Carnegie Mellon

<p>How does carnegie mellon's undergraduate and graduate business programs rank with other schools in the nation in terms of respect of prestige, academic quality, and the school overall.</p>

<p>cmu is high on the rankings for mba</p>

<p>you should check out their rating in businessweek or on the forums</p>

<p>They also have a top undergrad program.</p>

<p>I am confused. In some rankings CMU is in the top five, but in other rankings its around 20. How is this so? Most of the other B-schools are pretty much in the same place.</p>

<p>Not so...most MBA programs fluctuate wildly in the various rankings. But by and large, conventional wisdom would suggest that CMU is one of the top 10 but not top 5 Business program at the undergraduate level and one of the top 25 but not one of the top 10 programs at the MBA level. In short, CMU is comparable to programs like Cornell, NYU, UCLA etc...</p>

<p>The Wall Street Journal ranked it as #1 as an MBA program, while US News ranked it 17 or so. Thats a pretty big disparity.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/employ/salary/ba.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/employ/salary/ba.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Not the best place. A lot of back office operational work. Not many front office positions. You are better off getting an engineering degree especially comp sci. which is highly regarded by firms.</p>

<p>Yes CMU, and the WSJ also ranked Michigan #1 and the Financial Times ranked Michigan #16. How about this...the USNWR ranked Stanford #1 and WSJ ranked them #45!!! LOL Like I said, most universities are victim of some sort of fluctuation.</p>

<p>Business school applicants should disregard rankings. The key fact for most business school applicant while judging a school is whether it is recruited from or not. You want to go to the school that has a lot of corporate presence. It all boils down to one thing: How are you going to get that coveted job?</p>

<p>CMU B-school has a strong quant reputation.</p>

<p>Would people say it is better for traders or investment bankers?</p>

<p>Could go either way. Those two jobs are not major specific.</p>