<p>Yes. I knew students with 2.5 GPAs who secured jobs that paid $40k, and that was back in 1995-1998. Assuming the Economy bounces back in the next year or so, a 3.0+ GPA from Michigan should be good enough to land you a solid job at a good company. However, much of one’s success in finding a good job depends on the individual. Proactivity, preparation for the interview (company research, understanding the interview process, rehearsing answers to different questions etc…) and presentation (being well groomed, well dressed and presentable) all play an important part.</p>
<p>If you plan on getting an MBA, I would not recommend getting a BBA because the programs would be too similar and you would be missing out on the opportunity to study something else during undergrad years.</p>
<p>ok that seems to be the case, I am just hoping with a 3.3 that I will be able to land a good job in a major city from U of M with econ major</p>
<p>At Michigan: Ross = potential to get a better job in business than non-Ross = better application to MBA programs since work experience is most important.</p>
<p>In general (not at UM): Fairly redundant to study business twice. Completely depends on job placement of the undergraduate business program.</p>
<p>WORK EXPERIENCE TRUMPS EVERYTHING ELSE FOR MBA. If you’re primary goal is to get into the best MBA program possible, do whatever will set you up for the best possible job post-undergrad. This is holding all else equal, such as utility gained from studying another academic discipline.</p>
<p>my goal: work for a company with my bachelors in mech E and then have them pay for me to get an MBA part time</p>
<p>Just curious, MLDWody what do you want to do after the MBA? I realize that getting an MBA after a technical degree is pretty common, but what roles do these MBA grads usually get? Do they want to go back to the industry they started out in, and switch over to the business side of things? </p>
<p>What percentage of engineering grads pursue a masters in engineering? Seems like a pretty cool career path either way. Especially since people get time to figure out which stuff they like best.</p>
<p>As I read over the thread, I see many misconceptions about the Ross program. I must start by saying that I am not a fan of the BBA program. I prefer majoring in something more traditional. One can always hone their management education skills at the graduate level.</p>
<p>However, to suggest that Ross students do not get a sound, well-rounded education grounded in the Liberal Arts is unfair. Most Ross student I have known have been extremely refined, taking Calculus I and II (many also take Calc III), 4 semesters of a foreign language, the Great Books Sequence and several Psychology and History/Political Science courses. Very few Ross students take more than 70 credits at Ross. The remaining 50-60 credits Business students take are in the college of LSA. That’s anywhere between 12 and 15 courses. The Ross program is flexible enough to allow students to double major with relative ease.</p>
<p>What makes Ross so irresistible is its career office. Let us be honest, how many programs/universities have similar placement rates into top companies? 90% of Ross students find jobs before they graduate. The average starting salary for Ross graduates is over $60,000/year. Half of those jobs are in extremely exclusive companies such as:</p>
<p>JP Morgan 16
Citi 11
Capgemeni 7
Google 7
Accenture 6
Deutschebank 6
Goldman Sachs 6
PWC 6
UBS 6
Bain 5
E&Y 5
Microsoft 5
Morgan Stanley 4
PepsiCo 4
Procter & Gamble 4
BCG 3
Deloitte Consulting 3
Bank of America 2
Barlcays 2
Credit Suisse 2
General Electric 2
McKinsey 2
Cisco 1
Dow Chemicals 1
IBM 1</p>
<p>Those are 2010 figures…when the US and the world were going through the worst recession since the 1980s.</p>
<p>there placement seems to be unmatched. But does economics have decent placement?</p>
<p>I would not go so far as to say that Ross is “unmatched”. Wharton and Harvard have it beat. A dozen or so universities have similar placement stats I am sure.</p>
<p>LSA has “decent placement”, but nothing to the scale of Ross.</p>
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<p>Harvard has nothing on the almighty Ross. Every school tries to get a total of 10 students into MBB every year but only Ross succeeds. Can Harvard claim that they send 16 bankers and traders to JPM like Ross did this year? Most of whom are working on the Distressed Bond Trading desk in S&T or Lev Fin/M&A in IBD of course. Most Harvard grads would lucky to be working in Risk/Treasury/IT, which no Ross grad would ever even need to consider.</p>
<p>bitter man is bitter</p>
<p>I think you laid the sarcasm a little too thick there buddy, even by internet standards.</p>