<p>Tier 1:
1. Wharton (Penn) Reason: None needed. It's undisputed.
2. Stern (New York) Reason: Great location and best school next to Wharton. Stern is way better than the rest of NYU and has over a 1400+ V/M average and around a mid 20%s acceptance rate. Stern is valued by all East Coast companies and has a long history of being a top business school.
3. Tepper (Carnegie Mellon) Reason: Rising school and amazing job networking. 19% Acceptance Rate. Some kids in 2006have chosen it over Stern but Stern's still better as of now.
4. Ross (Michigan) Reason: Like a worse Stern but still better than McIntire.
5. Haas (Berkeley) Reason: Bad placement on East Coast. Mostly tech placement on West. Not very business worthy.
6. McIntire (Virginia) Reason: Like a worse Ross but very good business school.</p>
<p>I think theres a difference between best business undergrads and best undergrads for business - i mean....most of the Ivies, Stanford, Duke, Williams and other LACs, or Chicago don't have specific business schools but are probably and are comparably recruited at as Wharton (though Wharton still is the best, its still got competition from other non-b-undergrad schools)</p>
<p>"Stern is way better than the rest of NYU .."</p>
<p>interesting, this was not my understanding.</p>
<p>I thought that the Tisch School of the Arts had at least an equal, if not superior, claim to being the "best" school at NYU , for the goals of their respective student bodies. Many students interested in a finance career might arguably be better served, in the long run, with a liberal arts degree from a number of very top colleges than with a Stern Bachelor's degree. On the other hand, for students with interests in areas such as theater, musical theater, dance, film there is no more prestigious choice, or preferred background than Tisch. From what I understand. Except Julliard for some but not all of these areas.</p>
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sakky did u read the info course guide from MIT. It's not really business it's more tech and they do stuf like comp finance so i left 'em out.
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<p>Trust me, I know Sloan extremely well. I don't think I have to read anything about Sloan to know what Sloan is all about, and I doubt that there is much that anybody can tell me about Sloan that I don't know. Trust me. </p>
<p>If you're going to leave out Sloan because it's too "techy", then you might as well also leave out CMU Tepper, because that's also pretty techy. After all, Tepper also does computational finance. In fact, unlike Sloan, Tepperactually offers a specific master's degree in computational finance. </p>
<p>Furthermore, I would point out that every major business-school ranking does not leave out Sloan just because it may be techy. Sloan is classified by most major rankings as a true business school. Sloan graduates are also highly successful in getting the most desired business jobs. For example, I think it's safe to say that Sloan grads are more successful in getting into management consulting and investment banking than, say, Illinois grads are.</p>
<p>Sakky I respect your opinion but you are no longer correct about Tepper. It has gained much soft-core skills in the past few years and Comp Finance is not offered in Tepper. It is a joint program mostly for SCS/MCS kids. Only 2 econ/business kids out of 14 overall are in the major. Over half are SCS. Offering a "Masters" is much different from Ugrad. The only thing that should matter is the postgrad reports which Tepper has proven it sends many kids to the top Wall St. companies. In fact, 2005 mode companies were Merill Lynch, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, and IBM Consulting.. '06 mode companies include Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, etc.</p>
<p>I do agree that Sloan should not be left out though.</p>
<p>Sternman, how is Ross worse than Stern? I have yet to see a ranking that has Stern ranked above Ross. Out of a class of 300, over 150 joined top 10 IBanks and top 5 MCs and another 100 joined companies like Google, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Pfizer, Ford, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, GE etc...Ross has top 3 undergraduate programs in Accounting, Finance, Management and Marketing. I am not saying that Ross is better than Stern, but to say that Ross is worse than Stern is hard to justify.</p>
<p>And how do you leave out Sloan? Who cares if they are technical? Their placement and starting salaries rivals those of any other top B school. </p>
<p>What's Northwestern doing in there? They don't have an undergraduate Business program. </p>
<p>And if you are going to include UIUC, why did you leave out Cornell, Texas-McCombs, UNC-Kenan Flagler, Indiana-Kelley, USC-Marshall, WUSTL-Olin and Emory-Goizuetta?</p>
<p>alex you are biased but Ross is not that great. it has a huge student body and only the top 25% or so get nice jobs. It does not have Stern's good location or history of financial success. Unlike Stern where almost all of the kids get great NYC jobs. There is a reason Stern is #2 for Finance.</p>
<p>i hope you know Olin is overrated and has bad placement and so does Emory. I guess the rest of the schools are okay for tier 2.</p>
<p>Is this undergrad or mba? Kellog (NU) is not for undergrads. If this is post undergrad bschool (MBA), then shouldnt Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Chicago, and other kick ass schools be somewhere in the top 15? If this is Ugrad then shouldnt Emory, and WUSTL be somewhre on it?</p>
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alex you are biased but Ross is not that great. it has a huge student body and only the top 25% or so get nice jobs.
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<p>Did you even read what Alexandre wrote?</p>
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Sternman, how is Ross worse than Stern? I have yet to see a ranking that has Stern ranked above Ross. Out of a class of 300, over 150 joined top 10 IBanks and top 5 MCs and another 100 joined companies like Google, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Pfizer, Ford, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, GE etc.
<p>I go to Stern but I do not agree with this list at all...Stern is every bit as good as Ross, Haas, Sloan but not better; they are all in the same league. I'd say Wharton is clearly the best b-school...and if you want to be more general, include the top ivies - HYP - and Stanford. I wouldn't include Columbia, Cornell, or rest of the ivies and other top schools - Northwestern, Chicago, Duke, etc. - above the top business schools...they are all in the same league.</p>