<p>I am am a senior living in New Jersey and would love to major in business. However, I do not know which part of business I want to major in yet. I got into both Kelley and McCombs Business School, but I am undecided in where I want to go. I have received $5,000 a year scholarship from Kelley and none from UT. Which university should I go to?</p>
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<li><p>Depends on what major you intend to do. We can do better breakdowns once you tell us your top 2-3 choices, if you even have any yet.</p></li>
<li><p>Indiana University has a heavy "Integrated Core" system, which rigorously test students in-depth on all the core aspects of business that are normally reserved for major students only. This versatility allows for a huge edge in real life, where often times the work tasks get blurred. I'd compare it to the University of Chicago's core curriculum, but for business students. It really allows you to decide what you're good at and what you want, and during your junior year so you still have time to determine what specific major you want to be.</p></li>
<li><p>Indiana has a SICK grade distribution system.
Grade</a> Distribution Report</p></li>
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<p>Notice how you can see one teacher giving out an average of a 2.4 GPA in a class and another giving out a 3.4 in THE EXACT SAME CLASS. Ahem, ratemyprofessor? The IU website actually tells you who gives out the BETTER GRADES. For anyone who's thinking of gradschool, definitely a viable attraction.</p>
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<li>Check out the bloomington campus :).
YouTube</a> - theu indiana</li>
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<p>McCombs is primarily known for their accounting program and for their honors program--if you were admitted to those two programs, I'd go to Texas (McCombs).</p>
<p>Indiana is well-known for their finance, investment banking, entrepreneurship, general management, consulting (especially at the MBA level), and finance (real estate) programs. The programs in business law is real good--and has the top-ranked professor in the country teaching environmental law, but it is a rarely chosen major. The operations decision-making major isn't too bad, although Purdue probably has the better operations management/decision-making major, along with a better Supply Chain Management and Logistics major. (Not familiar enough with Univ of Texas to say how they rank in these areas). I don't know enough about Marketing to comment, although we get tons of people recruiting at IU-B in this area--so I'm guessing it is good also.</p>
<p>Accounting is probably the weakest program at the business school (and grades the toughest, too).</p>
<p>One last thing--being from NJ, you are probably used to the cold in the winter--but for people coming from the southwest, be aware that 10 degrees can be the norm for long periods in Bloomington, IN. On the other hand, if you plan to be in Austin, TX in the summer, plan to swelter in the heat of 100 degrees for weeks at a time. Both places have their charm, but most individuals will definitely have a preference.</p>