<p>I am from NY and I would like to know about Farmer's business connections and partnerships with cities in the Northeast. All advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks </p>
<p>Just my opinion, but in the Midwest Farmer is just a little behind IU/Kelley School, but it is not as well known in the NE as some other business schools, even those that many might say are not as good. That said, we are from DC area, my son was accepted there, and was more interested in going there than to IU, once we visited. He wound up at UMD/Smith School, but Farmer was a very close second choice. </p>
any other insight?
I’m not sure what type of info. You are looking for. I think it would be. Great place to spend four years. A lot depends on what you want to do when you are done with college.
You have P&G HQ that recruits since they are in Cincinnati, OH
This Forbes article on some well-placed Farmer School alums may be of interest:
Adam Bain, Kevin George Among Miami University Alumni Returning To The ‘Cradle Of Marketers’:
A very close friend is an investment banker in NYC who works for a well-known global bank. Farmer is known to
them as is Kelley and they have hired from both. They have also visited and hired from schools as small as DePauw. You might be surprised to hear that they hire a fair number of kids who are not business majors. My friend was not a business major and is now a Managing Director. As my fiend puts it “we are looking for rock stars at good schools”. Personality is very important too.
But some/much of the hiring and interviewing is based on where the senior folks at the IB attended. A senior banker might lobby and even demand that a summer intern be hired from his alma mater. So my friend has hired from several schools because he was told to do so and he has had to pass over candidates he liked better from other schools. He is now high enough up the food chain that he has plenty of input on summer intern spots. Not surprisingly, most of his recent hires were from his alma mater but I know at least one was from Kelley.
You might also kow that at many banks, most summer interns who do well are offered FT spots and if you are not a summer intern it is almost impossible to receive a FT offer at many IBs.
Others divisions of a large bank have different hiring practices. I work for a division of a very large global bank but I’m in the Private Client Group and (thankfully) have nothing to do with hiring. My group is more of a meritocracy - a degree from a good school and good grades will get you in the dorr but won’t do a single thing to help you climb the ladder. The top two in my regional group both graduated from 2nd choice state schools.
Not sure any of that helps. I’d suggest that where ever you attend you work to make connections early, attend alumni events even before graduation. Connecitons made can be important. Many are eager and willing to help students from their alma mater.
Interesting that you mentioned DePauw. It does have a great Business Cooperative but not really a business school. It just goes to show that a good person from a good school will get a good job.
Follow the alumni, employer rankings, and placement ratios from both Kelley campuses and see where it takes you. Bloomington is more East Coast and Chicago. Indianapolis is more Regional. Both place Kelley hires in top companies all of the time.
A few kids from DePauw have been hired by big time investment banks because DePauw grads hold senior positions. Beleive it or not, undergrad business school doesn’t matter much to many employers. Middlebury College and Amherst supply a steady stream to investment banks and they are both LAC who don’t offer a business major. Ditto Harvard, Columbia and other Ivies. Many at Goldman, JP Morgan etc just want to hire rockstar undergrads and many of those employers don’t care what the undergrad major might be. They want really bright kids who will work very had and who communicate well. After a few years of seasoning the new employees can think about an MBA if it is needed to advance.