<p>How are you fixed for money? (Because if you aren’t, I’d automatically take NYU off the list - you won’t get any merit aid, and to say that the need-based aid for transfers is likely to stingy is perhaps an understatement. You are unlikely to get in in any case.) </p>
<p>You can get a really fine education at Baruch. It will be an untraditional college experience.</p>
<h1>In America’s Best Colleges 2010, Baruch was ranked #6 public, and 36th Master’s University in by U.S. News & World Report.[70]</h1>
<h1>Baruch tied at #2 with Harvard University[8] for the “Number of Graduates in 100 Most Influential People in Accounting Worldwide.” and ranked #1 nationwide for people with Advanced Degrees who pass the CPA exam.</h1>
<h1>Baruch’s MBA Program topped US News & World Report’s 2010 M.B.A.s With Most Financial Value at Graduation ranking.[71]</h1>
<h1>The Undergraduate business programs were ranked #2 in New York-New Jersey area, and #33 nationally. (U.S. News & World Report, “America’s Top Colleges 2009”)</h1>
<h1>In October 2009, Baruch’s MS program in Financial Engineering was ranked among the top ten in North America by QuantNetwork[72]</h1>
<h1>For 9 years, Baruch has topped the list of the Most ethnically-diverse institutions of higher education in the United States (U.S. News & World Report, “America’s Top Colleges 2008”)</h1>
<h1>Baruch is among the Top 10% of U.S. colleges according to The Princeton Review, which selected the College for inclusion in “The Best 368 Colleges: 2009 Edition.” It is also labeled as one of the nation’s best value undergraduate institutions in 2008, and in 2009 “Best Graduate Schools” and “Best Business Schools” listings.[73]</h1>
<h1>Baruch’s Part-Time MBA is ranked #17 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report (“America’s Best Graduate Schools 2007”), making it #2 in New York City. The Full-Time MBA was ranked in the Top 3 of New York programs. Both were the only ranked public programs in New York State.</h1>
<h1>The 2006 edition of the Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive Business School Survey ranked Baruch 50th among the nation’s top 50 regional undergraduate business colleges.</h1>
<h1>A joint survey by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review ranked Baruch #17 out of the top 25 undergraduate entrepreneurial colleges in the nation in 2010.</h1>
<h1>Baruch’s MBA program ranks among the Aspen Institute’s Global 100 list of colleges and universities included in its Center for Business Education’s Beyond Grey Pinstripes 2007 MBA survey, a biennial survey and alternative ranking of business schools that are driving discussions of social and environmental issues into the core curriculum and addressing these topics in terms of mainstream business decision-making.</h1>
<h1>In the 24th Annual Survey of Accounting Professors in the U.S., conducted by the Public Accounting Report (2005), Baruch’s undergraduate accounting program ranked #15; Baruch’s graduate accounting program was #22.</h1>
<h1>Public Accounting Report’s Annual Survey of accounting professors ranked Baruch’s undergraduate and graduate accounting programs among the best in the country in its 2008 rankings, at 20th and 22nd respectively and Baruch’s doctoral program in Accounting was listed in the “Honorable Mention” category.</h1>