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HKS MPA/ID or WWS MPA
| Fluffy Racy Toaster Halford | 04/03/09 |
| Mentally impaired piazza | 04/03/09 |
| vivacious garrison jew | 04/11/09 |
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Date: April 3rd, 2009 6:03 PM Author: Fluffy Racy Toaster Halford Subject: Harvard MPA/ID or Princeton MPA The MPA/ID program is my top choice, but they are not offering funding. The MPA at WWS is free, but since I want to conitnue in World Bank or UN I worry that Princeton is not as recognized in international development circles (esp. IFIs) or as quantitatively rigourous. Is Harvard worth the loans? Are Yale IDE, LSE, or SAIS also worth considering? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=967298&forum_id=3#11326302) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2009 8:38 PM Author: Mentally impaired piazza Don't even think about other schools beside H and P.
You have to be realistic that loan can haunt you later especially when you'll get into a profession where it'll pay only around 60k~80k a year.
WWS is an awesome school. I would totally take WWS. No brainer. I think WWS and KSG have same level of rep even for international development.
The only thing that I put KSG over WWS is its smaller class size for international development program. |
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Date: April 11th, 2009 9:18 PM Author: vivacious garrison jew I will give you a counter example... sorry to make your choice more difficult.
I do have a MPAID degree from HKS so my answer is biased.
Here is my take on this. Even with a MPAID degree or say, a MPA degree from WWS, if you want to be in anywhere at worldbank, you really need a PhD degree. You HAVE TO TALK THE TALK with Phd economists who is doing diff. equations in their sleep for them to take you seriously. MPAID offers some (painful.. very painful even I have an engineering background) of that but still not enough.
The MPAID will get you somewhere at worldbank like many of my ex-classmates but to get up there, you have to get 1) a PhD or 2) go outside of Worldbank and do a in-and-out and in-and-out game.
If you pick 1, WWS is not bad since you will be in school for a long time and you don't want to have loans. If you pick 2, a Harvard degree will get you the network outside of US and land you a job that pays enough to service your loan and eventually get you back to WB,IMF,IFC.
So it really depends, do you want a Phd. If not, HKS. If you do, I will go for WWS. |