Carnegie Mellon - Tepper School of Business

College Majors Business Major
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<p>I know not much is known about the small Tepper Bschool around here and I was hoping to shed some light on some misinformed things I read on these boards. With its small size and recent gains to fame, I'm not surprised not many people know too much about this school.</p>

<p>To begin with, Tepper is actually the reason behind Newsweek's rating of CMU as the top college to get a job. Its mode companies and top recruiters are all Top Wall St. companies (Merill, Goldman, Deloitte, Citi, UBS, etc) and its median is 60k, similar to that of Stern. It is definitely a top tier Business school and has a sterling job network. </p>

<p><a href="http://tepper.cmu.edu/current-studen...d.aspx?id=1414%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://tepper.cmu.edu/current-studen...d.aspx?id=1414&lt;/a> -- Post grad survey for last year's grads</p>

<p>It has grown tremendously in the past years, especially in the past 2 years as it has reduced its acceptance rate from 20ish%, to 13%, and this year is probably less than 10%. Avg rank of students for last year was top 4%, and this year will probably be lower.</p>

<p>Tepper as well as Stern/Ross/Sloan/Haas/McDonough are of the same league, they are all the next best thing to Wharton.</p>

<p>Many are misinformed as the school is quite small and its incredible gains in reputation and networking has only been recent since the 2001 record 55 million donation by alumnus David. A. Tepper. The school has the lowest faculty:student ratio of 5:1 due to it only keeping around 80+spots for each freshman class, about 1/3 to 1/4 the size of its peers. This allows Tepper students to really benefit from individual attention and focused learning of quantitative and analytical decision making. </p>

<p>FYI: The Tepper school's acceptance rate and rank/SAT this year puts it arguably above comp sci as CMU's most selective school.</p>

<p>PS: Tepper is #2 in Operations Management, #2 in Quantitative Analysis, and #1 in IT tech as well as MIS. From personal experience, besides finance and quant, this school offers an amazing consulting reputation as my friends with 3.0s were able to get IBM Consulting/Booz Allen/Pricewater/etc.</p>

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<p>If anyone has questions I would be glad to field them, also one of the Exec Board, Milton Cofield, is very helpful and knowledgable about the business world (especially Wall St). His email is on the site tepper.cmu.edu</p>

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<p>Oh man, and I rejected Tepper. :( Well, it was a bit too expensive for international students..</p>

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<p>lol i rejected Tepper too, but i think its the same cost as most top business schools, somewhere close to 50k</p>

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<p>I must have missed the memo about it becoming difficult to get into IBM or PWC.</p>

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<p>quag_mire, not really, UVA is only about 40k, CMU is about 54k.. Haha that's quite a big diff!</p>

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<p>wow, really? lol, i don't know why i didn't apply to UVA o.O
i was on the verge of doing it in late December but then i thought that its gonna be 50k too and there's no guarantee of getting into McIntire</p>

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<p>Vector: Depends on what positon, but for a 3.0 getting those consulting/analyst position is quite rare. I have multiple friends at UVa for example (from Fairfax), and if they had a 3.0.. it'd be pretty bad. Also a 3.4 got my friend Goldman, but there's no need for my anecdotes. The survey link is in the first post.</p>

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<p>How hard is it to junior transfer to CMU?</p>

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<p>Ok, perhaps I'm just out of the loop. I went to a school that wasn't top 100 at the time and we had 16 people receive offers to do IT consulting for PWC, and IBM was certainly not out of reach.</p>

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<p>Kmzizzle: I believe about 10% of transfers are accepted. However, Tepper does not accept outside transfers as the courses and material taught are very specialized all 4 years (no substitutes).</p>