree. MBA students can choose concentrations in finance, and some schools offer master’s degrees in finance or PhD programs.
What's the difference between a master's in finance and an MBA with a finance concentration?
The basic difference between these two options is that a master’s in finance is a highly specialized degree that will allow you to focus almost exclusively on issues related to finance. In contrast, an MBA program will allow you to develop a general set of management skills in addition to specific finance knowledge. There are advantages to each: a master1s program will enable you to delve into finance issues in greater depth; an MBA program is will allow you to spend your first year developing a set of skills that can be transferred to other areas. While both a master1s degree and an MBA concentration will prepare you to hold management positions within the field of finance at some point in your career, an MBA degree may also qualify you to hold management positions in other fields, should you become interested in a different career.
What will I study?
Coursework generally covers statistics, economics, accounting policies and procedures, corporate budgeting, and financial analysis methods. Advanced courses in options pricing or bond valuation and knowledge of risk management are often covered. Courses in investments, taxes, estate planning, and risk management also are helpful.
What skills are necessary to work in the field of finance?
Financial professionals must be detail-oriented, highly motivated researchers, and knowledgeable about U.S. and international tax laws, economics and money markets. In addition to self-confidence, maturity, and the ability to work independently, candidates for financial industry positions need a broad range of skills including:
Excellent mathematical and computer skills
Excellent analytic and problem solving skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Strong interpersonal skills
What certification or licensing is necessary?
A college degree, and in most cases an MBA, is recommended for a career in the finance industry. A license is not required to work as a personal financial advisor, but advisors who sell stocks, bonds, mutual funds, insurance, or real estate, may need licenses to perform these additional services. Certification, although not required for financial analysts or personal financial advisors to practice, can enhance professional standing and is strongly recommended by many financial companies. Financial analysts may receive the title Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and personal financial advisors may obtain a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) or Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) designation. Both titles demonstrate to potential customers that a planner has extensive training and competency in the area of financial planning.
As an MBA graduate what career options will I have in finance?
The financial field offers many possibilities to MBAs, but the most sought after jobs are within corporate finance, investment banking, and securities firms. Finance MBAs often go into the corporate world as Financial Analysts or Investment Banking Associates. Other careers for MBAs are in asset management, equities research, and private client services. Many MBAs become management consultants with expertise in cash management, restructuring and workouts, emerging markets, or strategy. MBAs on the corporate side may aspire to careers that lead to corporate treasury, and ultimately the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) role in the corporation. Financial analysts may advance by becoming portfolio managers or financial managers, directing the investment policies of their companies or those of clients. Personal financial advisors who work in firms also may move into managerial positions, but most advisors advance by accumulating clients and managing more assets.
What's the overall career outlook in finance?
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics, increased investment by businesses and individuals is expected to result in faster-than-average employment growth of finance professionals through 2010. However, competition is expected to be keen for these highly lucrative positions. The majority of salaried advisors and analysts work for security and commodity brokers, exchanges, and investment services firms. Candidates with a master''''s degree should have the best job opportunities. Familiarity with computer financial software packages also should enhance a jobseeker''''s employment prospects.


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-16 07:08


5. General Management

What do general managers do?
General managers and top executives plan, organize, direct, control, and coordinate the operations of an organization and its major departments or programs. Although they have a wide range of titles such as chief executive officer, president, executive vice president, owner, partner--- all formulate policies and direct the operations of businesses and corporations. The nature of high level executives'''' responsibilities depends upon the size of the organization. In large organizations, their duties are highly specialized. In smaller organizations, such as independent retail stores or small manufacturers, a partner, owner, or general manager is often also responsible for purchasing, hiring, training, quality control, and day-to-day supervisory duties.
What degree options are available in general managment?
Undergraduates can earn a bachelor1s degree in management or take courses in management as part of a business degree. MBA students can choose a concentration in management, and some schools offer master1s degrees and PhDs in general management.
What's the difference between a Master of General Management and an MBA with a general management concentration?
While both an MBA with a focus on management and a Master of General Management degree will prepare you to assume managerial positions within the business world, the MBA degree will provide you with more general skills that are transferable to other areas. The master''''s in management will provide you with greater management expertise, but will provide you with fewer transferable skills. The MBA degree''''s broad curriculum also helps managers integrate the different functions within a company.
What will I study?
Students in MBA programs with a management concentration will most likely study everything from marketing, international economics, entrepreneurship, information systems, microeconomics, finance, in addition to managerial accounting, human resources management, leadership, statistics and management science.
What skills are necessary to work in the field of general management?
Managers with strong leadership qualities and the ability to improve the efficiency or competitive position of an organization are most successful. An analytical mind able to quickly assess large amounts of information and data is very important, as is the ability to consider and evaluate the interrelationships of numerous factors. General managers and top executives must also be able to communicate clearly and persuasively. Other qualities critical for managerial success include leadership, self-confidence, motivation, decisiveness, flexibility, sound business judgment, and determination.

What is a typical career path for an General Management-MBA graduate?
General managers often have experience in a particular field, such as accounting or engineering and are promoted to general management positions as their skills progress. Many general manager and top executive positions are filled by promoting experienced, lower level managers when an opening occurs, and many are promoted from within the organization. Advancement may be accelerated by participating in company training programs that focus on company policy and operations.
General managers may advance to top executive positions, such as executive vice president, in their own firm or they may take a corresponding position in another firm. They may even advance to peak corporate positions such as chief operating officer or chief executive officer. Chief executive officers often become members of the board of directors of one or more firms, typically as a director of their own firm and often as chair of its board of directors. Some top executives establish their own firms or become independent consultants.
What's the overall career outlook for general management?
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, projected employment growth of top executives varies by industry, however, keen competition is expected for top executive positions because the prestige and high pay attract a large number of qualified applicants. Many openings occur each year as executives transfer to other positions, start their own businesses, or retire. Salaries vary substantially by type and level of responsibilities and by industry. According to a salary survey done by Executive Compensation Reports, a division of Harcourt Brace & Company, the median salary for CEOs of public companies from the fiscal year 1998 Fortune 500 list was approximately $800,000. Three quarters of CEOs in the nonprofit sector made under $100,000 in 1998, according to a survey by Abbott, Langer, & Associates.
6. Human Resource Management

