<p>Hey what are your opinions on the 2 schools? I plan to major in business and the business school at Emory is rated higher but that obviously wont make me happier. So I was wondering for those whose have opinions on both schools to voice them cause I dont know many differences. Thanks so much.</p>
<p>Emory def has the better business school.</p>
<p>emory has one of the top business schools in the country, emory no question.</p>
<p>The Olin Business School at Wash U is fantastic. The staff is very supportive, as an undergrad I am constantly surrounded by helpful and friendly graduate students in the business school, and overall Wash U is a great place to attend. I think you will be much happier at Wash U because the environment is very optimistic and all the students are helpful and nice. At Emory recruiters will mainly be from the southeast.</p>
<p>emory's got a much better business school, although both schools are excellent academically. emory is much better known in the northeast as well.</p>
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<p>thats what i've heard from many others...washu is much more midwestern</p>
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<p>Agreed. I live in NE through 10th grade, and never once heard of WUSTL until I moved to Michigan my junior year. Of course, the HS I would've graduated from back hom sent 4 of roughly 80 grads to WUSTL, so it couldn't be that obscure there either. I would however say, based on my experience, that you are correct in noting a higher level of name recognition in the Midwest than elsewhere.</p>
<p>As to the OP, while it is true that Emory has the superior business school, as has been properly noted, there are other factors to consider. The students appear to be nicer, and the administration more responsive, at WUSTL than Emory. The environment on campus just seems much better at WUSTL.</p>
<p>Deloitte has increasingly made WashU a target school, and it's not that WashU Olin quality is lacking but you're gonna have to try a little harder for job prospects. It's because WashU is in St. Louis and there's really not a lot of good colleges around (Chicago and Northwestern are 5 hours driving distance away), so that deters quite a lot of big recruitment from flying to St. Louis to just recruit at WashU. However, the big companies do recognize the quality of WashU students, and quite a few Olin grads do end up working in NYC.</p>
<p>The interesting thing is, both schools Emory and WashU are rising regional powers--that is to say, they're most known regionally, whether in the Southeast or Midwest, so it's not like one has a distinct advantage over another when it comes to trying to get a job on Wall Street.</p>
<p>I have to say though, from what current students at Emory have said, the business school there is very competitive and the atmosphere is grade-grubbing and very preprofessional and driven. When I took the Olin tour at WashU, the tour guides said they preferred WashU (one of them turned down NYU Stern for WashU Olin) because of the awesome environment and the absence of a cutthroat atmosphere yet great academics too.</p>
<p>Personally, I would visit both schools and do more research about it. Either choice is a good one. I would talk with professors, take a tour, talk with current students, and see if I like the overall vibe and environment. And this is my two cents, mind you, but the students at WashU are incredibly happy people. I haven't visited Emory, though, so I can't speak for them.</p>
<p>I think it really depends where you want to work--in Chicago, then go to WashU, in Atlanta or the Southeast go to Emory--if you want to head to NYC then I'd say go for the school you like best, both are good business schools.</p>
<p>Speaking from the DC metropolitan area, people at my school actually know more about WashU than Emory--WashU is one of my senior class' most popular applicant schools.</p>
<p>I really wouldn't worry about comparing the prestige of either school, because both are increasing prestige-wise and have yet to really break out of regional prestige, in contrast to, for example, Northwestern, which has both regional and national prestige. WashU and Emory are getting there, but not quite there yet. </p>
<p>And seriously, the true opinions that matter are your employer and grad schools, which definitely both recognize Emory and WashU, and this whole "oh, well, Emory's more known where I grew up" is really irrelevant in the big scheme of things.</p>
<p>I agree with you, though, do not make your decision simply based on rankings. There are a plethora of other factors to consider, as others have mentioned, that will directly affect you when you're going to be living at either WashU or Emory for the next four years. Many people change majors many times during their college years, so I would also advise you to think beyond the picture of business school, so, who knows, you might end up teaching! Or being an engineer. Whatever. Anything can happen. You should also consider more practical matters like seeing if you have the financial means to afford going to either WashU or Emory (both are very expensive), if you "click" with either campus, etc.</p>
<p>I love WashU though, I have to say :) I almost ended up going there.</p>
<p>I don't know about business community, but everybody who is anybody in academics in general, and in sciences in particular, knows WashU very well.</p>
