Huge decision...best college for me?!?

<p>I go to a community college in new york and have a 3.3 gpa and trying to raise it to 3.6-3.7 when i get my associates degree. I want to go to a college either in new york or florida that is best for buisness but at the same time best college experience.</p>

<p>choices but open to other schools if its better:</p>

<p>New York University
Baruch College
Suny Binghampton
University of Florida
Florida State University
University of Tampa</p>

<p>Out of those school which one would you go to or whats your top 3 from these choices?
(I want the best buisness school with the best college experience)</p>

<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>

<p>mini: NYU has really good transfer agreements with community colleges and a lot of scholarship money available for this. OP would probably not qualify for much with 3.3, but the GPA is raised might actually qualify. When we send kids from our community college, many of them end up at NYU.</p>

<p>Many of them end up at Baruch.</p>

<p>Some end up at Stony Brook.</p>

<p>Some end up at Old Westbury.</p>

<p>Some go to local privates (Hofstra, Adelphia are very close by to our school.)</p>

<p>Some end of at Malloy, St. Joseph’s, St. John’s (good for most vocational training.)</p>

<p>Few choose Binghamton for business. If you want a SUNY university Albany is better for business, and not Stony Brook has opened a new business building on recently acquired land.</p>

<p>The beauty of NYU and Baruch is that jobs, internships, etc. are in Manhattan so you may start making really useful connections right away.</p>

<p>Now that is a surprise to me. I have seen generous NYU packages but I don’t know of any transfers who applied with aid needs. Transfers often have a rough time in getting fin aid, even from some of the more generous schools that guarantee to meet 100% of need for freshman class applicants,as that policy does not often hold for transfers. </p>

<p>Fairfield U in CT also has an excellent Accounting program. How generous they are to transfers, I don’t know.</p>

<p>Nth has money specifically for cc students not available for transfers. We have sent a number of kids that way from Nassau where I teach.</p>

<p>“Few choose Binghamton for business.”
If that’s the case from that community college so be it, but recognize there is likely a big proximity effect. Given that Binghamton SOM freshman matriculants have SATs in the 1300-1400 range, perhaps also fewer of them are admitted.</p>

<p>“If you want a SUNY university Albany is better for business,…”</p>

<p>Not by any measure I’m familiar with. IMO Binghamton is more highly regarded for business, and is higher 'ranked" than Baruch too. [Best</a> College Business Programs - Businessweek](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>

<p>This may not have been the case in “my day”, when I don’t recall them even having a business school, but evidently things change.</p>

<p>My understanding is Binghamton is well recruited by the big accounting firms. For one.</p>

<p>(unable to edit above- turns out Baruch was not ranked)</p>

<p>Just for the record - my husband recruits from Binghamton for his very highly regarded financial services firm.</p>