<p>Does Vandy have an undergraduate business school? If so, how is it rated?</p>
<p>there is no undergraduate business school at Vandy, though there are several business minors and a 5 year MBA joint program with the Owen Graduate School of Business.</p>
<p>Most kids will major in econ and minor in managerial studies (finance, etc.)</p>
<p>There is no undergraduate business major at Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>Search would have quickly found:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=98131%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=98131</a></p>
<p>There are not several business minors, only one.</p>
<p>There is no longer a 5-year MBA program (dual A&S/Eng and MBA). It can happen, but it's very rare and it'll likely be for an athlete who still has eligibility and has finished undergraduate studies. Do not confuse this with early option for Medical School. It is nothing like that. It is very important for B-Schoolers to work some time (but also not too long) between undergraduate studies and an MBA program.</p>
<p>fromt the Vanderbilt website:</p>
<p>By combining graduate-level courses at Owen with an undergraduate program through Vanderbilt College of Arts and Sciences, students may obtain both the baccalaureate degree and the MBA degree in five years (ten semesters). The baccalaureate from Vanderbilt University is awarded at the end of the fourth year under the Senior-in-Absentia Program, and the MBA is awarded by Owen at the end of the fifth year.</p>
<p>Acceptance into the five-year program is extremely competitive and requires transfer credit earned in undergraduate courses. Students must enroll in a full load of Owen core courses in the fall semester of the fourth year to ensure that the basic requirements for continued study in management are fulfilled. Therefore, undergraduate courses in statistics, financial and managerial accounting, intermediate macroeconomics, and intermediate microeconomics are essential in order to obtain waivers from core courses.</p>
<p>Students should meet with the Owen Academic Programs Director in the spring of their sophomore year, before fall registration, to plan their coursework accordingly. They must apply to Owen for admission to the five-year program during their junior year. Applicants are subject to competitive Owen admission requirements, and no student is assured of admission to the MBA program. Students who are accepted to Owen will be registered with Owen for the final three semesters of the five-year program even though they actually begin their management studies in the fall of their senior year. Students pay tuition to the College of Arts and Sciences for the fall semester of their fourth year, after which all tuition is paid to Owen.</p>
<p>Saying no program might have been insider thinking. But consider the following:</p>
<p>It is not a very active program, so virtually no program at all. The seats are rare. There are at most 1 or 2 in each Owen class. Athlete and family business types are really the most frequently fillers of these slots, if there are any for a given class.</p>
<p>1) Going straight from U.Grad to B-School is not liked by MBA recruiters.
2) The students simply do not have the work experience to bring to the curriculum and it hinders the MBA peer experience, which depends heavily on group work.</p>
<p>The program used to be quite promoted in the early 90s. There are still, and like I said always will be, vestiges of it, but it's rare and the cases are VERY specific and the Dean virtually has to sign off the student. The students that have done this in the past are top shelf, but they often are a bit unappreciated by their peers, many of which are 6-10 years their senior with work experience.</p>
<p>Conclusion, this program should not be a decision point for an applying U.Grad. The early acceptance to Medical School is very different.</p>
<p>good points. I knew though that I had read it somewhere!</p>