<p>BC requires every student to take all liberal arts requirements (Including CSOM students). To me, from a hiring prospective, the majority of public school degrees (Outside of Texas, and California) are devalued by the caliber of accepted students from within the state. </p>
<p>^^I hope you realize that you just responded to a thread that is 2.5 years old…</p>
<p>but I would disagree with you about Michigan. It’s still really strong at the undergrad level.</p>
<p>Business Week ranks Carroll School of Management at BC at #4. Ross fell to #12. I don’t totally agree with their methodology, but I would say the two are pretty equivalent for undergraduate business. But they are very different schools, so attend the one you like better or can more afford if the money is different.</p>
<p>Different business schools have different strengths. For example: <a href=“A List of Top Schools Feeding the Asset Management Industry - WSJ”>A List of Top Schools Feeding the Asset Management Industry - WSJ;
<p>Forbes America’s Top Colleges 2014 - Boston College is 36th and Michigan is 45th.
<a href=“Forbes America’s Top Colleges List 2022”>Forbes America’s Top Colleges List 2022;
<p>I’m aware that this is an old thread, but these two schools somehow attract a lot of people who apply to both (my kid did last year, and I checked them out thoroughly).</p>
<p>There is almost nothing about these two schools that is similar except they (1) both have big time teams in football, basketball, and hockey, (2) have cold winters and (3) have been virtually joined at the hip in the USNews rankings for a decade or so (so, presumably, in general, neither one is head and shoulders above the other academically…there might be differences, but they are not the kind of differences such that you can get somewhere from one that you can’t get to from the other–except in engineering or pharmacy or other fields that one has and the other doesn’t). Neither one is going to have people gasping in admiration, and neither one is going to get you dismissed from the adult table at Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>But since every other aspect is almost a polar opposite (compact vs. spread out; religious foundation vs. extreme left-leaning foundation; on outskirts of amazing large city vs. in nice small city), those would seem to be the factors that would/should sway you one way or the other.</p>