<p>Is Boston University good for business? Why or why not? Is it particularly strong in finance and economics? Thanks for the help, and if there is any other advice on this subject feel free to post it. </p>
<p>Are the Boston University appliciations on the internet?</p>
<p>Search on this CC BU site for SMG. (School of Mangement) as well as posts by RYanbis, a recent grad with a Finance/Eco focus. There is a wealth of info on SMG which btw is in a new absolutely beautiful state of the art building in the middle of BU's campus.</p>
<p>Like all schools these days you can find applications and/or apply online via the web site. BU also uses the Common Ap.</p>
<p>I'm hopefully going to BU for business (Marketing). They did pretty well overall (#30 business school).</p>
<p>Also, there is a 5 yr Masters in Economics Program at BU too.
See the threads I bumped for you on SMG.</p>
<p>Also, there is a 5 yr Masters in Economics Program at BU too. See the threads I bumped for you on SMG.</p>
<p>Here is the link for the SMG Honors Program:</p>
<p>dogs thank you very much for all the threads you bumped. I have a question about SMG, does that program have any specific majors. I am interesting in majoring in finance and if I have a chance economics as well (double major). But finance is my first choice, and the above posts deal with Economics. Does anyone have any informaiton on finance in BU?</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://management.bu.edu/index.html%5DHere's%5B/url">http://management.bu.edu/index.html]Here's[/url</a>] SMG's website. It's really more productive to poke around to see for yourself. They have a curriculum link which explains more on one page than a short answer here could.</p>
<p>"dogs thank you very much for all the threads you bumped. I have a question about SMG, does that program have any specific majors. I am interesting in majoring in finance and if I have a chance economics as well (double major). But finance is my first choice, and the above posts deal with Economics. Does anyone have any informaiton on finance in BU?"</p>
<p>As dogs mentioned, I recommend searching through a lot of the past posts (at the very least, my posts in this, the Business and the College search and Selection forums). That may answer a lot of your questions and give you a good idea of what the program is like.</p>
<p>To answer your questions specifically, SMG only has one major: Business. Everyone in SMG is getting the same degree and majoring in the same thing. Within your major, however, you can concentrate in different areas (I believe they are Accounting, Finance, Operations and Technology Management, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior and Law). You'll find that a substantial amount of undergrad business schools work like that. Your concentration is made up of your four SMG electives that you take second semester junior year and senior year. Many people at BU choose to double concentrate. I was a finance concentrator, so I can answer some questions about the main finance courses.</p>
<p>The benefit of structuring the program this way is that you will leave with an extremely strong foundation in business and will have a strong understanding of each functional area and how they interact with each other. Some programs teach you one functional area and just that, which will put you at a disadvantage in the real world. Rarely will you work independently of other departments and the vast majority of corporate jobs require you to work in cross-functional teams. You'll also leave with a better understanding of how businesses operate as whole, with several functional areas working as part of a larger system.</p>
<p>As for economics, econ is taught in the College of Arts and Sciences. If you wanted to do both econ and business, that would involve getting a dual degree and not a double major. A double major means simply majoring in two things for one degree (for instance, getting a Bachelor of Arts and majoring in Psychology and Political Science). Getting a dual degree involves getting two degrees (in your case, it would be a B.A. and a B.S.B.A.). You can get a dual degree through a program called BUCOP that you apply to during your sophomore year, but it requires a bit of planning, as you have to fulfilly the requirements for two different schools.</p>
<p>To explain it a little better, getting a degree usually involves completing the requirements set by your particular college (for instance, the College of Arts and Sciences has requirements that ALL majors must meet, such as taking a foreign language) and the requirements set by your major (such as taking 8 courses directly related to your major and a few other courses indirectly related). A dual major would have to complete the requirements for their college plus the requirements for each major. A dual degree requires you to complete the requirements for two colleges plus the requirements for two majors.</p>
<p>"Search on this CC BU site for SMG. (School of Mangement) as well as posts by RYanbis, a recent grad with a Finance/Eco focus."</p>
<p>Small correction: I was an Accounting and Finance concentrator in SMG. I did BUCOP and get a B.A. as well, but my major was Psychology and not Economics.</p>
<p>thank you all for the help, and if you have any other tips those would be really appreciated as well.</p>
<p>Any ideas on Marketing at BU Ryan?</p>
<p>Pardon me for cutting and pasting...</p>
<p>I honestly can't say much about the marketing concentration...the professor I had for Marketing (MK323) was really good and most of the marketing concnetrators I've talked to seem to like their classes, but I don't know much beyond that. I do know that marketing is a hard area to get into, though, and that you have to start in sales a lot of time before you move up. Most marketing internships also do not pay (as opposed to, say, accounting, where you get paid about the same as a first year full time new hire).</p>
<p>I do remember there being a lot of different electives for marketing, some seemed rather interesting (I think there was one course they were experimenting with that involved the students consulting with an actual business).</p>
<p>Thanks Ryan. I know it's a hard area, but I know pretty much what I need to do in order to get to where I want.</p>
<p>Also, the economics program is very well-respected, and ranks in the top 20 in a number of specific specialities.</p>