What do employees in human resource management do?
Human Resource managers play critical roles not only in the selection, training, and evaluation of employees, but also in the establishment of organizational structures (for example, through the development of managerial hierarchies). They may develop compensation packages or handle questions about workforce laws and regulations.
HR managers can manage employees in private and public sectors. They can also work within a company or as private contractors to advise corporations on anticipated organizational change.
What degree options are available in this area?
Undergraduates can earn a Bachelor’s in HR Management. Graduate students can earn a Master’s Degree in HR Management or an MBA with a concentration in HR Management
What is the difference between a Master’s Degree in HR Management and an MBA with a concentration in HR Management?
The basic difference between these two options is that the master’s degree is highly specialized and will allow you to focus almost exclusively on human resource management. In contrast, an MBA program will permit you to develop a general set of management skills in other areas while you learn about human resource practices. There are advantages to each: a master’s program will enable you to delve into human resource issues in greater depth; an MBA program will allow you to spend your first year developing a set of skills that can be transferred to other areas.
While both a master’s degree and an MBA concentration will prepare you to hold management positions, master’s programs are designed to help you become a leader in human resources. In contrast, an MBA degree may also qualify you to hold management positions in other fields, should you become interested in a different career.
What subjects will I study?
MBA programs in human resource management focus on the skills that are required to be effective organizational managers. Traditionally, students learned about managing human resources; now, however, emphasis is also placed upon organizational behavior and information systems management.
As an HR MBA, you might study human resource development, the legal aspects of management, and strategic human resource management. You will also become familiar with the social, cultural, and economic factors that influence employee relations. Furthermore, you will learn how to assess and improve essential components of company operations, including compensation, benefits, salary negotiations and safety standards.
What skills will I need?
In addition to an overall comprehension of business administration, HR MBAs should have:
Legal knowledge: HR managers have to deal with complex aspects of company business, including layoffs, salary adjustments and labor disputes. All HR managers need to understand laws and regulations, like the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, that affect the workforce. Companies cannot risk violating these laws and rely on HR departments to keep up-to-date with any regulatory changes.
People skills: Tact is an essential HR trait: you must be able to have forthright discussions with employees about earnings, job performance, and future opportunities. If you are involved with labor or salary negotiations, you must be a strong mediator who can find common ground between diverse points of view. Understanding employee needs is crucial to your success, as is the ability to make difficult, well-planned decisions.
Communication skills: Since you may oversee the development of human resource policies, you should be a proficient speaker and writer. Clarity is fundamental in the HR field.
What careers do HR MBAs pursue?
HR MBAs have many career choices. According to the GMAC, graduates with significant business experience fill management positions in strategic operations, while most MBAs accept roles in diverse HR fields. The GMAC notes that some popular careers include:
Recruiters: Recruiters are an essential part of a company’s human resource team. As a recruiter, you may research prospective candidate pools, conduct interviews, and evaluate potential employees.

Compensation managers: A position as a compensation manager may appeal to you if you enjoy accounting and finance. You will manage the company’s compensation plan, researching industry trends and regulations to be sure that your salaries remain competitive.
International HR managers: An international HR position enables you to work with company personnel in a multinational corporation. You may start out in a domestic position before moving to a higher level job in another country. Some international managers oversee employee relations in several branch offices worldwide, each of which has its own HR manager on site.
What kinds of firms employ HR MBAs?
It is difficult to find a company that does not have at least one human resource position. Above all, large corporations need HR managers to maintain relationships between executives and entry-level workers and to prevent fallouts during labor disputes. Smaller corporations also need individuals with advanced HR degrees to manage salary and hiring processes.
What’s the overall career outlook for this field?
HR is a highly competitive field comprised of individuals from a variety of educational and occupational backgrounds. The GMAC estimates that employment will grow in the upcoming years as the workplace becomes increasingly diverse. Employers will have to respond to new regulations or to stricter versions of existing labor, health, and safety laws, which will open up new positions for HR MBAs. The salaries vary based upon the job position and size of the company; other important factors include your previous experience and level of education.
7.  International Business
What do employees in international business fields do?
International business graduates may work in domestic or international positions with private companies, governments or other organizations. As a international business major, you will be prepared to work in international finance, marketing, management, importing/exporting or sales.
Global professions are the future of business. Unlimited career opportunities await individuals who can bring international perspectives to business firms.
What degree options are available in this area?
Undergraduates can earn a Bachelor’s in International Business, but most upper-level international management positions require an MBA or Master’s Degree. MBA students can specialize in international business/management.
Find Schools with International Business Programs
What is the difference between a Master’s Degree in International Business and an MBA with a concentration in international business?
The basic difference between these two options is that the master’s degree is highly specialized and will allow you to focus almost exclusively on issues related to international business. In contrast, an MBA program will permit you to develop a general set of management skills in addition to specific multinational knowledge. There are advantages to each: a master’s program will enable you to delve into international issues in greater depth; an MBA program is will allow you to spend your first year developing a set of skills that can be transferred to other areas. While both a master’s degree and an MBA concentration will prepare you to hold management positions within the field of international business, an MBA degree may also qualify you to hold management positions in other fields, should you become interested in a different career.
What subjects will I study?
MBA programs in international business can be general or specialized programs, but most cover basic aspects of business administration like accounting, finance, management and marketing. The main focus is on topics like international governmental policies, international financial services, cross-cultural management, unique customs and attitudes, and other factors that affect multinational operations management.
You will study the major laws and organizations that affect global business and trade (the European Union, NAFTA, the Latin American Common Markets, etc). Students also study international strategy: a successful product in Thailand may flounder in Laos. Foreign language proficiency is generally required in order to make you an efficient communicator. Furthermore, study abroad programs are highly recommended, as are internships with multinational corporations.
What skills will I need?
In addition to an overall comprehension of business administration, international business students should have:
Cultural Sensitivity: Even well-known corporate giants have erred unintentionally when they fail to research cultural beliefs and traditions in new markets. You must be able to speak more than one language and should be well versed in the practices of the country where you work; a simple blunder, like an improper business card exchange, can offend potential clients.
Patience and flexibility: Do not expect to start work in Paris or Hong Kong. Most international business women and men begin their careers in domestic operations and advance to positions abroad after demonstrating prowess at home. When new markets open to your company, opportunities may arise in countries that you never considered. If you long to be an international executive, be willing to accept a position in Eastern Europe. Your achievements there might help you secure the job of your dreams in Latin America.
People skills: Whether you pitch products to upper-level executives or assist customers during sales, you need to know how to work with diverse groups of individuals who come from very different cultural backgrounds. Understanding the needs of clients is crucial to your success, as is the ability to perform as part of a multinational team.
Communication skills: To excel in business, you must be able to convey your ideas effectively and efficiently. You should be a proficient speaker and writer. Take time to research which languages are most important in your field. For finance careers, Asian and Latin American languages are useful. If you are interested in information systems management, consider Russian or the languages of developing nations.
Creativity: Turn your ideas into marketing tools and you will become a valued employee. Creativity is vital to multinational corporations, which must sell their products to a variety of customers. If your concept successfully redesigns a popular American product for sales in New Zealand, it may propel you into a management position.
The ability to work under pressure: The launch of a new ad campaign or product is extremely intense; unforeseen cultural issues and trade barriers can arise at the last minute. You will be at a competitive advantage if you can meet impending deadlines quickly.
What kinds of firms employ international business students?
The list is extensive, but frequent employers include banks, import/export corporations, multinational manufacturers, consulting firms, international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), electronics companies and transportation industries like shipping and airlines.
What careers do international business students pursue?
The international business profession is expanding rapidly as an increasing number of companies conduct multinational transactions. Your specific field may be in accounting, finance, marketing, management, purchasing or production, but you will focus on global and cultural business issues. Common job titles include Import/Export Agent, Foreign Currency Investment Advisor, Foreign Sales Representative and International Management Consultant.

What’s the overall career outlook for this field?
International business is influenced by numerous socio-cultural, political and legal factors, but overall employment is expected to rise as young organizations like the European Union expand and recruit new economic partners.
Salaries depend upon the size and location of the company, as well as your own related experience, level of education and cultural skills. Entry-level earnings can range from $24,000 to $40,000, and these numbers will&nbs


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-16 07:08

Mr. Alsop is a Wall Street Journal news editor and senior writer


Doors Are Closed
For International M.B.A.s
By RON ALSOP
Special to WallStreetJournal.com


It's a moment Peter Veruki won't soon forget. Two M.B.A. students from China were conferring with him about their dead-end job search last spring when they suddenly broke down in tears.

