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swit D:
Unto winch level, Se we dey share am ?

cool down my guy. what i ment was that we missed her presence on this thread

Sagamite:
Wetin dey? Dem no go accept 520 from a black man? They must be racist.

lets just say they are elitist . The posher u are with a little bit of brain cells the easier it is to get into the Top schools.

dayokanu:
What does 100k mean to the likes of Okonjo-Iweala, Obama, Clinton and Al Gore now, If they had thought about the high cost of an Ivy league school in their college days, They wont be household names nowadays.

I think Okonji-Iweala was a Federal goverment scholar so she didn't pay for her MIT education she was sponsored by the Nigerian government  i think.

Clinton and Al Gore are from very wealthy backgrounds. So going to an elite school is a must for them. They probably went to elite secondary schools as well.

dayokanu:
At the University of Chicago any finance student would be taught by Scholes(Black-SCHOLES) modelling and Harry Markowitz.

Yes but you wouldn't learn that much in an MBA. MBA is very very over-rated . It is very very easy  even easier than an undergraduate degree.
If it was a Msc Finance them u might probably learn something from the master himself. if you talk about Phd then i accept because u will be robbing minds with these legends constantly

devilmaycy:
This doesn't even make sense- you usually dont pay for doctoral programs, you get a tuition waiver and stipend. Especially for astrophysics, they might put the tuition down online, but thats pretty standard, NO one pays for a phd in astrophysics.

davidif:
It is probably cheaper for several reasons, the department might not have its own building therefore the costs are low or it might be that MIT has more research proffessors. It might also be because they don't have a department so they borrow course from the physics department or school of astronomy. I don't know the specific reason.

do u mean for US citizens because last time i check MIT website before they accept you for a Phd program (as a foreign student) u have to provide proof that u can pay the tuition.

The reason i used astrophysics as an example is that to complete  a phd u need to spend a lot of time in a space observatory. What normally happens is that when u are doing ground breaking research u need a very powerful observatory. Since Uni Chicago has the best in the world, students from other schools buy time to use it. and ofcourse premium is given to uni chicago students. so my main point was that why is it still cheaper than MIT when even if you are in MIT and you are working on a ground breaking research project you will need to spend some time in Chicago.

davidif:
Can you imagine going to Columbia University and being taught by the likes of Nobel Prize winners like Joseph Stiglitz (former clinton economic advisor) or Paul Krugman, it doesn't get no better than that.

Again Sagamite has answered this as a mere sales pitch  . A 1-2 yrs MBA is a very short time to learn from these guys. besides these guys have written lots of books about their theories which you can buy and learn from easily. Most of their ground breaking work are highly technical and much more useful in a more advance degree like a Phd.

The bad thing about a Phd though is that you are mostly on your own working on new theories based on old ones by this guys. These guys as your superviors for example will only serve as your guide because by the time u are done with your Phd you will have more knowledge than them in the core aspect u are looking at. 

lets take Black-Scholes model or the Markowitz theory for example. And while it was ground breaking in the 60's and 70's there has been a lot of revisions to these model because of its so many limiting assumptions . and if you probably enrol for a Phd finance today and do reaserch on these theories you will probably come up with something different. for instance (sorry to bore u with this . . .) Black-Scholes is based on partial differencial equation but there is a lot of research going on in the use of other methods like Jump diffusion (Merton model) or Non probabilistic models

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