Brand power really equates to alumni presence in the firms you want to attract, so use LinkedIn to see where alumni from those degrees are.&nbsp;<br><br>I would exclude WMG, since the program design is so odd: you are not in a cohort, there are no classes most weeks, you don't have the sort of facilities ot a business school etc.&nbsp;<br><br>The Lancaster programme is very well designed with good project elements and strong industry support from IBM and SAP.&nbsp;<br><br>The Henley programme feels more oriented towards front end consultants and the BTC path feels very good for your goals. The Reading location is perfect. I would pick that.&nbsp;

[quote]Brand power really equates to alumni presence in the firms you want to attract, so use LinkedIn to see where alumni from those degrees are.&nbsp;<br><br>I would exclude WMG, since the program design is so odd: you are not in a cohort, there are no classes most weeks, you don't have the sort of facilities ot a business school etc.&nbsp;<br><br>The Lancaster programme is very well designed with good project elements and strong industry support from IBM and SAP.&nbsp;<br><br>The Henley programme feels more oriented towards front end consultants and the BTC path feels very good for your goals. The Reading location is perfect. I would pick that.&nbsp; [/quote]<br><br>Dear Duncan,<br>First of all thank you for replying. I have already done the linkedin search following your advice in other threads and it seems that lancaster alumni are one step forward in terms of career advancement overall. A question I &nbsp;have regarding Henley is that much of its popularity comes from its MBA and its executive education degrees. Would you say that's accurate based on your experience?<br>Thank you again for time.<br>Ilias

Yes, I think that's fair. Henley always struggled with its full-time MBA even before joining Reading. The EMBA at the Henley campus is well ahead of the offer on the Reading campus. But, it's a good university and ranked fairly.&nbsp;

That Lancaster course seems a very good mix of business and technology but I wouldn't get too carried away by the IBM and SAP partnerships.<br>During the massive boom in Enterprise Resource Planning systems like SAP around the millennium, there were at least two masters courses that included modules to become a certified SAP solutions consultant. One was Sheffield University if I remember rightly. I ended up working for a large business/technology consultancy where such degrees were not considered to be a good enough grounding in IT. That consultancy paid for me to do the standalone SAP training.<br><br>However, the Lancaster module doesn't seem to have the same structure and looks like a more general introduction to business processes and analysis. If so, it should be good as when I did my SAP training at SAP's own academy, business process analysis was arguably the strongest and most useful part of the course.&nbsp;<br><br>The IBM module on architecture also looks good although IBM are nowhere near the tech titan they used to be when I worked for them in the late 80s.<br><br>Such a course should set you up well for a career in consulting.