I was accepted to McCombs, but I did not get the Presidential Scholarship and UT is known to be bad at giving financial aid. Although, I have always dreamed of the student life and experience at UT Austin, and I feel like with McCombs at such a high caliber, the return on investment after graduating will make paying the full price worth it.
However, I also received a full ride scholarship to attend UH Bauer, and have an acceptance to the Honors College at UH. I’m not sure if I want to pursue the Honors College because I hear that it is pointlessly harder. However, IT’s a FULL RIDE that covers my tuition if I were to settle to stay in my hometown of Houston. I just hear that UH is a commuter school, and therefore the campus is dead at 3am and on the weekends, which is something I do not seek out in my ideal college experience. Also, I don’t think Bauer does as well with career placement and post graduate jobs, so I don’t know if that would be as good of a return on investment? Although I don’t know much about it to be honest, so I may be underrating Bauer. I know UH is rising up through the ranks, but I’m still not sure if it’s right for me. A full ride sure does sound sweet, though…
Maybe if I rushed and joined a sorority at UH, that would offer me the student life experience? I just feel like I may miss out on the opportunity to have both an amazing education and job placement as well as a solid and extensive student community that I would find at UT Austin.
Can your parents afford UT?
Then, for business, it’s a good idea. Business is one of these areas where your school’s name matters for salary and what opportunities you have, at least to the extent of McCombs vs. Bauer. So if your parents can afford UT, it’ll make a difference for you to take advantage of that opportunity.
However it is NOT worth debt for them.
If they can’t afford it from their income and savings (meaning they’d have to take loans for you to attend) take the UH offer with honors college. At least for your first year you’ll have a better learning environment. You don’t have to continue in honors past the first year if you don’t like it.
If you can afford UT and you want to stay in Texas, the UT name and alumni network will be more than worth it. But if plan to leave TX or money is an issue, I would go to UH.
Given the choice I would lean toward UofH honors program. You would big fish in a small pond rather than just being a small fish in a large pond. You would have plenty of intern opportunities in the city of Houston. UofH has added many dorms over the years and having a normal on campus student life is not difficult at all. I think UT is an amazing school but the perks of the honor program and free tuition would be to hard for me to pass up. The good thing is you can’t lose with either decision.
If money is not an issue go to UT. McCombs Business school is well known and many well known US employers recruit from UT.
It is a difficult decision, and good problem to have. My son got in a good private university with $34,000 scholarship money a year, a full ride opportunity at South Carolina , I still lean towards UT Austin.
In the business major the school you attend matters ALOT. The McComb school of business is the only one in Texas that is nationally known, I would go as far as to say even if your parents cannot afford it, go with some student loan and attend UT.
So what if…I did my undergraduate at the Bauer Honors college with the scholarship, and then went on to Mccombs for an MBA? Is an MBA in business worth it, especially if I can officially say I graduated from UT? and would Honors with a mediocre GPA or a high GPA without honors be better at getting me into McCombs for grad?
You have to work for 2-3 years before you can apply to an MBA.
But yes that’s a possibility.
To get into McCombs MBA you’d need a high GPA, excellent GMAT scores, excellent professional experience.
Regardless if where you’re coming from you’re not getting in without those (where you atr need undergraduate doesn’t really matter in deciding MBA admissions.)