<p>From a parent's perspective, my son just graduated from WUSTL Olin. His friends got very good jobs (he is going on to graduate school). I've noticed that the families of many of the friends he's made are very well connected, and networking is always important. It is true, the school as well as the students are extremely supportive. The atmosphere is positive. I know of several students who have attended Emory, and rarely do you hear the word "love" when talking about the school. When you talk to Wash U students, you rarely hear a student who doesn't love it. Kind of like Disney for students, the happiest school on earth. When we visited 4 years ago, my son commented on how happy the students looked. So for us, it was extremely positive, and if happy matters, it's a great environment.</p>
<p>The two would seem to me to be peers, equal in rankings, rather than Emory being "much better" than Washu. According to USNWR, Emory's professional business school is ranked 24th in the nation (with a 3.7 peer assessment rating) and Washu's professional school is ranked 25th (a tie) with a PA rating of 3.6.</p>
<p>The undergraduate business programs at Emory and Washu are tied for 12th place nationwide in the USN ratings, both with a peer assessment score of 3.9.</p>
<p>This isn't a quality of education decision, it's matter of where you prefer to be for four years.</p>
<p>business week ranks emory's undergraduate program 5th</p>
<p>I don't trust BusinessWeek's rankings. I can't imagine Emory's business school, although it is a good school, I simply don't agree that it should be ranked higher than Michigan Ross, NYU Stern, and Berkeley Haas. The way they rank schools is a bit fishy... </p>
<p>That just doesn't make any sense. Goizueta above Stern? No way.</p>
<p>Anyways, longhorn111 seems to be a very pro-Emory person. I would still prefer WashU over Emory.</p>
<p>Looking at the Business Week ranking methodology on the UG programs is confusing, though. </p>
<p>Emory and Washu get identical A+ marks for teaching quality and facilities, yet Emory is given an Academic Quality Rank of 7, while Washu is 24. The only difference I see in the data is Washu has a slightly higher student-faculty ratio at 11.9, while Emory's is 9.6. Also, the Student Survey ranking gives Emory a much higher rank, 3, while Washu is 24 (a mistake or WU students were disgruntled that year?) </p>
<p>Ironically, Washu's MBA feeder school rank (5) is higher ** than Emory's (9) and the Recruiter Survey ranking is **higher for Washu (26) than for Emory (38). The median starting salaries for graduates is the same, $55,000.</p>
<p>I don't have time to analyze their methodology and weighting, but the total scores in the BW rating system seem "off" to me.</p>
<p>My daughter considered both schools. One problem with Emory is that they don't accept you directly into the business school. I think they accept you in your junior year based on how well you do in the core business classes. My daughter, who is going to Wash U, actually didn't do very well so far in her core business classes - she's not great in math. So she probably wouldn't have gotten into the B-school at Emory. She thinks she'll do well in marketing or organizational behavior classes so hopefully she'll be happy that she is in business but I wouldn't want to be scrambling for a major as a junior.</p>
<p>Also, I think Emory is a bit more "fratty" and Wash U is friendlier.</p>
<p>amazon is right. at emory, you complete more of a core curriculum during your first two years, then apply to transfer into the business school.</p>
<p>both schools are probably equally repubtable, and have their own individual strengths. from visiting both and having friends at both, i think the campus of WU is more beautiful, friendlier, happier, has less "red tape", and more student focused.</p>
<p>the undergrad b-school program at WU has the disctinct advantage (over many others, not just Emory) of being freshman entry. you take a Management 100 course in your first semester freshman year that has many case studies, guest speakers, and is overall a really unique class. Because it is freshman-entry, you have the rare ability to decide if business is right for you... if you decide it isn't, it is incredbily easy to move to another division. Similary, you can switch into the business school at any time. When in the business school, somewhere around 50% of your classes need to be taken in other divisions, so you have that opportunity to stretch out both business and liberal arts courses over 4 years. The opportunity to do research with professors is a great way to build that resume, and over 60% of undergrads do research at WU (a stat found in their viewbooks). the business school's website has an interesting PDF document of where their graduates go... about 98% had a job within 6 months of graduation, and it also lists average starting salaries of their graduates based on what industry they were employed by, what areas of the country they went to, and the most common employers... Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, McKinsey, Boeing, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ernst and Young, and Lehman Brothers were among the most popular.</p>
<p>I'd say that both Emory and Wash U have outstanding professors, many opportunities, great companies hiring graduates, etc. In either school you go to, as long as you have a strong GPA, have leadership in extracurriculars, and spend some time looking for internships (no career center at any school, no matter how prestigious, will "give" you a job) - you'll be successful and have a great job. Focus on the quality of student life, opportunities to do what YOU want to do at any point during your undergraduate years, and what campus seems more like "home" to you.</p>
<p>And why not Goizuetta over Stern? Uhmm...knock knock fraking ranked by BusinesWeek themself!</p>