Business Schools

Hey guys… I need a few high A tier business schools for my college list. Like NYU or UC berkeley. I am looking for a college that is preferably large, in a large city and has a good business school. Please help me out.
If you want I can help you guys with a college search too!
Thanks!

Boston College, UT Austin, Northeastern, University of Miami, Emory, Georgetown, Wharton

Notre Dame is not in a big city but is an incredible experience, so you might want to look at ND. Cornell the same.

@“Pakshal Mehta” The Wharton School at Penn is seen as the best undergrad business school in the country. Haas, Stern and Sloan are also good ones. Dyson at Cornell is also good and it the only other ivy league undergrad business school in addition to Wharton.

Oh BTW, virtually every Big Ten campus and the surrounding town is like a city for a college student. So consider Michigan and Indiana University.

Thanks guys!! Im really looking towards Stern and Haas… Ive already applied to IUB. I will definitely look at Sloan. Thanks for the help

Tepper School of Business @ Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

FWW I don’t think you can apply to Haas. My understanding is that you need to apply as a junior transfer into the b-school. Last year approximately 34% of Berkeley students who applied to Haas were admitted.
https://haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/ucb_admissions.html
https://haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/class_profile.html

Yep I know that… I guess I will have to take that risk

I would add Bentley and Babson. About as far from the city as BC. Villanova is a short train ride (10 miles) from Philly.

^The lower half of the BC campus is inside the Boston city limits and there is a T stop at campus. Off-campus living areas are urban, in Boston or Brookline. It is really easy to work in Boston while living on the BC campus, if that has importance to someone. Both Babson and Bentley are more suburban.

You should apply to Michigan Ross. It is now a direct admit school for the most part.

Thanks guys! Ive applied to Babson EA (fingers crossed)… as for Michigan Ross I know its a great school but I am worried about the portfolio… and SOO many Essays!!

What do you guys think I should choose from Boston Uni, Boston College, or Case Western Reserve Uni?? I have to choose one. Im confused!

Can’t speak to Case Western, but definitely BC over BU. BU is a good school but BC is considered top shelf in undergrad business, especially finance (very good placement in both NYC and Boston for investment banking and asset management). You can get their form BU, just harder as BC has a pipeline into major employers. BC admissions is more selective although BU is getting harder. Both have direct access into business school which is great.

Also think about “feel”. BC and BU are VERY different. Beautiful suburban, self contained campus, gothic, etc vs. urban setting without a real campus feel (yes they have a campus but it’s really just a bunch of buildings on a major street in the city.) If you like the burbs, you’ll love the feel of BC. If you like the city, BU is awesome (right across from Fenway Park, great shopping, etc.). BC has more of a undergrad community, “we’re in this together” feel where as BU is more of a “the city is my campus” environment.

Thank you so much for your reply! Although, I heard that BC is very religious-centric, and they compulsory mass and religious studies and stuff- And I absolutely do NOT want that. Is that True??
And can someone talk about Case Western???

Don’t know about the mass but I don’t think so. They do require a core courses which include 2 or 3 religion based courses. However, these are more like religious studies, not Jesuit based classes. For example you could take a course on the religions of the world, or Hindu or Judaism, etc.

When it’s all said and done, there is a Jesuit tone, as there should be, being a Jesuit school. If you want a school completely devoid of that, remove BC from your list. I would check it out first.

MIT is STEM focused and, although Sloan has an outstanding undergraduate business program, my understanding (from reading many student and alumni comments) is that it really doesn’t make much sense to attend MIT strictly for Sloan undergraduate business. Plus, of the schools you and posters upthread have mentioned, MIT has the highest academic standards for admits and the lowest admission rate. Very tough to get in.

Having said all that, MIT is indeed a feeder school for Wall Street and many MIT undergrads do end up working in investment banking, etc. These kids though generally had a STEM major, with possibly a minor in finance. There are not that many MIT undergrads that only major in business/finance.

@“Pakshal Mehta” There are dozens of discussions here at CC about the Jesuit, Catholic aspects of BC. There is no mandatory mass attendance and I suspect your source for that info knows very little about BC. The only requirement is two semesters of theology; here are a couple of examples: http://courses.bc.edu/course/THEO/1700; http://courses.bc.edu/course/THEO/1161

@evergreen5, thanks for confirming what I thought was the case going off memory from our visit over a year ago. There certainly is a sense or hint of religion on campus, but not overbearing and not confrontational. More “Golden Rule” like and accepting.

My S went to Fordham which is a Jesuit school. He knew people of many faiths, people who were atheist and agnostic who were happy there. There was never a requirement to attend mass. The Jesuits are educators first and foremost.

That said, I do believe that in order to be comfortable at a Jesuit school one must: 1) be respectful of religion; 2) be OK seeing religious symbols (ex. crucifix etc.) on campus; 3) look at the core curriculum online and be fine with taking any required theology/philosophy classes.

@happy1, Excellent points! Great way to explain what we saw at BC.