Now post the rest of the answers .... I'm sure that we can all learn valuable insights into how you value a company for aquisition versus how one would value it in a fiduciary capacity acceptable to regulators for a large investor or pool.
the answers are quite obvious. take a good look at the backgrounds of the founders of yahoo, sunw and goog. they were all computer sci grad students at stanford.
SUNW has done well going down the past 5 years...http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SUNW&t=my&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=
There are people on the Forbes 400 list that only have high school diplomas,so it goes to show that college isn't always everything when it comes to making money.
Enough for me, The thread was initially about a comparision of the MBA and the MFE from two schools. It turned into a discussion on the value of the MBA and has degenerated from there. No one supported the MFE though!
CAL is a great school. And the new Haas Business facility is state of the art, with gorgeous views and architecture . . . However, I have no idea on how valuable the MFE program is. Do your own due-diligence. By the way, applications for the 2006-2007 year are now closed. Applications for the 2007-2008 year will open today, 12/15. http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/MFE/
If you are comparing the value of a Stanford (or Harvard) MBA to a UCB MFE I've got to believe you're not Stanford material. And if you are looking at a Stanford MBA strictly from the point of view of financial ROI,... well, what can I say? Tell me, what was your GMAT score? Who wrote your letters of recommendation. And discount the people who say it's easy to get into Stanford GSB -- they either never tried or were rejected.