<p>I go to SUNY Buffalo and i am interested in studying business but it is not well known like NYU. Is it a waste of time stuying business here? </p>
<p>What can i do to make me stand out of all the other students in my 4 years here?</p>
<p>Any advise will be great.</p>
<p>Thanks
Eric</p>
<p>fo sho yo!</p>
<p>Given that you go to Suny Buffalo, I would say that you MUST major in something like business. </p>
<p>You think business is pointless....guess what will happen if you major in something like philosophy or sociology...career disaster LOL</p>
<p>If you major in accounting at SUNY and get good grades, you could get into a Big 4 firm and go from there</p>
<p>If you don't go to an Ivy, you basically have no career options. Everyone in the U.S. who works in business graduated from the Ivy league. Anyone who doesn't go to the Ivy league might as well kill themselves now.</p>
<p>Not necessarily, there are many other reputable schools that are non-Ivy. It's not where you go, it's who you are, really. You can go to an Ivy and BOMB and end up with a lousy job. Or you can go to a non Ivy, do well, and be successful because you are an excellent businessperson. It's all on you, mate.</p>
<p>90s, I think chanfest22 was being sarcastic...hopefully LOL</p>
<p>nah, i know someone who went to suny buffalo for business and is veryyy successful now. its all what you make of it.</p>
<p>Any major from any school can eventually find their niche. Moreover, The higher the grade point, the better the chance of a good job regardless of major. GPA is king!</p>
<p>However, there are some business majors that will do better in today's market than other types of business major. It will be toughest for majors in general business, management, and marketing ( unless you want sales). On the other hand, accounting majors are in HUGE demand as are majors in actuarial studies. I would have said that computational finance majors would be huge demand,but with the troubles among top banking institutions, I am not sure this is still true.</p>
<p>Majors in finance, and operations research and economics would fall somewhere in the middle between the low and high demand majors. </p>
<p>Bottom Line: I think if you major in a high demand major and graduate with a decent gpa of 3.2 or better, you should have no problem finding a job. </p>
<p>If you graduate with a lower demand major, you will need a much greater GPA overall to get the better jobs.</p>
<p>If you choose a major that is somewhere in between , you should be able to find a good job if you have at least a 3.4+ GPA and preferably higher.</p>
<p>Hope this all helps and doesn't add to the confusion.</p>
<p>Nope, I think you are dead on. Other good majors are education, nursing, some engineering, comp sci, and ag related sciences.</p>
<p>Cool thanks for the info guys. I plan on following the Finance concentration and duel major it with either economics or math. Which would be a better combination, economics or math?</p>
<p>Both economics and mathematics are good as minors with finance. I say minor in the one that you enjoy the most.</p>
<p>I suppose if you held a gun to my head and made me choose one, I'd probably say economics--only because you would do more financial modeling in economics.</p>
<p>Simply going to an ivy won't cut it. You have to go to a top ivy.</p>
<p>don't let people discourage you. you're fine.
and NYU is not an ivy.</p>
<p>just maybe find some internships. and also, you can get your MBA in a better university.</p>
<p>It really all depends on you. Obviously, going to a prestigious business school will give you a great advantage, but its not the end of the world.</p>
<p>I haven't been lucky enough to go to a prestigious school but I do think the business school I go to now is great. It all really depends on you. Stay at that school, think it through, plan it out..see how you can get ahead.</p>
<p>GPA is only king for L33T Wall Street stuff right out of school. It doesn't actually matter to non-elitists or to people who are more than 5 minutes out of school.</p>
<p>how is University of texas, Austin for business under grad??</p>
<p>It's just the opposite. Like someone said, if you don't go to a top school (I won't say Ivy, I'm at Haas and most Ivies can kiss my ass, GO BEARS!!!) you need to take business, engineering or compsci to be competitive. </p>
<p>And most Ivies don't have undergrad biz, so the points moot :-)</p>
<p>I don't think so.
I know a friend who graduated from UMass Amherst and he got a job at PwC right away.</p>