The two women at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management had impressive entrance-exam scores and grades, plus one had earned a doctorate degree in biosciences and the other, a master's degree in economics. How was it, they asked Mr. Veruki, that they couldn't even manage to get on the interview schedules of campus recruiters? They were devastated to be treated so coldly by recruiters. Mr. Veruki, executive director of admissions and career planning at the Houston school, tried to explain the effects of the economic downturn and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on recruiting, but he felt terrible that he couldn't offer the women any consolation.

Mr. Veruki told me about his distressing experience to help explain why the number of foreign students declined so much this year at the Jones School. About 21% of its first-year students are foreign, compared with nearly 30% of its second-year class. "I felt I had a moral obligation to reduce the number of international students," Mr. Veruki says, "with companies acting in such a nationalistic way by refusing to even look at talented foreign students for U.S. jobs."

As if tougher student visa policies and stiffer competition from U.S. applicants weren't enough, M.B.A. hopefuls from abroad also are finding it harder to win admission to American business schools because of the continued recruiting slump. Like Rice, some schools are purposely limiting the number of international students because they currently have such limited career opportunities in the U.S.

During the boom years of the 1990s, some schools clearly allowed the percentage of foreign students to spiral too high, sometimes exceeding that of U.S. students. Now, schools aren't meeting the needs of the many recruiters who will hire only domestic students. Nor are they satisfying foreign students who want to stay in the U.S. after graduation.

"It's just not fair or ethical bringing international students here thinking the streets are paved with gold," says Lisa McGurn, assistant dean for career management at the University of Rochester's Simon Graduate School of Business Administration. Rochester has slashed the percentage of foreign
students: The first-year class is 37% international, compared with 55% a few years ago.
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Schools also are well aware that they need to keep recruiters happy, now more than ever. "You make it difficult for companies to want to come back to campus if you have 40% or 50% international students and they are looking only for Americans," says Tom Kozicki, director of the M.B.A. career-resource center at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The Marshall School has become more rigorous in screening foreign applicants on their English skills and the quality of past work experience. Consequently, just 21% of Marshall's first-year students come from abroad, compared with 27% of the second-year class.

About 40% of the students at the University of Connecticut School of Business in Storrs are international, still a high number, but much less than the 56% a few years ago. Connecticut is trying to pick the most employable foreign applicants -- those with a strong business background rather than experience in government and not-for-profit organizations, as well as people with expertise in information-technology or engineering.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Business ended up with fewer international students in the first-year class -- 43%, compared with 47% in the second-year group and 50% in the graduating class of 2002 -- but that was mainly because of a bigger crop of highly qualified U.S. applicants. This year, says Mary Miller, associate dean of the M.B.A. program, "we may purposely have to reduce or be much more selective in the type of international students we admit."

The Job Market

Traditionally, international students have faced a more arduous job search than Americans. Some companies have long resisted hiring foreign graduates for full-time jobs in the U.S. because they didn't want to sponsor them for work visas or deal with potential language and cultural issues. But now more companies are shutting out foreign students because they have far fewer jobs to fill and can easily recruit talented Americans for them. Why hassle themselves with the paperwork to sponsor a foreign M.B.A. student for a work visa?

"We're seeing more emotional and patriotic feeling -- an `America first' mentality -- since Sept. 11," says Kathie Decker, director of M.B.A. career services, at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business in Iowa City. Tippie would like to see the percentage of international students drop below 40%; currently, 42% of first-year students are foreign as are 46% of second-years.

Foreign M.B.A. students can more easily find summer internships in the U.S. The challenge is the full-time job. Some companies flatly refuse to interview international students. Others will consider them only for certain positions outside the U.S. For example, as long as there is an ample supply of U.S. talent, General Electric Co. is hiring international M.B.A.s to work for the company only in their home countries.

At Kraft Foods Inc., a spokeswoman says, "we make it a general policy not to sponsor foreign people for jobs in the U.S. unless they bring very specific skills we can't find among U.S. citizens."

The situation could become even more difficult for foreign students next school year when the number of work visas is expected to be drastically reduced. Currently, the federal government can issue as many as 195,000 H-1B visas annually to company-sponsored employees, but the maximum number will soon be cut to 65,000.

So these days, schools must be blunt when informing international applicants about the heavy odds against securing a job in America. I especially applaud the University of Rochester's promotional brochures for truth in advertising. In its list of recent M.B.A. recruiters, Rochester has begun italicizing the names of the few companies that have hired international students for jobs in the U.S. And the brochure goes on to warn that, "Such hiring practices vary with economic conditions."

Rosemaria Martinelli, director of M.B.A. admissions and financial aid at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, also says she doesn't sugarcoat anything. "I'm dead honest with international applicants," she says. "I tell them that we are not the same country we were four or five years ago. If their goals are so fixed on the United States, they may need to reevaluate them."

But candor alone really isn't enough for M.B.A. programs that don't attract as many recruiters as Wharton and other top-ranked schools. Even with fair warning, many international students will look at a school's placement results and figure they'll be one of the fortunate few who get to stay in America.

At the very least, I would advise foreign students to think long and hard about the challenging job market before applying to business school. Can you afford to return to your home country and its pay scales after taking on big student loans to cover the $100,000 cost of an M.B.A. degree? If not, are you prepared for a long, stressful job search and chilly treatment from most recruiters?

It isn't easy. Just ask Marcelo Wolff. "Technology companies have been willing to talk with me, but I find that most consumer-product companies won't consider me for U.S. jobs," says Mr. Wolff, an Argentine M.B.A. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He previously worked for Procter & Gamble Co. in Argentina but can't land a marketing job in the U.S. with P&G. He's hoping to parlay his internship last summer with FedEx Corp. into a full-time job, but hasn't received an offer yet. "It's so frustrating that companies aren't more open to me," he says. "You should hire the best candidate no matter what their country of origin."

On a more positive note, such academically prestigious schools as Stanford University and Dartmouth College are seeing a rebound in recruiting by consulting firms. And that may bode well for foreign students because, in the past, consulting firms and investment banks have been less concerned about M.B.A. graduates' nationalities than their skills and drive to succeed.

International students also can count on extra job-hunting support this year from most business schools. They're stepping up training in English, public speaking, American culture and even etiquette. Stanford's business school, for example, hired an international career adviser this school year to give foreign students more personal attention.

Career-services directors also are encouraging international students to be extremely flexible this year about industries, job functions and location. Indeed, companies should take note of foreign students if they operate in cold or remote locations, where American M.B.A. graduates often are loath to go.

A marketing-related job just about anywhere in America would make Miguel Gonzalez happy. The Peruvian student at the University of Rochester also isn't as picky about the job itself. He had his heart set on a brand- or product-management job, but after being rejected by two multinational consumer-product companies, he now would be satisfied as a market researcher or marketing analyst. "I don't exactly feel like a victim," says Mr. Gonzalez, who interned last summer for Hewlett-Packard Co. "But I never thought it would be as hard to find a good job as it is right now."


