<p>I am a senior recently admitted to the following colleges and their respective business programs:</p>
<p>UCONN (School of Bus.)
Syracuse (Whitman School of Management)
Penn State (Smeal College of Bus.)
Indiana (Kelley School of Bus.)
Illinois Urbana (School of Bus.)
Boston U (School of Management)</p>
<p>My question is that I plan to return to the west coast (southern california) after I graduate to gain a business related job, but I know that a lot of these schools may only experience recruiting opportunities on the EAST COAST or MIDWEST ETC. I wanted to know which school will give me a better window into jobs on the WEST COAST for Business Management.</p>
<p>I'm a huge fan for leaving your home state for college. I left CA too. But business is all about your network and none of the schools on your list will give you the network the better UC's, USC, CMC and a few others will. Can't you go to grad school OOS?</p>
<p>well to be honest, i only have USC left as an option on the west coast....if i do stay id have to go to lower level school like UCI or UCSB. I worked hard and i feel i would be cheating myself out. any thoughts??</p>
<p>If you are going to attend OOS for business I would recommend one of the larger publics you have listed like Penn State or UIUC. They should have a larger concentration of alum in CA I would expect which would help for contacts in business. As far as UCSB and UCI I wouldn't really go there for business. There reputations suck outside of CA and there not even that great inside for business. I don't think UCSB even has a business program. So overall I would recommend trying to find figures of alum concentrations at the schools you listed.</p>
<p>In all honesty, IMO none of the schools o your list have anything on SB or Irvine. I'm not that familiar with rankings but hard to believe any of them are much higher ranked.</p>
<p>And keep in mind that most of the elite jobs in business go to people who did not study business as undergrads.</p>
<p>There's lots of ways to reward yourself for your hard work. With the cost difference between a UC and the others, you could spend summers overseas doing unpaid internships that would position you very well when you graduate. That's the kind of reward I'd love!</p>
<p>Plus, if you want to return to CA to work, none of the schools on your list has much of a reputation there. And this comes from a native Californian who has worked and hired for both coasts and studied business undergrad at Wharton.</p>
<p>wow, see thats my problem. I would really prefer to spend as little time as possible in the east. I love california too much. Here are the schools i still have yet to hear from. I would like peoples thoughts on those too:</p>
<p>USC
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell
Boston U
NYU
Emory</p>
<p>Can any of these have better luck in CA if i get in?????</p>
<p>Hmom, one of the things you fail to take into consideration is the people hiring for business appreciate D1 sports (read: Football and Basketball). When you sit in an interview and they see your university it often opens a discussion on the schools team or recognition of a school's mascot. I sincerely doubt Penn, Cornell, Stern, UCSB, and UCI would register much on the sports scale and probably fewer people even know the mascots of these schools. No doubt some of these schools provide a great education, but some of the other schools on Jayden's list probably open more conversations.</p>
<p>CD, first you have to get the interview. For business jobs, where you went to school will dictate if you get an interview. And I have to say, in 30 years of hiring, I've personally never had a discussion about sports:)</p>
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<p>I agree.</p>
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<p>The person who will be doing the interview knows the difference between a school known for their sports and a school known for their business programs. If he doesn't , then the firm is not a place where you would want to work. I challenge anyone who interviews for a top tier business, not know about business programs at Penn and Stern.</p>
<p>I agree sports is a huge conversational topic in interviews, but a lot also concentrate on professional teams, so if your school is not well known for sports, it matters little. I can assure you that after a couple of minutes of opening conversations, the topic is quickly changed to the business at hand.
Woe to you to be interviewed by a woman like hmom who couldn't care less if your school was a NCAA champion.</p>
<p>UCONN (School of Bus.)
Syracuse (Whitman School of Management)
Penn State (Smeal College of Bus.)
Indiana (Kelley School of Bus.)
Illinois Urbana (School of Bus.)
Boston U (School of Management)</p>
<p>Each of the above get a strong list of companies interviewing its graduates. Indiana, Illinois, Penn State, and Boston each rank in the top 50 in undergrad programs. If you are talking about investing in a private for undergrad, you would likely get a much better return on investment for attending a quality public. You could argue that for the MBA program the criteria is different. If a student plans to get an MBA, an undergrad in business duplicates about one-third of classes. So even though I expect my kids will consider some sort of business as a career, I advise them to do something else undergrad and complement their business skills with an MBA in the future. </p>
<p>Hmom may be correct in saying Penn and NYU have prestige in some circles and a network to flow into, but I would contend this relates to consulting and finance. Regarding publics versus privates...check out the recent survey about the rankings of universities that have the most CEOs. A public and a private tied for the lead the second time in a row.</p>
<p>By the way, I live in CA too. I work in business and I can honestly say in my 30 years here I have never met a Stern undergrad, have worked with some Wharton MBAs (Penn), and some Cornell grads. But I have worked with a lot of people from the quality publics and I cannot see where they have any shortcomings, in fact I think they may even have an advantage. They come into their careers prepared to work, the do not have a sense of entitlement, and in your career this is more important than the school you went to. </p>
<p>I would be careful about assigning credibility to any statement on this site because it is delivered blind. Do your own research and make a reasoned decision. While I may not have many posts on this board, it is because I chose to only comment on things where I feel I have knowledge and perspective.</p>
<p>Every school has their own network. Some tend to be regional, some national and others international. The best way to understand the recruiting promise of any school is to study the jobs and salaries of recent grads, that tells the whole story.</p>
<p>And make sure to delve deep--don't just look at company name, look at the job/salary within the company. IBM, Google, JP Morgan and the rest recruit at many schools, but they recruit for different jobs at different schools.</p>
<p>And CD one is mostly correct on what you get from undergrad vs. MBA. But I'll go a step further, I don't think I learned any skill during my MBA work that I didn't have coming out of Wharton undergrad. The entire value of my MBA was in the network formed during those 2 years. A bargain at 50 times the price.</p>
<p>well if your talking about your future job into consideration then the prestige and ranking of the under grad business school is the most important factor
so your two best choices are illinois or indiana</p>