Carnegie Mellon University Reviews

"Great opportunity to gain confidence and learn skills to advance my career."

"Overall the Tepper school of Business at Carnegie Mellon offers a high quality program. The school is data oriented which helps students better tackle the problems of today. Being able to find value in data, and use to better understand the world around us, gives one a strategic advantage."

"This program is very academic, scientific, and mathematical in nature. If you are looking for a fluffy MBA program, this is not the place for you. Come ready to work hard."

"Tepper is uniquely positioned to prepare managers for the information age. Data is king nowadays, and Tepper helps MBA graduates build tangible, useful skills that will help them excel in the corporate world. Furthermore, Tepper is not a fluffy program. When you enroll here, you are seeking a challenge that will help set the stage for the rest of your professional career. Pittsburgh can be isolating, so it would help if there was better outreach to larger markets. We have satellite campuses in New York and Silicon Valley, but the bulk of the students in Pittsburgh rarely get to leverage anything gained by having those locations. I wanted to work in Chicago, but our penetration here is extremely low. To illustrate the point, only about 7 of us actually ended up in Chicago and 5 of those were by happenstance because their consulting firms happened to assign them here. This is despite the dozens and dozens of my classmates who wanted to work here, but couldn't get the interviews/connections. I only ended up here because I decided to return to my previous employer, who just happened to be headquartered here in Chicago. Similar stories exist for other highly desirable locations like Los Angeles and San Francisco. I found the "full service" approach that Tepper offers particularly enticing. The mini semester system offers incredible curriculum customization and lack of cohorts allows you to truly get to know and work with as many different classmates as possible. The quantitative rigor of the program, along with the technical background of a large portion of the student body prepares us both analytically and socially for the business world.Read Less"

"The biggest strengths we have is our focus on data and quant and our alumni support. The biggest opportunity to improve is that our numbers are less in the major IB and Consulting firms -- leading to a tough recruiting season."