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How is the London Business School MBA degree valued in the United States?
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Let me answer this question based on what I have heard from my friends and acquaintances.

British Universities don't go far in creating an impression in Business and Management Science subjects in the USA in particular! that is a fact.

There is this general impression in the USA and abroad that the best business schools are American Business Schools.

Why? Historical Perspective….

#MBA is quintessentially an American Academic Invention and Scholarship.

There were no MBA degrees in Europe during the 1960s and 1970s. I believe the only countries which offered an MBA Degree in the post-war period, outside the USA, were Pakistan, Philippines(Asian Institute of Management)

and probably there were some MBA type business education programs in India at the IIM - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (require proper citation for this..).

Across European universities, they normally offered Business Diploma/s(Like in Germany) or BSc /MS/ MSc level degree programs in Management Studies or Economics.

Most of them additionally offered Professional Management Programs and Accounting Qualifications like the CA.

But there was no official MBA Program in the EU, including the UK, in the post-war period up to the end of the 1970s.
I think the @LBS MBA program started sometime back in the 1980s. But again I need to check further online to verify my intuition.

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Anyway, @LBS is a fantastic business school in its own right, and comparable to other institutions in the City, like LSE, Imperial, Kings, Queen Mary, RCA, SOAS, Royal Holloway, and the other specialized UOL Lead Colleges/ Schools.

However, a #British degree does not create the same kind of impact in the USA like it does in other parts of the world, especially the British Common Wealth, Africa, SE -Asia or how it sells like a hot cake in the GCC / Middle East.

There is a cultural context and a historical reason to explain all this.

The Americans, who were a British Colony, do their utmost to dispel the English Occupation Legacy by creating a strong impression that the USA is a different cultural, social, economic, legal and political entity.

An e.g. of this is that the USA never joined the British Commonwealth.

Hence, for the Americans, their Ivy League and other universities come first, and the other foreign unis are forced to stand in the last corner. They as a nation are obsessed with themselves, which is an international political drawback,

hence nothing doing with your degree being British or from anywhere else. Most of the Americans have hardly travelled outside their state and are largely intro ward people.

It is this ignorance of the American people, that you might not be able to go far with an LBS Degree in the USA.

Yes, among Academic circles, you might be able to push yourself up!

Like if you are going to do a #PhD/ DBA, an LBS qualification can do wonders for you! it will make your CV stand up and shine like nothing else.

But, when you are dealing with the normal enterprises and business blokes in places such as NYC or across the other megacities in the United States, you just won't be able to explain the utility of this brand “LBS” to them.

I can bet on this one!

My friend, who did his MSc in Economics from @LSEEcon, went back to the USA, and he was not able to find a job. The Poor guy later did his PhD from a second-tier uni in the USA, and he is now teaching Economics in the Far East.

Another distant cousin of mine went to the USA after graduating from Imperial College, but again, he was not able to get decent work in the Corporate Sector.

Later, he too ended up in a PhD program and is now working as an instructor in the Middle East.

So, if students from Imperial and LSE cannot make it to the top, I doubt if LBS will help you in any way.

Sorry, If I sound a bit too harsh or pessimistic.

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