Hi JB,
Here are answers to your questions:
1) Are the international SDM candidates eligible to apply for OPT after the course?
A. Good question I did not thought of it myself as I'm in the part-time option of the program. My guess would be that there will be a OPT for full-time students, I'll try sending couple of emails and see if I can get confirmation on that. In the meantime you can email
cbates@MIT.EDU.
2) How is the job scene for internationals?
A. 40% of the class is sponsored and so most of them if not all go back to their respective companies. 60% are non sponsored students.
Employment reports are here:
SDM Program at MIT - EMPLOYMENT REPORT
I'm attaching this year's employment report with this thread.
sdm_employment_report07.pdf
Titles held by MIT-SDM graduates include:
Senior product manager
Systems architect
Director of hardware engineering
Vice president of engineering and technology
More recently, SDM fellows have chosen to enter nonprofit, financial and consulting arenas. They hold such titles as:
Senior consultant
Manager of corporate strategic planning
Vice president of wealth and investment
Director of business strategy
3) How this program is viewed by recruiters(IT biggies like MS, Google, Adobe etc.) vis-a-vis traditional MS / MBA program offered by MIT? How this program places itself with respect the other two programs?
A. The whole program itself is steered by industry partners, they have yearly meetings to access the direction of the program and they change the curriculum accordingly, like in recent years there has been shift in curriculum towards IT . This was the first year Microsoft came in to recruit. The program has picked up nicely in last 3-4 years, before that it was not that much in lime-light as most of the class was company sponsored (Boeing, NASA, US Defense and others). In recent years number of self-sponsored candidates have surpassed the company sponsored ones.
4) I could not find the class-profile on the MIT's website. From where I can look into that. May be I need to dig more on the website.
A. The class profile is in the attached employment report. The impression I got from them was that they do not weigh very heavily on GRE/GMAT but a upper 600 will help. I had 710. They give close attention to the analytical score and AWA part in GMAT.
With all this said, mainly the program is great for technical leaders with some folks also getting out to other areas like finance, business strategy and planning but those opportunities are mostly through Alumni contacts. MIT-SDM is not too heavy on placements mostly because only in recent years it has got so many self-sponsored students that being said they give you direction, they get the right people in touch with you, they work with you on your resume, presentation skills, weaknesses, strengths. If you see the attached employment report 42% got their jobs from MIT recruitment office and Alumni's rest got it on their own or they went back to their sponsored companies.
End of the day least a Master's from MIT will get you is an interview call and then it all depends how you perform in it. I've met some Alumnus and they say they have grown as much personally as academically with this program. As with any other good program a great deal of learning is from peers and Profs.
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Originally Posted by jinglebell  Thanks for the gr8 review of the program.
Though I still have few Qs, for which your inputs would be appreciated:
1) Are the international SDM candidates eligible to apply for OPT after the course?
2) How is the job scene for internationals?
3) How this program is viewed by recruiters(IT biggies like MS, Google, Adobe etc.) vis-a-vis traditional MS / MBA program offered by MIT? How this program places itself with respect the other two programs?
4) I could not find the class-profile on the MIT's website. From where I can look into that. May be I need to dig more on the website.
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