<p>I'm deciding between the two of them...any input?
I know BusinessWeek ranks VSB ahead of Carroll, but I'm curious to see what you guys have to say</p>
<p>I’m deciding between these two schools too!</p>
<p>I love Villanova, but the main factor that is keeping me back from enrolling is the lack of diversity. Can anyone comment on the asian population at VSB?</p>
<p>There is a very similar discussion going on in the Villanova vs. Michigan thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/villanova-university/684141-villanova-vs-university-michigan-ann-arbor.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/villanova-university/684141-villanova-vs-university-michigan-ann-arbor.html</a></p>
<p>I’ve done a cut and paste of part of my response from there:</p>
<p>There are a handful of University Business Programs that are truly national in reputation and drawing power, Michigan along with places like Wharton, Virginia, MIT and Notre Dame fit that description.</p>
<p>After that you move into what I think of as Super-Regionals, places like Boston College, Emory, Southern Cal, Villanova etc. These are schools that have justifiably great reputations in their area. Their programs are just as rigorous and their students just as ambitious, but they don’t carry the same name impact as the “biggies”. But in their particular region they may carry just as much impact as the national name.</p>
<p>Where the difference comes in is when/if you start your career looking for a job outside your university’s geographic area. Villanova grads will do well in Philadelphia and Washington DC and all the way up to Boston. </p>
<p>BC grads will do better in Boston but will have name recognition all the way down to DC.</p>
<p>Just remember, after you get that first job it’s going to be all about how well you perform. By job 3 or 4 the importance of where you went to school will be of minimal impact compared to how well you’ve performed in the actual workplace.</p>
<p>So to some extent you have to think (only a little bit) about where you might want to work and live when you first get out of school. Don’t get hung up on ratings. I defy anyone to explain to me what tangible, concrete differences exist between getting an eduction from the 11th ranked program vs the 17th, (last year one was #13 and the other #14, what does it mean to be “2” better or “3” worse? is the Finance grad with a 3.8 from the 17th ranked program better than the Finance grad with a 3.2 from the 11th?). Either school will provide you a great education. </p>
<p>Good Luck with the decision.</p>
<p>BC has a very established name, and villanova, to some extent, is still on the uprise</p>