Best Business schools for B students

College Search & Selection
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most schools in the usnews ranking's 40+ or so should probably be in your range

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ya i dont know where that first set came from, it was either from a long time ago or else they were college rankings, not program rankings. you would probably get into iowa for sure, they have a very good program. for private, baylor and hofstra are both good.

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So you were talking about "undergraduate business" ranking? That makes no sense at all. Undergraduate business ranking generally has little correlation with admission selectivity.</p>

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Cornell, Emory, UIUC, Wisconsin, WUSTL, Penn State, Notre Dame are all ranked below Indiana. Does it mean it's harder to be admitted to Indiana/Kelley?</p>

<p>Indiana(#11), Purdue(#21), Arizona(#21) and ASU(#25) are no more selective than those ranked in the 40+.</p>

<p>Let's do it your way. Do you really think you can get into MOST of the following schools with a 3.0?
41 George Washington University
41 Syracuse University (Whitman)
41 University of Arkansas (Walton)
41 University of Colorado-Boulder
41 Univ. of South Carolina-Columbia (Moore)
41 Virginia Tech (Pamplin)
48 Auburn University
48 Bentley College
48 College of William and Mary
48 Florida State University
48 Georgia State University (Robinson)
48 Miami University-Oxford (Farmer)
48 Santa Clara University (Leavey)
48 Tulane University (Freeman)
48 University of Alabama (Culverhouse)
48 Univ. of Missouri-Columbia</p>

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<p>it's exceedingly easy to transfer into indiana's business school once you are accepted to Indiana. I think all you need to do is complete the pre-reqs and have a 3.0+</p>

<p>and like DunninLA said, top "business" undergrad programs are not necessarily the best preparation for a career in business. Besides a select few (wharton comes to mind, a few others do OK) an econ degree at a top 15 school will likely take you much further than any school on that list</p>

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<p>"econ degree at a top 15 school will likely take you much further than any school on that list"</p>

<p>What rubbish. Assuming you can get into a top 15 school (huge assumption for many people) the jobs are typically limited to Wall Street and consulting. Now if you want to work 80-100 hours/week in a dog eat dog environment, go for it. But you are by no means assured of getting hired (maybe 10-20% on average get hired--the rash of recent hiring is OVER) and then you are a liberal arts grad competing for the low paying jobs. </p>

<p>The grad of most Top 20 undergrad business schools can compete for the WS jobs if that's what they really want but they can look at a vast variety of other companies and areas besides just finance. Accting, marketing, real estate, etc all have many openings.</p>

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<p>I don't understand why everyone is posting rankings when, honestly, top schools aren't going to be in the picture anyway...</p>