To work in consulting. Which is more attractive: Biostats or Health Management

[jjright212]

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Which concentration is more attractive? I want work in one of the big consulting firms after I graduate. My undergrad is in Neuroscience at an top school, but I feel that I lack the core financial skills, or math skills that those consulting firms want.

BTW, I am hoping to go to Columbia to do my MPH.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

 

[thedelicatessen]

What kind of consulting do you want to do? One of my biostats profs was a statistician for a pharmaceutical company prior to his return to academia, and he said that biostats is pretty lucrative in part because so few people have grad degrees in the subject. However, that is very different from financial consulting for health organizations, which would be more in line with health management.

 

[jjright212]

Thats an interesting perspective. It makes me wonder why the median biostats graduate salary is significantly lower than those in most other mph concentrations. Any ideas why this is?

I was thinking about working for McKinsey or Deloitte who work with the more traditional health care settings.

 

[thedelicatessen]

Well, I think you would have to go further with your education like PHD or MD to really be up in the payscale as a biostatistician, but I always thought health educators had the lowest salary of all the public health fields.