Babson’s program is topnotch. Some merit aid is available. It is not in Boston, but Boston is pretty accessible.
@merc81 re post #16, looks like that ranking is behind a paywall.
Bloomberg/Businessweek rate TCNJ higher than Rutgers here - http://www.bloomberg.com/bschools/rankings/#5
talking "undergraduate " business schools soley. Geesh. see-http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-03-20/best-undergraduate-b-schools-ranking-history on this the most followed undergraduate b-school rankings by Bloomberg
New Jersey(tcnj) is ranked #59 vs Rutgers brunswick at 81 and 119. Plus TCNJ is ranked 20th accounting program in the country as per http://www.accounting.com/rankings/best-bachelors-in-accounting-programs/ Rutgers ranked #31.
here’s bloomberg for 2014 http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-04-04/the-complete-ranking-best-undergraduate-business-schools-2014
and here’s the ranking for 2015 http://www.bloomberg.com/bschools/rankings/undergraduate_mba_profiles/college-of-nj.html
A CONSISTENT outperform over Rutgers undergraduate business school for years now.
when you consider the small size of TCNJ and the personal attention the indivdual student gets, IMO if you can get
in (as the requiremetns are tougher) its a very good place to be. And it IS well known in the business community in the tri-state area.
They only offer the undergraduate program , and therefore need to be considered vs other undergraduate programs.
Re #22, from the current USNWR: “Each year, U.S. News ranks undergraduate business programs . . .” Business and engineering are actually the only two undergraduate programs specifically ranked by USNWR.
Here’s a quote from the survey 2015 -" Providence College tallied the biggest rise among all schools, jumping 34 spots, to No. 75, on an improved employer-survey score. Rutgers Business School’s New Brunswick, N.J., campus fell farthest, dropping 37 spots, to 118. (Rutgers also has a separate business program on its Newark, N.J., campus, which ranked 128.) New Brunswick dropped 26 places in the employer survey; it also dropped 11 or more places in three other categories.
Enrollment in Rutgers’ New Brunswick program has grown 73 percent over the last five years, says Michael L. Barnett, vice dean for academic programs, and the school is still developing resources to serve its larger student body. “It will take some time for the benefits of these investments to be reflected in the rankings,” he says.
One reason why there’s little overlap between undergraduate and MBA top 10s is that such schools as the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and other institutions with top-flight MBA programs don’t offer undergraduate business programs."
when it comes to business, Bloomberg is the list.
your usnr survey is only a survey of academia faculty and is entirely heresay. Here’s a quote from USNR
U.S. News’ overall ranking for national universities, its undergraduate business program list is a stripped-down, no frills version. It is based entirely on the magazine’s survey of business school deans and senior faculty, many of whom vote on the basis of a program’s reputation–not its true quality. In the spring of 2013, participants were asked to rate the quality of all programs they were familiar with on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished). Some 36 percent of those surveyed responded. - See more at: http://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/2014/06/30/2014-u-s-news-undergraduate-business-ranking/#sthash.6x4gAg0W.dpuf
“Your [USNWR] survey is only a survey of academia faculty and is entirely [hearsay].” (#28)
Your? A ranking with an accompanying source was provided without an opinion (#16).
“Here’s a [quotation] from USNWR”
You quoted Poets and Quants.
For your criteria – city in the northeast – here are the UG business schools and their Bloomberg rank.
Boston College - 4
Penn/Wharton - - 7
NYU/Stern – 14
Carnegie Mellon/Tepper – 17
Georgetown – 18
Northeastern – 19
Bentley – 20
Villanova – 24
BU – 25
Babson – 26
RPI – 35 (in a small city)
Fordham – 38
Syracuse – 55
GW – 59
American – 62
U Pitt – 84
So there you have it. With your stats, you are likely to get admitted to all of them from Northeastern on down. From Georgetown and up, you are a reasonable candidate.
Others in NE, but not in cities. You would be likely to be admitted to these.
Penn State – 30
Lehigh – 31
UMass Amherst – 36
@merc81 Bloomberg is the most reliable undergrad business ranking. It has a more complex methodology that outputs better, more full proof results. Besides, Bloomberg is the king of finance in undergraduate business education with all of the Bloomberg terminals and finance labs, so it makes sense that we use its source. Universities even use the number of Bloomberg terminals as a form of comparing it’s prestige with peer undergrad business programs.
ahem… seems you purposefully left off TCNJ (the college of New Jersey) which is ranked #63 on that list.
oh and it’s accounting program is #20 in the entire country . TCNJ
I’d second Fordham ,especially if you have stats which could get your merit aid there. You could try Manhattan College as well. Also SUNY Binghamton and SUNY Buffalo are reasonably priced options even for OOS students. Other pricey options to consider (depending on your stats and if you might get merit aid) might be BC, Northeastern, Bentley, Babson, and Villanova.
Loyola, Baltimore is not too far out of the Northeast. You’d likely qualify for a significant presidential fellowship.