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-16 07:08


对ECON Phd 申请的一些个人看法,兼谈MSU Econ的一些情况 
 


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Purpose:
首先,我不是什么牛人,比我牛的人遍地都是。我在MSU念经济学念了也有差不多两年时间了,近来心血来潮上了gter,看到申请经济学的很多,但是很多人跟我当年一样很多情况都不了解,所以想写一些东西,让大家能够对MSU的经济学有点了解。顺带,我也会讲一下我所知道的其他系和其他学校的一点情况。因为这是我对以前在Gter上面得到的很多帮助的回馈,所以我希望大家转贴时不要把gter这个词去掉或更改。
其次,我写的东西都是个人观点,所以可能会很主观,甚或偏激;而且很多信息我都是听回来的(尤其是其他学校的信息),可能有错漏;再者,我很久没写过这么长的中文了,很多词不达意的地方在所难免。所以如果大家发现我有说错了什么,请告诉我,我会虚心的改。

最后,我写这篇文章的主要目的是让大家了解一下MSU经济学系,同时希望抛砖引玉,在美国其他学校,其他系的中国学生,也能分享一下他们的学校、系里的情况,这样能够帮助到很多以后申请的师弟师妹少走很多弯路。

获取学校的信息:
我觉得获取学校信息的最好的办法是写信给你想申请的系里面的中国学生,突出重点,不要写太多无关的话,不要问对方你可以进到这个系的机会有多大,我们不是admission committee,没办法回答你这个;不要问对方的背景,我知道你的出发点是想知道更多的信息,但是这样对对方是一种冒犯。最好将你想问的问题写成1、2、3、4点这样子的方式,常见的问题有:这个学校有多少个中国人,有什么好的专业方向,GT要求是多少,一般几年毕业,我应该联系哪位秘书或教授了解进一步的情况等等。要有礼貌,但是不要太肉麻罗嗦,同时也不要期望太高,因为美国这边的phd学生都很忙,而且每天接到很多垃圾邮件,忘记回了或者看漏了都有可能,如果对方不回你,你可以隔一两个星期再写。最后,题目要醒目,不然很可能就会被当作垃圾邮件删了,像这种题目我是经常收到的:“Hi”,“From a Chinese Student”,最好加一个prospective student的字样,还可以整个gter论坛里面大家想一个统一的title或者模版。最好中英文都写,如果嫌麻烦,至少写英文;中文的话,我在学校图书馆上网很多时候只看到一堆乱码。

同时在美国在读phd的中国学生,我知道大家都很忙,但是,因为问题都是类似的,答案也是差不多的,我建议大家可以写好一个模版来回答来自中国学生的问题,这个不会耽误你太多时间,而且能够帮助到很多很多人。

最后,其实大家在申请时询问完情况以后可以在对方的准许下把这个学校的基本情况贴到论坛上。

申请材料的核心:3C
Capacity 这个地球人都知道。按照重要性排,就是你的毕业学校、GPA、GT成绩、发表论文等等。毕业学校,如果这边教授听过这个学校,你就有优势,其他他们不了解的学校基本上同等地位。很多经济学教授听说过清华、北大、复旦、人大、武大、南京大学,如果是理工科的话,情况会有所不同;附带说一声,MSU ECON好象没有从中国直接招过本科生。GPA越高越好,尤其核心课和数学课。GT成绩,过了线就好,之前看过网上一篇文章,说是审核admission的流程是:电脑把GT和GPA成绩不够的人先刷下;第二轮大概看GPA和核心课,分成三等,第三等被刷下;然后每个committee member独自审核,最后大家一起开会讨论一起招谁。发表论文:这个我不太清楚它的作用,但是如果大家有论文发表的话,最好附上一个英文的abstract和扼要说明你发表的这个杂志在中国的地位,写个题目在resume或者ps上是看不出什么的。

Commitment 这个应该是ps的重点中的重点,然而很多申请的人都忽略了这一点。坦白说,我也不知道怎么突出这一个。这一点是我一个成功申请到Stanford Educational Economics的同学跟他导师闲聊时他导师告诉他的,他当时写PS时强调了他义务到山村给贫困儿童教书的经历。我还有一个同学拿到U of M Finance, Wisconsin Madison Finance和NYU Stern Marketing的PhD Offer,就是强调了这一点,他从小到大就喜欢看金融的书,并且阐述了他的一些idea(当然,他们两个本身背景也很强。“PS不一定要很fancy,但是一定要顺,commitment一定要突出”,这是后面那个同学的原话)。其实申请PhD的人很多,而且大部分申请人只要被录取,都能够完成学业,因此,如果要把这么多qualified的学生区分的话,可能就是印象分,或者软条件,而这个是我所知道的软条件里面比较重要的,尤其对于一些名校来说。现在网络上很多PS模版坦白说,都写得不是特别好,至少这个要点没有抓到。希望大家能够对这个加以重视,同时在论坛上面多多讨论这方面,拓宽思路。还有很多PS写中国现在经济学怎么怎么样,我将来回去要做一番贡献等等(我也写过这样的PS),这个大可不必,因为教授不会对这个感兴趣,相反,他们更希望你留在美国搞学术。

Connection 怎么被强调都不过分,可惜中国学生最缺的就是这个,所以我也没打算细讲。如果是打算来美国念master再申phd的话,可以往这方面多多努力。基本原则就是,有对方认识的教授写的推荐信最好,有相关的背景最好,比如有个教授对中国股市感兴趣,你刚好知道里面的一些情况并且有兴趣,就可以跟他说说。Connection不仅是申请的一个重要因素,在将来的placement上面也是一个重要因素,后面会说道

AD and Offer and SPEAK test
现在很多学校都会发一堆AD,然后第一年的Qualify Exam/Preliminary Exam刷掉很多,然后再将奖学金给剩下的学生。所以拿到AD的人,最重要的是问学校什么情况下会给钱,像MSU的条件就是过Qualify Exam/Preliminary Exam和一个口语考试,然后给TA,这就是为什么如果你收到MSU的AD,上面会说,most of our phd students are funded from their second year on。其他学校,你们可以问秘书拿program handbook来了解。

Qualify Exam/Preliminary Exam 我等下说,值得注意的是现在很多学校不仅要求你过QualifyExam/Preliminary Exam,还要求你过一个英语口语考试,过不了的话你就没有funding。要求过英语口语考试的学校有MSU、Minnesota、Virginia(都是公立)。Wisconsin Madison一年也招很多人,同时第一年末刷了很多人,但是我不知道它有没有这个口语考试。

这个口语考试在MSU叫做SPEAK test,对于很多英语口语不好的人是一个噩梦(至少对于我来说)。在MSU的经济学系,他们会要求你60分里面拿到50分才算过了这个考试,才能拿到TA,MSU Econ里面是没有RA和fellowship的,TA是你唯一的funding来源。而且,你的Teaching Experience对你将来找Faculty的工作也会有影响。我们系一个日本人,已经第5年了,论文都快做好了,可是因为没有过Speak Test,没有教学经验,找不到好的工作,打算再留一年。不过大家也不用太灰心,只要你肯找,其他系还是会有,我在其他系(Agricultural Econ, Geography, Social Science,天啊,我容易嘛我)做RA,算是维持到生活和学费,但是像上面说了,始终对将来找工作有影响,因此要尽快想办法过了。

btw:MSU Chemistry是一个很变态的program,如果你过不了SPEAK test你直接被踢出学校,不能继续读。(Chemistry很变态,可是chemistry engineering还比较nice,要注意区分开来)
btw2: MSU每年在北京和上海都有SPEAK test,通过了对你的录取有大大的好处。

