Emory (Goizueta) vs Texas (McCombs) vs NYU (Stern) vs USC (Marshall)

College Majors Business Major
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<p>I am interested in these schools. For the purposes of this evaluation, please ignore financial costs. I would like to know which should be my ideal school, for which the criterion are, in order of importance.</p>

<p>Academics-Tough but rewarding, good profs, enriching experience</p>

<p>Job placement/Salary-perhaps the only quantifiable figure, but nonetheless, prestige amongst employers matters</p>

<p>Facilities- not limited to gym, including a career center, and since my passion is film, a good film program/ movie theater</p>

<p>Off campus experience- I am not a party kind of guy, but I do want to have fun</p>

<p>Overall-which uni will give me the best overall experience, and lifelong, like minded friends. Obviously you can’t answer that totally, but I am sure you know what I am hinting at.</p>

<p>Emory (Goizueta) vs Texas (McCombs) vs NYU (Stern) vs USC (Marshall)</p>

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<p>I’d say it goes:</p>

<ol>
<li>Stern</li>
</ol>

<p>gap</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Mccombs</p></li>
<li><p>Marshall</p></li>
</ol>

<p>gap</p>

<ol>
<li>Emory</li>
</ol>

<p>if you’re looking at banking, stern is a lot better than the others and mccombs does alright for energy trading/banking in Texas. USC may be better than McCombs if you want to be in Cali or the west coast though.</p>

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<p>How come emory is so low, didn’t business week rank it well. Also, what about cornell’s AEM?</p>

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<p>We looked at UT and NYU. Austin is a beautiful campus with great weather and all of the “extras” you are looking for. But it is not New York. We love New York too, but the urban campus setting was not our first choice.</p>

<p>If you can get into McComb’s Business Honors Program, it is the best. Most students double major with another business field, usually finance or accounting.</p>

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<p>What about Emory’s program</p>

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<p>Emory’s film program is non-existent…and while an EXCELLENT business school, according to recent grads we know, it doesn’t open many doors for recruiting…we know at least 3 2009 Goizueta grads who are not working and did not receive many interviews over the past year…</p>

<p>overall experience IMO goes to USC and Texas…not a big fan of NYU in terms of an all around campus experience…</p>

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<p>UT’s business school is severely underrated, in my opinion it is better than stern’s (and all the rest’s)</p>

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<p>^Texas is good if you don’t mind staying in Texas (and with their economy/low cost of living/non-freezing weather, why not), but it does not have the prestige that NYU does outside of the south I think. On the west coast, most people think UT is just another southern, football partying school, but most people know how good stern is. Just my 2 cents.</p>

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<p>Academics- According to LSAC, USC and NYU have grade inflation and the other two have deflation.</p>

<p>Job placement/Salary- NYU has really good placement on Wall Street (go figure). McCombs sends about 1 in 5 grads into investment banking and another 1 in 5 into consulting, which are pretty much the most prestigious and selective starting jobs for business majors. It has the best showing of any university in the big 4, too, so I’d put it second. USC might be slightly better than Emory.</p>

<p>Facilities- I’m not sure about the others, but McCombs has either the highest or second highest rated career services of any school and the actual building is across the street from the biggest gym on campus. UT also has the 4th largest stadium in America.</p>

<p>Off campus experience- NYU has clubs and big city stuff, UT has the live music capital of the world and 6th street, USC has a lot of commuters and Emory is… in Atlanta.</p>

<p>Overall- USC is trying to model its program after the McCombs school at UT. Enough said. NYU Stern will probably give you the best prestige and opportunity, but UT would be a more traditional college experience if you value that. USC will give you California and Emory will give you a backup.</p>

<p>Btw, I would rank them in the same order as cream, but I would say the biggest gap is actually in the place cream didn’t put a gap.</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot for you insight.
I was wondering why businessweek gave Emory such a high ranking. Since i have been nominated by gor the goizueta scholarship, do you think that i should attend even with a modest schol? I know i will not win it, but i might get some award.</p>

<p>Actually, does anyone know anything about uscs Business with an emphasis on cinematic arts?</p>

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<p>usc def has grade deflation if anything
although they removed the curve, theres no inflation from what ive seen here</p>

