<p>How is the business (or should I say managerial) school at Northwestern? I havent heard much about it and I notice that it is not ranked on US news's list. Is it even worth going to unless you want to live in Chicago?</p>
<p>They dont have a undergrad b school but they do have classes related to biz.</p>
<p>The Kellogg School of Management has a top-5 MBA program but it doesn’t have a bachelor degree program. </p>
<p>However, it offers certificate programs for the undergrads in two areas -financial economics or managerial analytics; don’t let the word “certificate” fool you; those courses are graduate-level courses and much more rigorous than typical undergrad business courses.
<a href=“http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Certificate.aspx[/url]”>http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Certificate.aspx</a></p>
<p>Northwestern does not have a BBA program, which is why it is not ranked. However, the University has an elite Economics department and offers several interesting certificates/programs, including the MMSS and the Kellogg certificate programs. </p>
<p>Unless one can get into Wharton, Sloan, Ross, Haas, Stern, McIntire or Cornell AEM, I cannot think of an undergraduate business program that is better than NU Economics.</p>
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None of those programs have a better overall reputation in the business world than Northwestern besides Wharton. NU is a major target school for all top banks/boutiques on Wall Street as well as all the major MCs. This is not to to say the others won’t do the job but they’re not as heavily recruited as NU is. Stern and Cornell AEM for instance see little to no recruiting whatsoever from BCG, Bain, McKinsey and Booz. Northwestern, on the other hand, sends about 25 grads a year to these 4 elite MCs. Mcintire, Haas and Ross do well but they send about half of this number to these firms annually in comparison to NU according to their employment reports.</p>
<p>If the OP wants high finance and consulting, only the top 10 private schools sans Caltech is going to put her/him on an equal or better footing than a NU degree.</p>
<p>Goldenboy, this thread is about NU, not other programs. I never said that top Business programs such as Cornell AEM, Stern, Ross or Haas are better than NU, I said that unless one gets into those programs, NU is the way to go. Whether or not NU (or any other top private university) places students into any type of industry better than the likes of Cornell AEM, Haas, Ross or Stern is obviously open for debate, but that is not the purpose of this thread.</p>
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I agree that this thread is about NU but the only way to establish the reputation of a program is to use other schools as a basis of comparison. Besides, you are the one who stated, “Unless one can get into Wharton, Sloan, Ross, Haas, Stern, McIntire or Cornell AEM, I cannot think of an undergraduate business program that is better than NU Economics.” You essentially indirectly stated that the aforementioned 7 undergraduate business programs are all better than NU Economics at placement into investment banks and management consulting firms which is definitely not true. I don’t see how what you said can be interpreted in any other way.</p>
<p>At any rate, Stern and Cornell AEM are slightly better than NU for Investment Banking but they are a clear step down with regards to placement into elite MCs where NU clearly benefits from its Kellogg connection. Ross, Haas and McIntire are great in both areas but not quite as good in NU in either one. Wharton is the only program that is clearly superior.</p>
<p>To the OP, you’re not going to do better than NU unless you attend an Ivy League school besides Brown/Cornell, MIT, Stanford or Duke.</p>
<p>goldenboy8784: The title of this thread is “Business at Northwestern.” As has been pointed out, NU does NOT have an UG business school. Alexandre correctly pointed out there are only certain BUSINESS SCHOOL programs he would recommend over an economics degree from NU. That doesn’t mean he would recommend them if the OP were just interested in NU for economics. His answer was germane to the question.</p>
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I think its pretty clear that the OP is ambivalent about whether he intends to study economics or business and is looking for a course of study at a a school that will prepare him for a successful career in business. In this case, none of those business schools should be recommended necessarily over NU unless their home institutions themselves are a better fit for the OP.</p>
<p>None of those programs will give the OP the sort of critical thinking and problem solving skills that an NU Economics degree with a possible Kellogg certificate combination will. These are the attributes that are attractive to employers and the OP will enjoy the level of recruitment senior year that will reward all of his hard work. He is better off at NU in the long run unless Wharton extends him an offer.</p>
<p>“How is the business (or should I say managerial) school at Northwestern? I havent heard much about it and I notice that it is not ranked on US news’s list.”</p>
<p>How is this statement ambivalent? The OP was clearly asking about the Business school. He never mentioned a desire to study Economics.</p>
<p>Regardless goldenboy, I never said that the OP should choose one of the 7 business programs I listed above over NU, I merely stated that the OP should not choose a BBA program over NU unless it is one of the seven I mentioned above. In other words, NU is better than all but 7 BBA programs and as good as some of the top 7.</p>
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<p>Based on what evidence?</p>
<p>No evidence, I was just stating an opinion. I should have made that clear. I am sure some would argue that other top BBA programs such as Mendoza, McDonough, Kenan Glagler, Tepper, McCombs, Goizuetta etc…are also very strong, and they would certainly have valid reason to believe so. Others, like goldenboy, would argue that only Wharton is as good (if not better) than NU and that the remaining BBA programs would be a step down. There is no right or wrong, just opinion.</p>
<p>This thread = opinions and blowing things out of proportion.</p>
<p>^^^That’s what CC is mostly askjeeves; opinions.</p>