Georgetown MSB vs. NYU Stern Vs. UVa Echols Vs. Carnegie Mellon Vs. BC CSOM

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hey,</p>

<p>I've been recently accepted to these schools and I'm not sure exactly where I want to go. I want to major in Finance and eventually go into wealth management. What would be the best school to go to in terms of:</p>

<ol>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>Job Placement</li>
<li>Opportunities</li>
<li>Campus Life </li>
<li>Social Life</li>
</ol>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>The rumor is that CMU = no social life.</p>

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<p>yea thats what i heard</p>

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<p>How are your financial aid packages from those places?</p>

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<p>My dad kind of makes too much to qualify for a good amount of aid…</p>

<p>but the cost of the schools would be:</p>

<p>Georgetown-49k</p>

<p>I havent received the financial aid from the other schools yet, but i doubt i’ll be getting too much anyway</p>

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<p>bump, could i get some input on this please</p>

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<p>prestige:

  1. NYU - Stern
  2. CMU - Tepper
  3. Georgetown - McDonough
  4. UVa - Echols
  5. BC - SOM</p>

<p>Job placement:

  1. CMU - Tepper
  2. Georgetown - McDonough
  3. NYU - Stern
  4. UVa - Echols
  5. BC - SOM</p>

<p>Opportunities:

  1. CMU - Tepper
  2. BC - SOM
  3. NYU - Stern
  4. Georgetown - McDonough
  5. UVa - Echols</p>

<p>Campus life:

  1. BC - SOM
  2. NYU - Stern
  3. UVa - Echols
  4. Georgetown - McDonough
  5. CMU - Tepper</p>

<p>Social life:

  1. BC - SOM
  2. NYU - Stern
  3. UVa - Echols
  4. Georgetown - McDonough
  5. CMU - Tepper</p>

<p>Average rank:

  1. NYU - Stern (2.2)
  2. CMU - Tepper (2.8)
  3. BC - SOM (2.8)
  4. Georgetown - McDonough (3.4)
  5. UVa - Echols (3.8)</p>

<p>I laughed myself when i saw this post - you got into exactly the same schools as I did in Schools of Business except UVa!!! lol.
I picked Carnegie Mellon, because of the job opportunities open for us after graduation. NYU is prestigiously good, but I considered the surrounding envrionment… it seems like there will be a party every night… haha
CMU is a good school, just that there is hardly any social life (as many others say), but they shape students to suit what’s happening in the real world.
BC is a good place if you want a social life at its best, because it’s located at Boston! A great city i guess. And of course, campus at Boston is far nicer than NYU or CMU.</p>

<p>I vote for CMU :)</p>

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<p>prestige (I assume you mean within the world of IB):

  1. NYU - Stern
  2. Georgetown - McDonough
  3. CMU - Tepper
  4. BC - CSOM
  5. UVA - Echols</p>

<p>Job placement, again for IB:

  1. NYU- Stern
  2. Georgetown - McDonough
  3. BC- CSOM
  4. CMU- Tepper
  5. UVA - Echols</p>

<p>Opportunities, I assume this means internships:

  1. BC
  2. CMU
  3. Georgetown
  4. NYU
  5. UVA</p>

<p>Campus life (On-Campus):

  1. BC (Off-Campus #2)
  2. UVA
  3. Georgetown (Off-Campus #3)
  4. NYU (Off-Campus #1 by far)
  5. CMU </p>

<p>Social life, I’ll take z4’s list, though how (s)he knows about the social life at all these schools is beyond me:

  1. BC - SOM
  2. NYU - Stern
  3. UVa - Echols
  4. Georgetown - McDonough
  5. CMU - Tepper</p>

<p>Average rank:

  1. NYU - Stern (1.8)
  2. BC - CSOM (1.8)
  3. Georgetown - McDonough (2.4)
  4. UVa - Echols (3.2)
  5. CMU - Tepper (3.4)</p>

<p>Remember, at the end of the day hiring at undergraduate business schools is predominantly regional in nature. You have a list of Northeastern schools so the networks with have similar pull in that region. From my experience as a hiring manager, the closer the school is to the place you want to work, the greater the number of opportunities for jobs. </p>

<p>Please be aware that the in most cases the differences in these categories among your schools is trivial. The average rank is just that, a simple arithmetic average, (clearly CMU suffers in the Campus/Social Life categories, not in the academic/career sections). I would recommend weighting any results to reflect the things that are most important to you and basing the decision on what you want.</p>