每年的任务
除了SPEAK test,在MSU的program handbook里面有对每一年学生要完成什么有具体要求,每一年完成不了任务的还是拿不到奖学金,而且可能不能继续读:

第一年 每个学期4门课,数学+微观+宏观+计量,学年末考QualifyExam/Preliminary Exam
考3门,2天内4个考试:
第一天Microeconomics1 (production, utility, demand and supply, general equilibrium, public choice),Microeconomics 2 (game theory, monopoly)
第二天Macroeconomics, Econometrics (有些学校不要求econometrics,还有些学校要求economic though经济思想和经济史,还有些学校,不是2天内考4门,而是一年半考完,微观第一年考,计量或者宏观在一年半考)
5月考一次,8月可以补考一次
3门都要拿B以上,至少一门拿A,叫做Major Pass,这样你才能继续读下去。如果3门都拿了B,叫做Minor Pass,可以拿个master走人,其他情况无学位。
5月份没有拿到Major Pass的人可以在8月份重考一次,重考时4个考试一起重考。比如说有个人拿到ABF,那他第二次还是全部要重考,如果他第二次考了BBB,那么他的最后总评还是没有过Major Pass,第二次没有过qualify的人会没有学位,被赶出系里。不过中国学生一般都会过,不用太担心。
05-06年招了37个学生,有的学生中途退出,有的学生第一年gpa太低,最后考qualify的人有31个人。5月考的第一次,第一次14个人过;8月考第二次,7个人过,所以最后总共是14+7=21个人过了,其他人转系或者出去工作了。

第二年选专业课,msu的专业最强是econometrics,econphd.net上面排到第九,这个方向上有三个distinguished professors: Wooldridge是搞empirical的,主要偏panel data,出过两本教材,国内应该很多人都听说过,他带的学生就业最好,今年他的一个学生毕业去了pittsburg; 还有Peter Schmidt,搞理论的,paper很多,非常productive;Vogelsong是搞理论Time Series的,刚从Cornell被挖过来,人很nice,但是还没有开始带学生。
其他方向比较好的是:International Trade, Labor economics, Public Economics, Industrial Organization, Game Theory, International Finance。Macroeconomics在MSU不太好,想来MSU读这个方向的人还是三思而后行。
(关于方向的强弱的进一步信息,包括其他学校的信息,可以在econphd的research concentration上面看到,或者这个链接:http://www.econphd.net/specialties.xls
第二年初报major和minor,选课,第二年末考Field,就是考你选的major的考试,没有像qualify那样刷很多人,但是也有人没过的,总共可以考4次(相同的field只能考两次)。

第三年,终于修完课了,主要就是做paper和教书。要在第三年的4月中的Red Cedar Conference上面要完成一篇proposal并作presentation。

第四/第五年 Dissertation

Placement/Job Market
MSU这几年的placement似乎越来越好了。

我个人的感觉是,如果毕业做faculty,最重要的是大环境因素,像今年的大环境就有利于empirical econometrics的人,然后是你的导师是否有名(connection),然后是个人能力,特别是paper。这几年的大环境有利于计量经济学和宏观,微观的话在学术界比较难找工作。你毕业的学校的名气要比你本系的排名要重要,MSU supply chain项目是全美第二的(曾经拍过第一好像),但是它的phd出来找的工作跟第一的MIT,跟第三、四、五(Stanford,Berkley之类的学校,我不清楚 )的比都差远了。这个就是connection的问题,你的学校不出名,知道的人不多,你跟别人怎么比还是差了一截。还有个connection的问题是,你做了faculty以后要发paper,这个你不能单干,你要找人合写,这时候你就会发现,即使你跟一个名校的人去了同一个学校教书在同一个起点,名校出来的学生还是会比你爬得快,这不是偏见,而是因为他在名校出来,connection多,容易找人合写paper,publication自然就多。当然,你自己有能力的话还是能够超越别人的,我说的只是一般情况。

如果最后去industry,connection也很重要。MSU某个系里有一个中国人phd毕业以后去了某著名银行求职,发现原来那里的一个vice president刚好也是msu 同一个系phd毕业的中国人,结果面试时轻轻松松就过关了。这不是国内说的走后门,而是有connection,你能够知道很多信息,少花很多不必要的力气。不过industry的connection很灵活,不像学术界;基本上就是你在美国读书期间最好参加多点活动,认识多点人,了解多一点信息;参加多点实习有很大的实际意义。
然后,其实如果想去industry,还不如读硕士的好,5年读phd的时间足够你在业界从一个一般的位置爬到不错的职位了(有硕士的条件下),当然,硕士是很难拿到funding的。

MSU ECON的学生概况
首先,msu里面的中国人很多,尤其是graduate school,其中又以中科大的人居多。如果把台湾人算上,中国学生总人数是MSU国际学生第一多,超越韩国人。但是在经济学系里面的中国人不多,每年从中国大陆过来的1-2个,台湾的1-2个,不过近年有上升趋势,去年招了8个中国人, 其中包括1个香港人和2个台湾人,

暂时只想到那么多,我最希望的是见到有其他学校的在校学生也写一下他们的情况,这样,我的目的就达到了。


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-16 07:09

挑战审核部--市场营销专业 

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发布时间:2007-07-14 百科常识

留学百科

 

  我是2月14号递的审核材料,主要是想沾沾这天的喜气,然后就开始了漫长的等待,结果在3月8号(也是个节日)我正在北京歌德上课,因为电话挑成静音没有接到,第2天跑去审核部询问,告知昨天是通知我今天审核,过期不候了,再等就是3月底了,因为北京的审核部要装修,我想也好,至少比马上就要审核强,结果这一等就是1个月,4月9号我实在坐不住了,就又去了一趟审核部(做什么车到审核部最快,最省钱我可门清了),,那位温和的姐姐告诉我,他把我材料忘记整理了,郁闷……当场给我约到5月5号,大家算算我究竟等了多长时间?!
  接下来,我把我所有的39门课都列了出来,让我北大博士生的男朋友开始帮我用最精简的英语概述,所以我认为我的资料应该语句上面的错误比较少,当然我也要感谢我男友,为了我的审核,他几乎把我所有科目的课本都重新学了一遍(我们不是一个专业),然后再帮我总结出来,一般那个时候我都在看电视,吃西瓜…。。

  28号那天,我和男朋友去了五台山,顺便说一句,那里的许愿真的很灵,至少在我周围的亲人身上都灵验了。1号从石家庄转车到京。又把所有的东西背了一遍,把论文准备了一下。
  这里建议一下,尤其是学市场营销的,应该把4r 4p stp理论都掌握一下,这个是最精髓的,一旦你说了这几个理念,他们就会认为你是真的学过,我就是这样。还有那个产品投资理论,波士顿距阵法:瘦狗占略,奶牛~,明星~,野猫~ ,这个我一会发的资料都有。

