Georgia Tech's Economics Program vs. UGA's Economics Program

[persianlion]

<p>Would it be wiser to go to Tech and do Industrial Engineering or go to UGA and get a BBA in Economics?</p>

[BanjoHitter]

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Even though Ga Tech is ranked higher than Terry in almost everything; Ga Tech’s program for undergraduate in business is only a BSBA with a concentration in such field as accounting, finance, etc. Would you still recommend Tech over Terry if one would go into Finance?

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<p>GT offers a BBA now. UGA spent decades fighting to keep Tech from having an MBA and a BBA, but over time Tech has added both. It only took Tech 7 years to go from no ranking to Top 25 business school. After nearly 100 years, UGA has never reached the Top 25 and is stagnating (while Tech is ascending).</p>

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UGA is the better business school. They have an amazing alumni network which helps graduates find jobs. All of the big four accounting firms in Atlanta recruit from Terry, as well as many other companies with offices in Atlanta, such as Home Depot, Bank of America, Coca Cola, and Suntrust. I’m sorry, but I just don’t see the logic in getting a business degree from a TECH school.

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<p>Your expertise of the subject is evident from your posts.</p>

<p>There are many TECH schools with excellent business programs. See: MIT-Sloan. As far as UGA’s alumni network, Tech has a higher percentage of graduates hired at graduation (65% to 52%) and has a higher starting salary ($57,000 to $48,000). And all of those companies you mentioned come to Atlanta as well. In fact, Home Depot and Bank of America target GT. None of the companies you mentioned target UGA.</p>

<p>Other than your argument that you prefer UGA to GT, what basis do you have for arguing that the schools are even comparable? UGA’s president doesn’t even attempt to make that claim and accepts that UGA competes academically with “Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee” and not with Georgia Tech or Emory.</p>

[hello121]

<p>The UGA Feed Cost Analyzer is a spreadsheet-based decision aid to compare potential feedstuffs on a price per pound of crude protein and energy (total digestible nutrients; TDN). This program consists of a feed library prepopulated with some common feedstuffs, a least cost feedstuff analyzer, and a feedstuffs replacement calculator. Each page contains step by step directions on how to use this decision aid.</p>

[trizz75]

<p>Though I am currently at Boston College, I seriously considered GaTech’s management program. The five year program with an integrated internship sounds fantastic. If it weren’t for the fact that GaTech has a technology / science underlain curriculum, I probably would have gone there. I think its also relative to note that BC has a top twenty ranked business program, and yet I still considered GaTech seriously. Case and point, Atlanta has the most Fortune 500 company headquarters of any city. I also was accepted to UGA, and going there never crossed my mind after being accepted to GaTech</p>

[FutureVpFinance]

<p>hail2011- please lol. As long as the MIT guy was on track to graduate and remembered to wear pants to the interview he would get the job 99.999999% of the time over a UGA grad.</p>

<p>“I actually wouldn’t get a degree in business from MIT”
I almost died on that one lmao</p>

[msk247]

<p>So I looked at this thread, because I thought it might be helpful, but all I learned were the objective benefits of eating shrimp at Red Lobster over Outback Steakhouse. Thank you hai2011, clearly cheddar biscuits are going to be the deciding factor in where to go to college.</p>

[BanjoHitter]

<p>If you ignore the talk about shrimp, there are some useful tidbits in here, especially post </p>

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[Ijustwantname]

Ya you’re trash for using the R-word. People have a genuine question you don’t have to get your panties in a twist.