Does GPA for graudate school matter at all as long as you pass.
depends from company to company. But It is good to have decent GPA for boasting/highlighting in resume.
IMO if you’re not pulling 3.5+ in Grad School you really have no business being there.
^^^ Unless of course you have a soft offer from Fidelity following a summer internship.
Most grad schools you cannot get lower than a 3.0 anyway. You either get an A or a B at most schools.
Doesn’t matter if you’re talking about MBA, although anything above 3.8 is worth noting on your resume.
it is an MBA, and yes it does require you to complete at least a 3.0, but has anyone seen employers asking for MBA gpa? I thought it wouldn’t be important at all
Is “graduate school” MBA, masters or other? It matters more for some than others.
Why would employers care about GPA?
cfagoal2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > it is an MBA, and yes it does require you to > complete at least a 3.0, but has anyone seen > employers asking for MBA gpa? I thought it > wouldn’t be important at all Yes, I have been asked for my GPA at business school in at least two companies. Not only my GPA, but also what courses I took, which professors, and why I chose that course path. It turned out that in both hiring processes my interviewer attended the same MBA program, so he knew that is very different to get an A from Dr. Famous than that from Dr. X.
I don’t really care about overall GPA, but do ask for transcripts because I want to know if you took relevant classes and how you did in them. If you ace a bunch of marketing electives but bombed or didn’t even take the tough finance electives, your MBA isn’t much use to me. The exception would be that you have the finance qualifications through CFA, prior work, etc. and took non-finance classes instead of finance classes to broaden your skill set. No excuse for bombing a finance class or being 3.0 in finance classes though.
No it’s not that important, if you do your assignments and show up you shouldn’t have a problem getting a 3.5…I wouldn’t brag about it
Don’t even mention it. Just graduating (and indicating) with Distinction or High Distinction says it all. Otherwise, keep silent.
from http://www.aomonline.org/Publications/Articles/BSchools.asp: Do Higher Grades–More Mastery of the Subject Matter–Have Any Effect? One reason that having an MBA degree may show no effect is that mere possession of the credential may not be strongly related to the individual’s mastery of business knowledge. Recently, an investment bank was horrified to find that an MBA graduate it hired from a leading business school, an individual who had apparently taken a number of courses in finance, could not calculate the net present value of a future stream of payments. Crainer and Dearlove (1999), in their critical overview of business education, described the “Wharton Walk”–a drinking ritual in which the students at the University of Pennsylvania business school visit 10 bars in one night. They concluded, “This is what happens in business schools. Most students simply get drunk. MBA students bond and network” (Crainer & Dearlove, 1999: xix). Robinson’s (1994) description of his life at the Stanford Business School is illustrative of many students’ perspective. “Learning is not an explicit goal. Nowhere does Robinson address the issue of what he wants to learn” (Armstrong, 1995: 102, emphasis in original). Obviously this is not a generalization that applies to all students in all schools all of the time, but to the extent this depiction of what goes on in business schools has some validity, it can help explain why the credential, in and of itself, may not have a lot of economic value. If the credential itself could potentially mean nothing in terms of mastery of the subject matter, then perhaps we need to examine the effects of some measures of knowledge acquired. Although grades are certainly not a perfect measure of subject matter mastery, they have the advantage of being available in some studies and, moreover, are likely to be at least somewhat related to how much one has learned in courses. The empirical evidence on the effects of business school grade point average (GPA) is mixed. Neither Pfeffer (1977) nor Dreher, Dougherty, and Whiteley (1985) found any effect of grade point average on either starting or current salaries. O’Reilly (2001), at our request, reanalyzed data from his study with Chatman on the effects of personality and intelligence on MBA graduates’ subsequent career outcomes (O’Reilly & Chatman, 1994). He reported that U.C. Berkeley MBA graduates’ GPA was unrelated to (a) salary increases over 3 to 4 years after graduation, (b) average salary of the job accepted, © the number of jobs held since graduation, (d) the number of promotions since graduation, (e) the number of job offers received upon graduation, (f) either job or career satisfaction, and (g) the person’s fit with his or her current job. Burt (personal communication, Nov. 26, 2001) reported that data from a survey of women who graduated from the University of Chicago Business School showed that GPA had no effect on either income or the probability of reaching senior rank. Williams and Harrell (1964) found that GPA in required courses was unrelated to earnings for Stanford MBA graduates, but that grades from second-year electives were correlated with compensation (see also Harrell & Harrell, 1974). Harrell interpreted this difference in the effects of core versus elective grades as reflecting the consequences of strong work motivation and working hard, rather than as an advantage from what was learned. The logic is that grades in elective courses reveal more about a person’s willingness to expend discretionary effort. Weinstein and Srinivasan (1974), however, did find a statistically significant effect of GPA on compensation for their subsample of line managers. Srinivasan and Hanson (1984) also reported an effect of MBA’s GPA on compensation, regardless of whether the MBA was computed on core or elective classes. Their analysis also demonstrated that this effect was not driven by the relationship between GPA and prior work experience. This evidence, at best mixed, does not provide a lot of support for the contention that mastery of the subject matter of business schools, at least as assessed by grades, is related to subsequent performance in business. If the subject matter of business schools were directly tied to business success, there should be more consistent and stronger connections between business success and mastery of the relevant content.
DarienHacker, where have you been?
When I worked at a university you typically saw three grades in grad school a or b or f (not many F’s but the occasional one)
flynnch Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When I worked at a university you typically saw > three grades in grad school a or b or f (not many > F’s but the occasional one) sounds like Harvard as well
of course GPA matters!
What do you mean? Undergraduate grades are extremely important. A 4.0 from Harvard will land you any entry level job you want. That job will get you into any MBA program that you want, and that will get you into any post-MBA job that you want. Etc. etc.