  几乎一个晚上都没有睡,5号早上我很早就起来了,7点15就到了审核部,但是已经有一个2审学模具男孩在那里了(也不知道他过了没有),我就又把那些资料拿出来看了看,发音再念了念,那天只有我和我的同学是学文科了,剩下的都是工业设计之类的。5号因为还是黄金周,所以审核关只有2组,而不是传说中的三组。那天面试的时间都很长,我是倒数第2个进去的,那个时候时间已经是10点45分了,当时在传说中的那个等待屋里,觉得莫名的伤感:我是放弃了一份月薪7800元的银行工作,来圆自己的出国的一个梦想。漫长的一年过去了,究竟这份放弃是否值得,也许今天的这个审核就会让我不再有实现梦想的机会,那么接下来我该何去何从?
  我被叫到笔试的屋子里,过来了一个大眼睛的德国人,因为在之前的等待中,我没有见过这个外国人,所以我以为他是记笔录的,后来证实他才是主审官。他和我用英语说了一大堆,大概的意思就是让我把自己所学得都写出来。我的笔试题准备的很不专业,我想这和黄金周他们轮休有关系,是让你叙述三门课程,都是我准备过的,学市场营销的注意了,市场调查与预测这门课是必考的,传说中的西方经济学没有考到。我当时以为笔试题是要进去还要问,所以我没有把我背的都写上怕到时候说不上来,后来我后悔死了,所以大家还是尽量不要留一手了。就在我慢悠悠的写市场调查与预测的公式时,那个大眼睛无情的把我的卷子收走了,我还没写上取值范围呢………
  进去了,除了一个大眼睛,还有一个黑头发的男子,他对我的名字十分感兴趣,重复了好几遍。后来就开始了自我介绍,这个环节我没有准备,基本上在歌德练的很多了,就简单说了几句,我们学校的名字特别长,我实在懒得说,结果他盯着我问了2遍。接下来就是我痛苦的经历,他竟然问我物流学,天知道那门课我们就学了4周,而且还是论文形势,我以为几句话就可以打发过去,没想到他似乎和我干上了,我就拼命用我有限的词汇开始组装,最后他似乎有些生气了,告诉我,我只想知道你能不能举个实例,而不要一直解释你的理论!!这个时候旁边的那个笔录告诉他时间到了,他似乎没有理会,不过他倒是把话题转到我的论文上了,刚说了没几句他又扯回物流学了,我当时真的是不想说话了,一种很无法沟通的感觉,觉得自己很无奈,他似乎看出来我的已经对这门课不熟悉了,就做了一个我至今都很费解的动作:把我的中文成绩单扔在了我的面前,让我自己选一门我准备好了的课程,我犹豫了一下,他还催我,于是我选了市场营销学,叙述概念和4p都被他打断,但是说到野猫理论和4r的时候,他有了兴趣,然后让我解释了一些市场细分,又问我的论文里面有没有用到这个,我说没有,他顿时变得非常激动,说怎么可能,然后给我讲了半天,我几乎没听懂,然后他又问有没有用到市场细分,我就说有,他似乎如释重负的感觉,然后说:那么我们换一门课程吧。这个时候,那个笔录的审核官,啪一下把笔扔到桌上,抱怨说:“你问的太多了,你不想吃饭“。然后转向我,和我说:你看我们多辛苦,你应该请我们喝咖啡。我说好,然后那个大眼睛就让我出来了。我的整个面试时间有45分钟。。。。。。。。。
  经过4天的等待,中间有一个周末,我拿到了证书,这期间我一直认为自己肯定会被否决,还好,一切都不是噩梦。
  祝愿大家都能和我一样幸运。


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-16 07:09

美国大学商学院市场营销系(Marketing)研究排名


送交者: amana 2004年11月17日09:58:10 于 [教育与学术]http://www.bbsland.com 

 
CITATION FREQUENCY OF RESEARCH PUBLISHED IN THE TOP THREE MARKETING JOURNALS: RANKING THE IMPACT OF ARTICLES, SCHOLARS, AND INSTITUTIONS

Amanda E. Helm, University of Missouri, Columbia
David Hunt, University of Missouri, Columbia
Mark B. Houston, University of Missouri, Columbia

ABSTRACT We report a study that assesses the influence of marketing articles, scholars, and institutions. Influence was assessed by analyzing the average number of times per year each article, scholar, and institution was cited in subsequently published works. Rankings of the most influential scholars and institutions are provided and compared to the results of prior ranking studies.

Journal of Marketing (JM)
Journal of Marketing Research (JMR)
Journal of Consumer Research (JCR)

Table 1. Top 50 Institutions by Average Annual Citations of Total Faculty (Fractional Credit)

Average Annual Citations Total Faculty / (rank)a Ranking by number of publicationsb Institution Total Citations Top Three Marketing Journals Other Marketing Journals Outside Discipline Based on this samplea Spake & Harmon Bakir et al

University of Wisconsin-Madison 82.9 (1) 24.9 (1) 28.6 (1) 29.4 (1) 8 5 8
University of Minnesota 73.6 (2) 22.2 (2) 28.0 (2) 23.5 (5) 3 11 20
University of Pennsylvania 71.8 (3) 18.2 (5) 27.9 (3) 25.6 (3) 1 1 1
University of Southern California 69.5 (4) 18.8 (3) 26.4 (4) 24.3 (4) 2 12 12
Dartmouth College 63.7 (5) 18.3 (4) 24.9 (5) 20.5 (9) 17 39 ?
Northwestern University 61.0 (6) 15.2 (6) 23.9 (7) 21.9 (7) 4 7 7
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 56.8 (7) 9.7 (13) 19.5 (10) 27.6 (2) 4 5 11
Arizona State University 53.8 (8) 9.6 (15) 21.9 (8) 22.3 (6) 10 12 16
Vanderbilt University 50.3 (9) 7.2 (25) 24.1 (6) 19.0 (11) 17 24 9
University of Texas, Austin 49.5 (10) 12.0 (10) 16.7 (12) 20.8 (8) 7 2 2

Duke University 46.3 (11) 12.9 (9) 20.6 (9) 12.8 (16) 10 24 18
Indiana University 45.1 (12) 13.9 (7) 15.0 (14) 16.1 (13) 10 15 21
Stanford University 41.2 (13) 10.3 (11) 10.4 (26) 20.5 (10) 28 12 13
University of Missouri, Columbia 39.9 (14) 7.1 (26) 18.5 (11) 13.6 (15) 36 34 ?
University of Florida 39.6 (15) 13.3 (8) 14.0 (15) 12.3 (21) 13 2 6
Texas Tech University 36.7 (16) 8.1 (20) 12.2 (20) 16.4 (12) 34 24 25
New York University 35.6 (17) 9.0 (17) 10.7 (25) 15.9 (14) 13 7 5
Emory University 35.0 (18) 8.4 (18) 13.4 (18) 13.2 (16) 25 ? ?
Columbia University 34.3 (19) 9.7 (14) 12.0 (22) 12.6 (17) 4 4 4
Harvard University 33.8 (20) 7.5 (23) 13.7 (16) 12.5 (19) 20 30 23

University of Illinois 32.8 (21) 7.2 (24) 18.3 (12) 7.3 (33) 28 27 24
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 32.0 (22) 6.0 (30) 13.5 (17) 12.5 (20) 38 46 ?
University of Chicago 30.6 (23) 8.3 (19) 11.7 (23) 10.6 (25) 17 7 3
University of Arizona 30.4 (24) 8.1 (21) 13.0 (19) 9.3 (28) 32 12 21
Texas A & M University 29.8 (25) 5.9 (31) 12.1 (21) 11.7 (23) 23 16 19
The Ohio State University 28.9 (26) 10.3 (12) 9.6 (29) 9.1 (30) 8 10 17
University of Washington 28.7 (27) 7.0 (26) 9.9 (28) 11.9 (22) 45 39 ?
University of California, Berkeley 28.2 (28) 9.3 (16) 10.1 (27) 8.8 (31) 34 19 10
Colorado State University 27.6 (29) 6.4 (29) 9.7 (29) 11.5 (24) 61 ? ?
Southern Methodist University 20.7 (30) 6.8 (28) 7.1 (45) 6.8 (35) 25 34 ?

