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To learn more about how BusinessWeek.com applies this policy, you can contact our Marketing Department. | | This week in MBA Express | | Dear Reader: About two out of every five college students leave college without a degree, but dropping out is not something we normally associate with MBA students. And for good reason: they rarely do it. As our intern Victoria Black reports, when they do, it's usually for the best kind of reason: a job. But the fact that any MBAs at all decide to drop out speaks volumes about the perceived value of the degree. Yes, MBAs get paid more at graduation, but those few who land immediate job offers halfway through also get paid more, suggesting that for some employers the value of the MBA is largely in admissions: they need B-schools to cull the wheat from the chaff and that's all. From a student's perspective all this suggests that the real value of the MBA resides, at least for some, in the connections they make in B-school. As one student told us, after a year at Kellogg: "I think I got 90 percent of the value and I don't think I would have gained much more had I stayed." That the vast majority of MBA students do decide to stick it out to the end (and most job offers made halfway through are contingent on the student completing the degree) suggests that both students and employers do see at least some value in the second year, and in the degree itself. And that shows no sign of changing any time soon. Louis Lavelle, Business Schools Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek | | Louis Lavelle |  | | Advertisement  | Business School Resources | Advertisement  | |
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