<p>So what do you all think the best colleges for undergraduate business are?
To pursue a career in finance.. would it be better to go into an undergraduate business program or just study economics at a top ivy league or something? </p>
<p>Where is everyone applying?
I applied to: UPenn Wharton, Cornell AEM, UMich, NYU Stern, Dartmouth, Duke, USC, UCBerkeley, BU, Penn State</p>
<p>I am dealing with a similar situation. </p>
<p>I applied to UCB (Haas) and UCLA. I am also planning to apply to Stanford, USC, and NYU. I am trying to decide if I should apply somewhere else.</p>
<p>stanford has no business program just so you know.</p>
<p>but undecided, the top 5 business schools in order go as followed:</p>
<p>1.University of Pennsylvania (obviously)
2.UC Berkeley
3.NYU
4.University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
5.USC</p>
<p>I know that Stanford does not have a business program, and I know what the top business schools are. The question is whether or not to study business ungrad or economic ungrad.</p>
<p>farbdogg: I believe MIT-Sloan should be ranked up in the top 5</p>
<p>cc student: there are lengthy discussions about business vs econ ugrad in the archives (old CC board)</p>
<p>yeah ill agree, but i wouldnt go there for business, its an engineering school but its business program is very underrated.</p>
<p>cc student- if you go to a school with a business program thats where all the recruiting will be, if it doesnt have one its best to major in economics.</p>
<p>the best situation is you double major or dual major or major and minor in one and the other</p>
<p>Wharton, Sloan, Tepper, Marshall, McIntire, Haas, Ross, Stern, McCombs, Kenan-Flagler no particular order</p>
<p>And it all depends on what you want to do</p>
<p>Wharton blows every school, graduate, undergraduate, exec or otherwise out of the water in finance</p>
<p>Tepper and Sloan are considered tops in any technology, productions management, quant analysis, etc</p>
<p>Ross is known for production management, and strong ties to the automotive world</p>
<p>Of course, the region you want to work in also can affect the decision</p>
<p>"Wharton blows every school, graduate, undergraduate, exec or otherwise out of the water in finance"</p>
<p>That's a pretty idiotic statement. Do you know where the head of the Fed went?</p>
<p>Wharton still owns nyu and any other school on the planet you fool.</p>
<p>lol the head of the Fed. Thats all you stern kids talk about. Any instance we even mention a person famous from Wharton you see the prospective NYU stern students and the students themselves posting "Guess where the head of the Fed went?". Stop with Greenspan and find other alumni. </p>
<p>In the meanwhile look at this (rather short) list of Wharton leaders:
<a href="http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/alumni/leadership/%5B/url%5D">http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/alumni/leadership/</a></p>
<p>Go to vault.com and search where almost ALL ibanks and hedge funds recruit in. Its Wharton and Harvard and after those two its Chicago. So stop with the "head of the fed" and find some other excuse for the school lol.</p>
<p>Yeah, my top three choices were Wharton, McCombs, and Marshall. McCombs is an excellent b-school with great internship/career opportunities, as well as the Business Honors Program which allows for the really heavy-hitters to accelerate their business studies and take more in-depth/advanced classes. Plus it's UT and in Austin, which, combined with the fact that it's a great school in itself, makes for a great four years.</p>
<p>Actually, I turned down Wharton, just like a lot of my fellow classmates did. On the undegraduate level, there isn't much of a difference. And I'm doing quite well after graduating.</p>
<p>Are you some pimply 17 yr old high school kid saying this or do you actually have any experience with either school?</p>
<p>farbdogg71, are those your personal rankings? because USNews disagrees. It's Wharton, Sloan, Haas, Michigan, Stern in that order overall, and Wharton, Stern, Mich Haas Sloan for finance. </p>
<p>But that's just USNews.</p>
<p>USNEWS rankings are pretty useless. It just sends out letters to the schools and asks them to rank their program. Not too scientific.</p>
<p>stern fool,</p>
<p>I aint pimply, I aint 17 and I am not dissing Stern. What I am saying is instead of rubbing Greenspan all over your @$$es constantly find some other areas where stern is good in.</p>
<p>lol stern better than wharton...lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol. </p>
<p>Ask any recruiter to compare wharton to stern and every recruiter will say wharton in a heart beat. </p>
<p>I'll just say this...I've already gone to Citigroup headquarters in NY for two functions (at one it was MBA students from Wharton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Northwestern, and Wharton UNDERGRADS we were the only UG there), i've been taken out for dinner by 3 fortune 500 recruiters, 2 ibanks, and I've gone for drinks with goldman sachs recruiters who were former wharton students. I've gone to dinner at Warren Buffet's house, and have met at least 15 CEOs. AND I'M ONLY A FRESHMAN!</p>
<p>NO OTHER UNDERGRAD PROGRAM offers such a well rounded business education. Wharton's network is amazing (just as good as HYP), recruiting is ridiculous (ranked #1 by corporate recruiters in Business Week), and the professors are amazing (example: whatever finance professor jeremy seigel says, goes in the business world. If he says jump wall street jumps - aka that is why he's on MSNBC every day.). </p>
<p>Also when I worked at UBS (an ibank that stern people probably won't get recruited by) I saw a memo of newly hired people and out of the 120 or so, 23 where from wharton, the next highest school was harvard with like 8. Stern had no more than 3. whammy.</p>
<p>I'm sorry you turned down wharton, it's one hell of an experience. I really do feel sorry for you.</p>
<p>haha bern i knew you would clear that up sooner or later.</p>
<p>Clear what up? When I graduated I had 7 offers from the top ibanks, and I'm glad to know I probably took offers from Wharton Kids who actually think they are superior to me. And you're a stupid little freshman-let's see where you end up after you graduate. In addiiton, I wasn't talking strictly about recruiting-I was talking academics, and I want you to show me where the difference is in academics at the ug level. Byt the way, tons of Stern finance profs are quoted daily by WSJ, CNN,etc and one prof recently won the Nobel. All in all, I am glad I turned down Wharton because it is in a crappy area, Penn as a whole is a disgrace to and the laughingstock of the Ivy League, and it's academics is no better than Stern</p>
<p>whatever I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. Although, anyone in the business world knows that wharton is far better in every aspect when compared to any other undergraduate business program. peace.</p>