Does interest in Business rule out LACs?

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<p>Wake Forest is certainly a very good option. My list is not ALL LACs or ALL small universities that offer business. I should have clarified that. Some of the ones I listed come up as being strong in business, but there are surely others. </p>

<p>I tried to focus primarily on LACs as that is what the OP was asking about.</p>

<p>By the way, Wake Forest is strong in Business. It tends to come up as a university as strong in Business and not under LACs or Small Universities. If we are talking of other universities strong in business, there are lots to mention such as American, Boston College, Boston University, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, Emory, Fordham, Georgetown, Ithaca, NYU, Pepperdine, Penn, Notre Dame, MIT, RPI, U of Richmond, Santa Clara, USC, SMU, Syracuse, TCU, Tulane, Villanova, WUSTL, UMich, Berkeley, UVM, UVA, William and Mary, Miami U of Ohio, Indiana U, etc.</p>

<p>I probably should have put U of Richmond under “LAC.”</p>

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<p>Of these I put a + by those I think actually have good recruiting on campus. The rest I’m not so sure.</p>

<p>Agnes Scott College
Bucknell University+
Calvin College
Claremont McKenna College+
Eckerd College
Franklin and Marshall College+
Gettysburg College+
Guilford College
Hendrix College
Lafayette College+
Lake Forest College
Lewis and Clark College
Millsaps College
Morehouse College+
Muhlenberg College
Oglethorpe College
Ohio Wesleyan University
Rhodes College
Ripon College
Skidmore College
Southwestern University
Stetson College
Susquehanna University
Washington and Jefferson College
Washington and Lee University+
Whittier College
Wofford College+</p>

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<p>Bentley and Babson are both business-oriented and small enough to be LAC-like.</p>

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<p>Dickinson and Bard are not on the list. Bard instituted business to protect the arts, according to the prez, Leon Botstein. The future of the arts is in the hands of enlightened businesses is the Bard philosophy.</p>

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<p>I will just point out that Dickinson is a very specific major called International Business and Management, and not a conventional business major.</p>

<p>For Bard, I don’t see a “business” major as you mention. I do see an “Economics and Finance” program which is a 5-year B.S./B.A. dual-degree program (a B.S. degree in economics and finance and a B.A. degree in an academic program other than economics).</p>

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<p>How about in the West? Does anyone have any business school recommendations for that area of the country? Any thoughts about the business schools at U of Puget Sound, Seattle U or the like?</p>

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<p>Do you know how many people you just eliminated from going to college with that standard? Geesh.</p>

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<p>Econ was one of the most popular majors at my CTCL alma mater, and those guys went on to become businessmen, bank VP’s, the head of Wrigley Corporation, President at Motley Fool, and lots more. The B.A. is not a terminal degree.</p>

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<p>As Mini mentioned, Claremont McKenna is a liberal arts school with a terrific economics dept that has not only an economics major, but also an economics/accounting major, a highly regarded sequence in finance and a leadership sequence with many excellent management courses. Many of the top investment banks, consulting firms and Fortune 500 corporations recruit on campus. As she also mentioned, it is hard to get into. The school only admitted 13% of the applicants who applied this year.</p>