University of Miami 20.8 (31) 3.5 (50) 8.9 (32) 8.1 (32) 28 34 ?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 20.4 (32) 8.0 (22) 6.1 (51) 6.3 (38) 56 30 15
UIowa State University 20.4 (33) 2.5 (63) 7.9 (37) 10 (26) 25 ? ?
niversity of Virginia 18.9 (34) 5.4 (35) 10.8 (24) 2.8 (75) 45 46 ?
University of Cincinnati 18.8 (35) 5.4 (33) 7.5 (41) 5.9 (44) 15 19 ?
GTE Laboratories, Inc 18.6 (36) 3.6 (49) 8.2 (35) 6.8 (36) 93 ? ?
Florida State University 18.5 (37) 1.3 (89) 7.8 (38) 9.3 (27) 93 ? ?
University of Notre Dame 18.4 (38) 4.0 (44) 8.3 (33) 6.1 (39) 38 39 ?
University of Nebraska 18.3 (39) 5.3 (36) 9.1 (31) 3.9 (55) 62 ? ?
Illinois State University 18.2 (40) 1.3 (89) 7.7 (40) 9.1 (29) 131 ? ?

INSEAD 17.9 (41) 5.1 (37) 6.8 (47) 6.1 (40) 38 ? ?
University of South Carolina 17.0 (42) 3.6 (47) 7.4 (43) 6.0 (43) 21 ? ?
University of Colorado, Boulder 16.9 (43) 5.4 (34) 8.2 (33) 3.3 (63) 45 30 ?
University of Iowa 16.7 (44) 4.1 (42) 6.6 (48) 6.0 (42) 21 39 ?
University of California, Los Angeles 16.6 (45) 4.9 (38) 7.2 (44) 4.5 (49) 23 16 14
Virginia Polytechnic Institute 16.2 (46) 4.1 (43) 5.5 (55) 6.7 (37) 28 39 ?
University of Connecticut 16.1 (47) 4.8 (39) 7.0 (46) 4.3 (51) 52 ? ?
University of California, Irvine 16.0 (48) 5.5 (32) 6.5 (50) 3.9 (56) 38 46 ?
University of Oregon 15.6 (49) 4.6 (40) 7.7 (38) 3.2 (65) 62 ? ?
University of Portland 15.3 (50) 4.2 (41) 7.4 (42) 3.6 (58) 80 ? ?

aRanking out of 227 institutions with faculty members publishing in JM, JMR, & JCR from 1990 through 1996.

bSpake & Harmon ranking based on a count of publications in JCR, JM, JMR, & JR from 1990-1996. Bakir, et al. top-25 ranking based on a count of publications in JM, JMR, JCR, JR, JAMS, & Marketing Science from 1991-1998. Bold indicates top 10 or approximate top 10 for tied rankings for each category.

Table 2b. Top 50 Institutions (Five or more faculty) by Average Annual Citations Per Capita (Fractional Credit)b

Average Annual Citations Per Capita / (rank)a Ranking by number of publicationsc Institution Total CitationsTop Three Marketing Journals Other Marketing Journals Outside Discipline Based on this sampleaSpake & Harmon Bakir et al.

Vanderbilt University 8.39 (1) 1.2 (5) 4.0 (1) 3.2 (1) 1 8 8S
University of Wisconsin-Madison 8.29 (2) 2.5 (1) 2.9 (2) 2.9 (2) 2 4 8
Dartmouth College 6.37 (3) 1.8 (2) 2.5 (3) 2.0 (4) 8 25 14S
University of Missouri, Columbia 5.00 (4) 0.9 (12) 2.3 (4) 1.7 (6) 23 14 12S
Duke University 4.63 (5) 1.3 (4) 2.1 (5) 1.3 (9) 3 28 15
Stanford University 4.57 (6) 1.1 (6) 1.2 (14) 2.3 (3) 16 9 11
University of Minnesota 4.32 (7) 1.3 (3) 1.7 (6) 1.4 (8) 4 31 17
Texas Tech University 4.08 (8) 0.9 (10) 1.4 (9) 1.8 (5) 27 18 22
University of Pennsylvania 3.59 (9) 0.9 (9) 1.4 (8) 1.3 (10) 5 6 1
University of Southern California 3.31 (10) 0.9 (11) 1.3 (12) 1.2 (12) 8 29 12

Emory University 3.18 (11) 0.8 (17) 1.2 (13) 1.2 (11) 26 ? ?
University of California, Berkeley 3.13 (12) 1.0 (7) 1.1 (15) 1.0 (16) 27 1 1S
University of Arizona 3.04 (13) 0.8 (14) 1.3 (11) 0.9 (18) 30 12 18
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2.99 (14) 0.5 (29) 1.0 (17) 1.5 (7) 13 13 10
University of Florida 2.83 (15) 0.9 (8) 1.0 (18) 0.9 (22) 12 6 6
University of Illinois 2.73 (16) 0.6 (24) 1.5 (7) 0.6 (33) 34 23 21
Southern Methodist University 2.59 (17) 0.9 (13) 0.9 (24) 0.9 (24) 11 36 25
Arizona State University 2.56 (18) 0.5 (35) 1.0 (16) 1.1 (13) 32 38 13
University of Chicago 2.55 (19) 0.7 (19) 1.0 (20) 0.9 (21) 16 10 3
Colorado State University 2.51 (20) 0.6 (25) 0.9 (25) 1.0(14) 86 ? ?

Indiana University 2.37 (21) 0.7 (18) 0.8 (30) 0.9 (23) 22 43 19
University of Virginia 2.36 (22) 0.7 (20) 1.3 (10) 0.3 (61) 34 48 19S
University of California, Irvine 2.28 (23) 0.8 (16) 0.9 (22) 0.6 (40) 19 18 16S
University of Miami 2.28 (24) 0.4 (42) 1.0 (19) 0.9 (20) 14 24 4S
University of Texas, Austin 2.25 (25) 0.5 (28) 0.8 (31) 0.9 (17) 21 17 2
Columbia University 2.14 (26) 0.6 (23) 0.8 (32) 0.8 (28) 6 3 4
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 2.13 (27) 0.4 (39) 0.9 (23) 0.8 (26) 54 53 ?
University of Washington 2.05 (28) 0.5 (30) 0.7 (35) 0.9 (25) 56 52 ?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2.04 (29) 0.8 (15) 0.6 (41) 0.6 (31) 18 15 3S
Rutgers University, Camden 2.04 (30) 0.6 (22) 0.8 (29) 0.6 (35) 36 ? ?

