<p>these are my two favorites, JMU is higher for business, but is it a better academic school?</p>
<p>just curious…would you be in-state for FSU? if so, I don’t think the tuition difference to go to JMU would be worth it. My son wanted to go to Virginia Tech and we went to one of the open house weekends. From what they were saying Virginia, like Florida, was cutting their state school budgets. We were told by the associate dean of business at VA Tech that they considered FSU a peer institution. Financially, it made no sense for my son to go out of state.</p>
<p>Frankly, in my opionion, unless you are going to Wharton, UVA, or one of the others in the top 5-10, I don’t think it makes that much of a difference. How successful you ultimately will be will depend on how you well you take advantage of the educational opportunities afforded you.</p>
<p>I fully agree with wtztu’s second paragraph above.</p>
<p>Have you visited both schools? My son was accepted to schools that have been consistently rated higher than FSU in the rankings, but rankings were not the end-all be-all for us. Having visited all schools that he was accepted at, FSU was clearly the place he wanted to attend and has all of the resources available for him to be as successful in the undergraduate business school as he can. </p>
<p>In our opinion, the college years are important for so many reasons that rankings don’t consider. Find the school that best matches you.</p>
<p>I’m OOS for both, I just want to know which school is more reputable because I like both the same.</p>
<p>I think that depends…in the Virginia, Washington, DC area…JMU may be more well known. In Florida FSU is. I would wager many people in Florida don’t really know what JMU is…I do because I used to live in Virginia. Now if the choice was UVA and FSU, then UVA’s business school definitely has more of a reputation.</p>
<p>I think you have to look at many things…where do you think you’d ultimately like to work, do you intend to go to graduate school, what area of business are you interested in? </p>
<p>Plus, they are very different environments. JMU is close to Washington, DC. FSU is much more isolated. Tallahassee is not a very large city and the airport is small and getting there is not that easy. You need to visit each and see where you feel most comfortable. JMU has a much smaller student population than FSU…that is something to really consider. Not everyone does well in a school the size of FSU. You might like a smaller campus. I think the differences in the schools reputations pales in comparison to the other differences between the schools.</p>
<p>As an FSU student from Virginia, I’d say that JMU is comparable or slightly above USF/UCF (academically, school spirit and sports wise, etc), while FSU is pretty comparable to VT. However, JMU is a smaller school than FSU, USF, and UCF, so that’s something to consider as well.</p>
<p>That was my impression as well by looking at the JMU College of Business. It is not in the same league as Florida State.</p>
<p>but JMU is ranked considerably higher than FSU COB</p>
<p>frankly, I’d worry less about what are probably minor differences in ranking and concentrate more on where I’d be most happy spending four years of my life.</p>
<p>The JMU CoB faculty does not have the same levels of credentials as does the faculty at FSU’s CoB; indeed nowhere near.</p>
<p>That indicates to me the rankings are of questionable worth.</p>
<p>I am a transfer student I was accepted to VT, JMU, and FSU. I was also considering Business at all three schools. I live in Virginia and I will be attending FSU this fall. I visited all three schools. FSU was the last school I visited. Once I got to FSU, it was a done deal the school stood head and shoulders above JMU and VT. I say go visit the schools and hopefully you will feel the same way I did and become a Seminole.</p>