<p>I am a rising senior in high school and I wanted to know when new rankings should be coming out for undergrad business and specifically in finance? I am not too picky with rankings but would like to see what some of the b-schools trends are in the past year. I was wondering when new rankings would come out for businessweek, U.S. news, or bloomberg? I am greatly considering finance as a major in college and wanted more information on the top schools for finance. If anyone has info on upcoming rankings or when they will be out I'd appreciate it!</p>
<p>They don’t change much from year to year (or ever, really), so just look at the most recent rankings you can find.</p>
<p>don’t really know the exact order, but: wharton, sloan (MIT) , ross (michigan), haas (berkeley), stern (NYU), mcintire (uva)</p>
<p>there’s probably some more i missed</p>
<p>Group 1:
UPenn-Wharton</p>
<p>Group 2:
NYU-Stern
MIT-Sloan
Michigan-Ross</p>
<p>Group 3:
UC Berkeley-Haas
UVA-McIntire
UNC-Kenan Flagler
Texas-McCombs</p>
<p>All of these schools have very respected and high ranking finance departments.</p>
<p>Berkeley has to be in tier 2. It’s second only to Stanford on the West Coast for San Fran/LA offices and I’ve heard of people working at BX out of Haas. Also, Cornell should be ranked somewhere. Lots of those guys on Wall Street. Perhaps G-Town can replace Berk in tier 3</p>
<p>Business week has a finance ranking. I think it’s as follows- Notre dame, UVA, Wharton, babson, stern, Michigan, haas</p>
<p>ok thank you, I have been looking at the 2011 Bloomberg businessweek undergrad rankings for overall business. Any idea when the 2012 one comes out? We have to wait until january? Thank you for the responses.</p>
<p>GROUP 1:
UPenn-Wharton
Columbia University (Financial Economics major)</p>
<p>GROUP 2:
NYU-Stern
Michigan-Ross
UC Berkeley-Haas
Northwestern University (Financial Economics certificate)
Duke University (Economics w/ Finance concentration)</p>
<p>GROUP 3:
UVA-McIntire
Texas-McCombs
UNC-Kenan Flagler
Georgetown-McDonough</p>
<p>Those three groups are typically the strongest, but other good programs include:
WUSTL, Emory, Notre Dame, USC, etc…</p>
<p>Do NOT go by what Businessweek says - those rankings are very skewed and 95% of people will agree that they’re not accurate at all!</p>
<p>UC Berkeley offers some of the most excellent undergrad classes on finance, but everyone at Haas is still officially a “B.S Business Administration”, with no official concentrations.</p>
<p>Finance tier 1 is definitely Wharton, Sloan, Haas, Ross, and Stern.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley is a top notch business school, but so are all of those schools in groups 1 - 3. However, Wharton is definitely above all the schools in group 2 and 3.</p>
<p>@Andrewt. Idk where u got this from but it’s quite off. Yes upenn Columbia are good but u have schools there that didn’t land any jobs in competitive financial areas. if you speak with financial firms (morgan stanley, goldman, etc)on wall st they’ll email u a list of schools they hired from. I have MANY recruitment statements and alot of these schools aren’t on any of the lists.</p>
<p>^ sry not a lot, half of the schools. I’m not trying to come off as a d1ck. I’m just helping the OP get the correct information.</p>
<p>The OP asked about the top finance programs, not the best schools for Wall Street IB. There are a ton of threads on that in the investment banking forum. Due to the fact that WS IB is the most lucrative career for finance majors, there probably is a correlation between the top finance schools and the top schools for Wall Street, but it’s not 100% the same. </p>
<p>For example, Texas and Berkeley are excellent schools for regional boutique IB in the Southwest and the west coast regions.</p>
<p>Finally, keep in mind that not all finance majors even want to do IB, so compiling a list of the best finance programs by virtue of their WS placement is not 100% accurate.</p>
<p>^fair enough</p>
<p>how does Kelley at IU and Carlson at the University of Minnesota rank? Are they close to tier 3 for finance or not? I was just curious because many of the top schools are 50k plus, also what about Boston College’s Carroll School of Management? Is it ranked well for finance? Thanks again for the information!</p>
<p>Also because I know I want to go into finance, could someone please post the finance rankings on US News? I can only see the top 10 for free and don’t want to pay $25 just to see the one list as I’m not interested in any of the other rankings. If anyone could post a list of the top 25-30 finance undergrad business programs that would be great. I will be applying to schools within the next month and need to narrow my list down for reaches and such! Someone please post finance rankings if they have an account. Much appreciated. Thanks again</p>
<p>Kelley has a great finance program. I can send more details about it in a PM, but I will be working with lots of Wharton, Stern, Ross and Haas grads this summer when I graduate (did over the past summer and was lucky enough to get a return offer).</p>
<p>Wharton, Stern, Ross, and Hass grads!! OMGGGGGGGGGGG you are on the path to victory!!
Congrats, you conquered the world. In fact you are on top of it!! That is so amazing!!!11
You are an awesome individual and you will be successful in life.</p>
<p>Way to go son</p>
<p>Hi, I have a question. I hope to go to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and go into their business school. I know that their accounting program is highly regarded and one of the top undergrad programs in the nation. But, is their finance program still highly regarded and heavily recruited? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!</p>
<p>To Trustyrusty4, Carlson has a decent program, but virtually no recruiting for investment banking.
If wall street is your goal, Boston College is better by leaps and bounds.</p>