Business School

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>I think a representative from Carnegie Mellon told me that there is an undergrad business program. Is this true? If a major in business is a possibility for undergrad students, could anyone please tell me anything about the school? How selective is the business school? Where do students work after graduating? Most importantly, how good is the program? </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Ha, the tepper school of business is top ten in the nation. It's pretty darn good</p>

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<p>the only thing id say about the business program is that you should figure out what direction you want to go. tepper is very manufacturing/science-y business, whereas some schools are more geared toward international business, some finance, so on and so forth. for me, tepper wouldnt have worked because i didnt want my business education to be completely math and science oriented. it depends on the person, because there is no doubt that tepper is an amazing school, just not for everyone.</p>

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<p>I didn't know that. Thank you, actonian. Do you currently attend a business school? If so, where, and would you please comment on your current academic career? thanks.</p>

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<p>How is Tepper in regard to trading or in the finance area of study overall?</p>

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<p>unfortunately i wouldnt say im most knowledgable on the topic- im going to be a freshman in the fall. look at us news and look at course requirements and suggestions. us news breaks down the rankings to best in manufacturing, finance, real estate, so on and so forth. im sure that it isnt necessarily true that just because a school is number 1 in one area of business that the other areas lack. however, if you look at course requirements you can get a better sense of what the program is geared toward. for me, looking at course requirements was more helpful, rather than looking at ranking/specialty because i knew i didnt want to focus on math and science but i was not sure what specific area of business i would be attracted to.</p>

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<p>can you give me the site where the finance rankings are?</p>

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<p>It matter what track of Finance you want to pursue. CMU is ranked #2 in Qualatative Analysis.</p>

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<p>Yeah.. they are great at analytical finance/quantitative analysis. also the IS program though not directly related sends 2/3 of its students to top NYC banks/consulting firms.</p>

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<p>whats IS?</p>

<p>..........</p>

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<p>they are great at quantitative finance ... because they're quantitative analysis track is ranked #2 for undergrad.</p>

<p>Also some professors that teach quantitative finance MS(#1) probably teach a couple higher up finance classes for undergrad.</p>

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can you give me the site where the finance rankings are?

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<p>As a fair warning, these rankings (as well as every other one cited in this thread) are just based on peer assessment surveys. That said...</p>

<p>Top Ten in Finance:</p>

<ol>
<li> University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)</li>
<li> New York University (Stern)</li>
<li> University of Michigan–Ann Arbor </li>
<li> University of California–Berkeley (Haas) </li>
<li> Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (Sloan)</li>
<li> University of Texas–Austin (McCombs) </li>
<li> Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley)
Ohio State University–Columbus (Fisher) </li>
<li> U. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) </li>
<li> Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
University of Virginia (McIntire)</li>
</ol>

<p>If you want to go the i-banking route, I'd recommend NYU Stern over Tepper. Prestige of the two schools is about the same but Stern has a much better finance program. Wall Street firms tend to recruit Tepper grads as quants, more than the analyst -> i-banker track.</p>