<p>I'm currently a Finance major at Rutgers. I might also graduate with a minor in Computer Science. However, I want to move to either Florida, Arizona or California. I'm wondering if Rutgers is respected in the business world nationally. Of course, the northeast is very competitive because of the Ivy League schools here and big cities. Does anyone have any insight into this? Salaries, competition, etc. references would be very helpful. Would I fair better in the new states than I would in my home state of New Jersey?</p>
<p>Bumping this up. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Almost everyone outside of New Jersey has heard of Rutgers. Don’t worry about this.</p>
<p>Pop by the career center on your campus, and talk with them about which firms come there to recruit. Maybe your first job out of college will still be in New Jersey, but your second one won’t necessarily have to be.</p>
<p>Don’t worry. The Wall Street Journal recently published a list of the top 25 universities for on-campus recruiting. Rutgers was #21, ahead of Notre Dame and MIT.</p>
<p>I live in New Jersey now but did not grow up here. As a kid in the Midwest I had heard of Rutgers. I didn’t know it was in New Jersey, just somewhere East.</p>
<p>Rutgers is a pretty run-of-the-mill state school. I don’t think it has a good or bad reputation. It just is what it is. It isn’t going to open any doors, but I doubt it is going to close many either. </p>
<p>Is it too late to transfer to a better respected university?</p>
<p>That’s very informative.</p>
<p>Well, to some extent he’s right. People outside the east may know of Rutgers through seeing sports teams, but aren’t going to have particular impressions of it one way or the other. Them’s the breaks. The same thing can be said of UC’s when you move outside California.</p>
<p>I think Rutgers has the weird status of being more respected the farther from NJ you are. I have lived all over and RU has the respect given to good private schools once you get 500 miles away and few are aware that it is a public university. That was probably even more true BEFORE the sports teams became well known.</p>
<p>Disagree. Most people respect Berkeley and UCLA for academics.</p>
<p>Rutgers is not well known here in California. While I would say it’s “respected”, I wouldn’t put it in the category of a “good”/“above average” college, which most perceive of the USNWR top-25 universities. As Informative stated, Rutgers won’t open or close any doors.</p>
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I’m quite frustrated with this perspective. While universities such as the mid-tier UCs and Rutgers aren’t that well known, you tend to have a habit of associating them with completely obscure state schools such as the CUNY/SUNYs and that is just not the case.</p>
<p>Rutgers is a great state school, though not a top tier public school. It’s respected in business, but in elite fields (consulting, PE, hedge fund, IB, etc.), Rutgers would be a few tiers below Ross, Haas, etc.</p>
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<p>Source, please. I have never associated the mid-tier UC’s and Rutgers with CUNY’s/SUNY’s. </p>
<p>Obscurity is in the eye of the beholder. U of Iowa is as “obscure” to those of you living in California as UC-Riverside is to those of us living in Chicago (and so forth).</p>
<p>Thanks for all the replies guys. I actually did hear that the farther from NJ you get, the better the rep.</p>
<p>Rutgers is a good school and I think that it is fairly well respected. Nonetheless, I doubt that any elite firms recruit there, which may or may not matter to you.</p>
<p>A fair number of Wall Street and leading Big Pharma firms recruit there. If by elite you mean crooked firms that put the economy in the crapper. That elite?</p>
<p>I think when most people mention respectable colleges in New Jersey, Princeton takes most of the credit. Obviously, Rutgers is a great college, not in all areas, but what college is? Rutgers Business School in Newark has a great undergraduate Business Program, also they just built a new Biomedical Engineering facility. Good luck with graduate school!</p>
<p>In my business experience, people have heard about Rutgers because of its sports teams, but it does not command respect above that. It’s not dissed or anything, it just doesn’t heavily impress anyone academically.</p>
<p>so weird to see this being posted. i know its late to reply but I wanna put in two cents…</p>
<p>Coming from a girl who was born and raised an hour away from Rutgers… everyone here talks down and it’s a totally back up school for us here. We totally underestimate how big it is for others. I met some people who go there who come from out of state and they really appreciate being there. I mean it may not be Ivy League, but it’s a fairly tough school. No slacking allowed. So far, like said in other replies, it definitely isn’t a school that’s going to open up doors for you… unless you’re a diamond in the rough. But being at Rutgers isn’t going to limit what you can d and any future plans.</p>
<p>Wow, I must put in my two cents too…</p>
<p>I grew up in the DC area and then lived in AZ, CA and overseas for the rest of my 50+ years. My nephew is studying business at Rutgers NB. For me and my colleagues in finance here in CA, Rutgers has an outstanding reputation. For us, Rutgers NB has the reputation of business competency without pretentious elitism. We feel it develops grads with an excellent business background and more importantly a strong work ethic. The kind of folks we like to hire. It has a great national and international reputation that precedes it. I’d stay and finish your degree at Rutgers. I feel it will help you. I am sure that there are alumni associations out here in the West as well.</p>
<p>Interestingly, we rarely hire undergrads from the University of California system because they do not have a true business major until the MBA level. Funny how a lot of folks both inside and outside CA don’t know that. In fact, UC Irvine is in its first year experimenting with a business major. The Cal State system and the private schools, like USC or Stanford, produce business grads at the undergraduate level. Some of the most impressive business grads we’ve met were from the Cal Poly’s (San Luis Obispo and Pomona). Again, strong work ethic without the attitude.</p>