Business at MIT

<p>So, how good is the business department at MIT? Granted, I don't like saying "good", but I read somewhere that they were 2nd in the nation. Is this legitimate? And on another spectrum- would business/economics majors at MIT be looked down upon by all the science/math geniuses? x]</p>

<p>Well, you're certainly correct that US News & World Report ranks MIT's Sloan School of Business [url=<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/business/topprogs_brief.php%5Dsecond%5B/url"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/business/topprogs_brief.php]second[/url&lt;/a&gt;] in a list of undergraduate business programs. Whether you think that's "legitimate" depends on your view of the USNWR rankings.</p>

<p>There are sort of fundamentally two types of people who major in management at MIT -- the people who came in determined to be management majors, and the people who tried a technical major but didn't like it/were bad at it and had to declare management because it's easier than the technical majors.</p>

<p>People in the first group tend not to be looked down upon. People in the second group are often a little less lucky in the court of public opinion.</p>