<p>Can you tell me what you know, wether good or bad, about the business programs (basically the management major) in the following LAC's?</p>
<ul>
<li>Bucknell University</li>
<li>Gettysburg College</li>
<li>Rhodes College</li>
<li>University of Richmond</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks in advance :)</p>
<p>anyone? :)</p>
<p>bump .</p>
<p>js2....some opinions, but I don't know these programs first hand, although I have a graduate management degree, and thus appreciate management & business academia. I am also a LACophile, that is I have a bias for a LAC undergraduate education, so I am intrigued by these LACs with degree programs that integrate a LAC curriculum with a profession.</p>
<p>I have checked out each of your 4 college management/business web sites. First, the only program I was aware of by reputation before looking was Richmond. Richmond has a B-school, which the others do not.....this is a very big plus in my book, especially since the Richmond business program (no matter what the business major...management, accounting, finance, etc....) a student must first go through some arts & sciences before landing in the business program. I was also aware of Richmond's leadership program, which is pretty darn unique in my book, and one of the firsts of its kind I believe...you should check it out.</p>
<p>So on those differences alone, I'd favor Richmond first in this screening.</p>
<p>Another way to look at this is faculty resources...I think its good to have plentiful faculty with varying management interests so you can be flexible with your eventual academic interest. Richmond has by far the most business faculty (with many business departments beside management), and has about the same management faculty amount as Bucknell. Before checking this out, I hadn't relaized how deep Bucknell's management program really was. Gettysburg & Rhodes have about the same amount of faculty resources...roughly half that of Richmond or Bucknell...., but Rhodes has a combined "econ & business" program (econ being a standard LAC major, and a popular one for students interested in a management profession), which is significantly less deep than Gettysburg's combined management & econ programs (or the others for that matter as well.)</p>
<p>So, here's how I'd rank the quality of management programs based upon this cursory screening:</p>
<ol>
<li>Richmond</li>
<li>Bucknell (definitely worth checking out)</li>
<li>Gettysburg</li>
<li>Rhodes</li>
</ol>
<p>Note that this ranking happens to also be somewhat proportional to undergraduate size (bigger size implies more resources & variety of resources, especially for unconventional LAC areas, like management)....Bucknell & Richmond have about 3,000 each, Gettysburg mid 2000's and I think Rhodes is 1500-1600.</p>
<p>On yet another angle....if my son or daughter wanted to get into management, I would not hesitate to push these LAC programs....plusses are that if they changed their minds, there are plenty of opportunities with a LAC to pursue other major interests, & I happen to like the LAC education as well. I would however note to them that an MBA or the like might be more needed eventually (as compared to, say, getting a Wharton undergrad degree) if they ended up (or wanted to end up) in a brand-sensitive industry, like Wall Street.</p>
<p>hope this helps....of course, there are many other school qualities that you'll want to take into consideration other than their management programs....</p>
<p>Skidmore also has a business program. I am not sure about its reputation, but Saratoga is a wonderful town to be in.</p>
<p>Look at Mason at William & Mary. Great program at great LAC.</p>
<p>Holy Cross has accounting major in addition to economics.</p>
<p>Thanks papa chicken for your response, i'll take a deeper look at what each has to offer.</p>