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<p>Abetterlife: if I remember correctly, Goizueta Scholars awards are all or none (unlike Emory Scholars)…that is there are 10 winners and that’s it…</p>

<p>My daughter was nominated two years ago; didn’t make a difference in admissions; she was waitlisted RD (didn’t accept waitlist)…best decision she ever didn’t make</p>

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<p>I’m not speculating that USC has grade inflation, the LSAC reports grade inflation/deflation by comparing graduates GPAs with scores on grad school admissions tests. Quite frankly, there isn’t a much better way to do it than that and according to it, USC has very minor grade inflation. Perhaps USC has some whininess inflation, too.</p>

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<p>Definitely Stern.</p>

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<p>stern… not even close</p>

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<p>I would personally go with Texas if I was instate. I don’t think NYU is worth a 40K education. I’ve studied there for 1 year. Life in the nyc as a college student is expensive and not a party atmosphere like it seems to be. Furthermore in this volatile economy, many Stern graduates do not work as i-bankers but instead lower end finance jobs. Last I heard, a stern econ. grad worked as an office secretary because he couldn’t find any jobs.</p>

<p>That said I think Texas is a better fit if your an instate resident.</p>

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<p>Yes, if you are in-state at Texas, it is impossible to justify not going there if you’re accepted. Also, it’s a lot closer than what the people at the bottom of the previous page would have you believe. My guess is they probably aren’t very familiar with b-schools and are just saying the one they’ve heard the most about.</p>

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<p>If I was in-state I’d go to mccombs also unless you get some serious financial aid from nyu making it much cheaper.</p>

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<p>alright, i have been browsing these forums for a while now and havent posted for a while, but i am just going to have to on this.</p>

<p>i was in a similar situation, having been accepted to usc, stern, and taking a good look at emory. i also recently graduated from usc so i can speak for marshall. </p>

<p>take a note that the schools you picked are all regional schools. ask yourself where you want to work, that will help narrow down where you want to go to school.</p>

<p>academics - at usc, it really depends on the class and the prof teaching the class. some classes are engaging with lots of group work and discussion, while some are not so much. its hard to make a finance class or accounting interesting, and they try. i can only assume its the same situation at other schools. even though usc is a private school, there is no grade inflation. usc’s administration has taken steps in the past to eliminate grade inflation. </p>

<p>job placement - usc placement in california is tops. i would assume its good in texas too, since i got a pretty hi-demand job offer in texas. the only schools that compare or are at least better for ‘business major jobs’ are stanford, cal, and ucla. outside of cali, its a different story, though your employer could send you somewhere outside of cali…people mostly come to usc to work in cali, and people who go to nyu go to work in nyc… it comes down to location, buddy.</p>

<p>facilities - marshalls’s are just ok. stern’s building looks pretty pimp from the outside. but you have better things to consider other than facilities. </p>

<p>off campus exp - depends on the city. la is seriously awesome. so is nyc. austin is a bad ass college town, and also very fun. ask yourslef if you want and urban exp or a college exp. in which case, usc will give you both. this was also a big factor for me. ill break it down like this: nyu and ut in a pot and mixed them up, you would get something that looks like usc.</p>

<p>overall exp - i am obviously biased, and i am going to have to go with sc. once you go, youre like automatically friends with any one who went. its a phenomenon unique to just a handful of schools. def take a look at the joint business/cinematic arts major at usc, if film really is your passion.</p>

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<p>and to clear some bad information on this discussion:</p>

<p>usc’s marshall school does not model itself to mccombs. i would like to see an objective and credible statement to this fact (other then some internet guy said so) before i believe that. </p>

<p>i HIGHLY DOUBT that ut sends 1/5 kids into ib and 1/5 into consulting. mccombs has some 4500 undergrads. that translates into 900 kids going into ib and 900 into consulting. and if that were the case, wall street would be saturated with ut grads. again, unless there is some employment report that proves this to be fact, its BS. and i dont think that OP is concerned with this anyway. </p>

<p>i also HIGHLY DOUBT ut has the best or anywhere near the best career services in the country. i wont go into detail with this, it should be obvious. </p>

<p>also, businessweek is a pretty weak resource for b school rankings. i am not the type to taking rank seriously, but again, it should be pretty obvious that bweek sucks in comparison to usnews.</p>