<p>Just wondering where one can find what schools companies usually recruit at. Just reading a thing on businessweek.com and was checking some top companies and a few have only 30 campuses they recruiting heavily on.</p>
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<p>You can get recruited by a top company from any top school, I imagine, especially the Ivies and the rest of the Top 20</p>
<p>Go to a top 10-15 overall (Duke, Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Chicago, Northwestern, Amherst, Williams, etc.) and major in econ or go to a top 5 business (Wharton, MIT Sloan, Michigan Ross, UNC, UVA). Top recruiting drops fast after these.</p>
<p>Chicago is the best econ school, but do you have to be at the top of your class, or is just graduating with honors enough?</p>
<p>Econ rank is irrelevant for business recruiting, far too many people misinterpret Chicago's econ dept rank as an in into recruiting. Its the overall school reputation that matters, that's why places like Williams do so well. Chicago is a top 15 school right alongside northwestern, cornell, etc. To think its econ gives it an edge is just plain incorrect.</p>
<p>and if cant get into a top business school?</p>
<p>If you can't get into a top 25 go to a school in a location where you would like to live. Local firms usually tap into the good local school in the area (example Atlanta firms will look at GaTech for business jobs).</p>
<p>Exactly. Look, defionately go to a place where u see urself working in the future, atleast in the regional area. And pick the best school in that city, region or state. Most tp companies recruit regionally cause they have offices all over the U.S. so for example, Citibank will recruit all over the U.S but will recruit for jobs in that region. In most cases.
You do not have to go to a top 25 school.
Here is an example:
I got into several top 25 business schools: Purdue, MSU, Ohio State, Indiana and I ended up picking University of Miami. Miami is not ranked in the top 25, more like the top 40 according to U.S News. But i found out that the exact same companies that recruit at Purdue and all the other top firms, recruit at Miami. The only difference is starting salaries. at the top 25 schools, u start with 80,000 with an MBA. at the top 50 schools, in example UM, it is 70,000. The difference isnt that big. I would say that u should definately pick a school that is overall ranked a top school at least in the top 50.</p>