University of Texas, Dallas 1.97 (31) 0.6 (27) 0.4 (63) 1.0 (15) 19 18 13S
University of Oregon 1.95 (32) 0.6 (26) 1.0 (21) 0.4 (52) 48 ? 23S
Northwestern University 1.90 (33) 0.5 (34) 0.8 (33) 0.7 (30) 40 22 7
Iowa State University 1.86 (34) 0.2 (62) 0.7 (34) 0.9 (19) 55 ? ?
The Ohio State University 1.81 (35) 0.6 (21) 0.6 (44) 0.6 (39) 7 15 14
New York University 1.78 (36) 0.5 (36) 0.5 (50) 0.8 (27) 33 25 5
Queen's University, Ontario 1.71 (37) 0.3 (51) 0.8 (27) 0.6 (38) 62 ? ?
University of Nebraska 1.66 (38) 0.5 (32) 0.8 (28) 0.4 (58) 67 ? ?
Harvard University 1.61 (39) 0.4 (44) 0.7 (37) 0.6 (36) 46 34 20
Texas A & M University 1.57 (40) 0.3 (50) 0.6 (38) 0.6 (32) 57 33 16

Cornell University 1.49 (41) 0.3 (49) 0.6 (39) 0.5 (41) 41 5 ?
University of Cincinnati 1.45 (42) 0.4 (37) 0.6 (46) 0.5 (48) 10 27 ?
University of Colorado, Denver 1.39 (43) 0.2 (61) 0.9 (26) 0.3 (67) 90 ? 25S
University of Iowa 1.39 (44) 0.3 (45) 0.6 (48) 0.5 (42) 23 37 17S
University of California, Los Angeles 1.38 (45) 0.4 (38) 0.6 (42) 0.4 (56) 29 11 2S
Wake Forest University 1.38 (46) 0.3 (48) 0.4 (64) 0.7 (29) 172 ? ?
INSEAD 1.38 (47) 0.4 (40) 0.5 (53) 0.5 (45) 53 ? ?
Case Western Reserve University 1.37 (48) 0.5 (33) 0.5 (52) 0.4 (57) 23 44 ?
Purdue University 1.32 (49) 0.3 (56) 0.6 (40) 0.4 (50) 48 ? 9S
Creighton 1.30 (50) 0.5 (31) 0.6 (43) 0.2 (77) 133 ? ?

aRanking out of 227 institutions with faculty members publishing in JM, JMR, & JCR from 1991 through 1995 bAverage Annual Citation Rate of each institution divided by number of current full-time faculty.

cSpake & Harmon ranking based on a count of publications in JCR, JM, JMR, & JR from 1990-1996. Bakir, et al. top-25 ranking of large departments (10+ faculty) based on a count of publications in JM, JMR, JCR, JR, JAMS, & Marketing Science from 1991-1998. sBakir et al. top-25 ranking of small departments (less than 10 marketing faculty)


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-16 07:09

合作开发非专利原料药及医药化学产品的美国市场
    医药产品的美国市场开发前景:
    美国是当今世界最大医药产品市场(约占市场50%), 2006年美国所占市场值将达3300亿美元。其中占有重要地位的医药产品--非专利药的美国市场开发,投资小,回报快,利润高,特别适合国内制药业向美发展,是一条短平快的发展捷径。非专利药的国际市场消费巨大:2001年为270亿美元, 美国销售额约为111亿,2007年将有820亿美元的全球市场机会。2002年10月,美国提出鼓励非专利药的新法规,更使该类药物的发展得到了前所未有的大好时机。利用这一契机,联合国内医药企业,合作开发非专利药及各种化学中间体医药产品的美国市场,较快收效,迅速发展,即是本项目的主要特点。
    本合作项目主要内容为:
    1) 医药产品的美国市场开发立项咨询:市场上可开发的非专利药及各种医药化学中间体品种繁多,令人眼花缭乱。我方将结合合作方的具体情况及美国医药市场现状进行深入分析探讨,以选取尽可能适合于合作方的最佳开发药物项目,并为其设计制作专业水平的选项及可行性分析报告,供其参考选用。
    2) 医药产品的相关生产技术服务:我方愿根据合作方的需要,解决与项目相关的生产工艺及技术难题,协助合作方开展样品制备及规模生产。
    3) 医药产品生产的GMP(美国FDA)改造:我方将根据合作方的需要,负责指导合作方进行符合美国FDA的GMP生产设备等的改造,非专利原料药(API)的DMF文件等的编写及美国FDA备案手续的办理等事项。
    4) 医药产品的美国FDA报批及市场销售:我方愿负责向美国FDA报批及产品的美国市场销售。
    5) 各种医药化学中间体的欧美市场销售:如何将各种化学中间体及医药产品有效地打入欧美市场?我方愿利用现有优势,协助合作方在欧美市场销售其现有或新开发产品。
    我们的特点是熟悉美国市场及FDA运作,专业经验丰富,数年来与各欧美医药公司开展业务交往,熟悉其运转机制。与众多的欧美医药公司有良好的商业客户信用关系,有一定的知名度。结合国内企业的优势,联合发展,可望迅速成功。
    市场,社会效益设想
    1) 进入国际市场,提高竞争力;可望在1-2年内获取千万美元以上的回报利润;
    2) 产品主要市场在欧美,有利于创汇,促进国内经济发展。
    项目研发人:陈邦华 留美博士 现任美国RINTECH, INC., Maryland总裁
 


作者: yumeeiko    时间: 2008-5-16 07:09

求助,关于商学院的一个重大疑惑
字体: 小 中 大 | 打印 发表于: 2008-3-01 15:28    作者: F22sdu    来源: 寄托天下

今天去见了个朋友,哥伦比亚的商学院mba毕业的前辈,现在在国内自主创业,搞生物产业.我是理工科出身,马上要毕业了.本来准备去us学marketing的master,但通过和他的交流,我突然意识到一个很重大的问题,现在想征求征求各位同志们的意见.
  一开始,当他听说我要本科毕业去美国学marketing时,他的反应令我很意外,他问我是不是准备去美国再上本科.经过深入探讨,我才发现,在他的意识中,美国的商学院就是mba和phd,很少有master.从他的经历来说,他所就读的哥伦比亚,1k多的学生中,有超过900都是mba,剩下的少数人也是phd,就没有其他专业,我们平时我说的hr\finance\marketing\accounting等都是mba下的方向.总而言之,在他的概念中,美国的商学院基本就等同于mba,而mba就是商学院应用方面的最高学历,研究方面则有phd.
  此外,他还告诉我,如果要就读商学院,就应该毕业后有了工作经验直接去读mba,而且要是顶尖的几所.他说到,美国的商学院存在类似马太效应的情况,就是强者愈强,弱者愈弱,20名后的商学院毕业生,在美国的竞争力十分有限,知名企业甚至点名要求只招收7所大学商学院的毕业生,即所谓的g7 club.
  所以,我现在遇到一个很头疼的问题,我想从我现在的ee转到商科.由于我的背景很普通,我就只有2个选择:1毕业就去美国一个中等大学读一所中等的商学院的master;2先工作,争取几年后直接就读好一些的mba.我到底该怎么选择呢?







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