<p>I was accepted to UR and got some scholarship, which was great!! However, I really want to major in business. I was directly admitted to Kelley Business School at Indiana University at Bloomington. I live in Indiana, so of course people around me just tell me to go to IU.I think it's a Indiana thing though...I don't know if I should listen to people from Indiana. Kelley school is pretty good, but in general IU ranks lower than UR. I don't know if it's better for me to go to IU or UR if I wanna do business. Also, I'm planning on going to graduate school afterwards. I don't know if that plays any role in my decision.</p>
<p>Please please please help me....I'm about to blow up my brain on trying to make decision.</p>
<p>You need to consider the difference, if any, in cost. Then you need to think about where you want to go to school. Both are good schools. If you’re planning on living in Indiana, there may - repeat, may - be some advantage to the IU network. </p>
<p>Then you need to look up the business major at UR and see if that is what you want. At UR, you have a tremendous amount of academic freedom. You will not be in a business school for undergrad. (See the thread Rochester vs Hamilton vs CMU and look at TSocash’s long comment; he’s an admissions rep at UR and does a good job of describing the Rochester Curriculum.) </p>
<p>My personal perspective is that I’m not a fan of undergrad business schools. I’m familiar with the curricula at a number of them and find them both limiting and somewhat misleading about the reality of work. I do prefer the ones that emphasize team approaches over “traditional” business. If you need an MBA or want one, an undergrad business degree is not necessary. And my experience in the business world is that you learn the ways of the world in the world, not in class. That is a big reason why so many MBA programs want people who’ve worked for a few years minimum after undergrad.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for the info!!!</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t want to live in Indiana in the future. I’m considering IU just because its business program ranks so high, in entrepreneur, management an marketing. Those are the areas I’m interested in. For me, I’m not thinking about business like finance people, bankers, or people work on Wall Street. I’m more thinking about being a manager, or a salesperson. I did hear people say that it’s better to attain a degree in a more specific area–business is too broad. Anybody with any undergraduate degree can do business if they choose (or even not choose) to get an MBA. But I also hear people say it’s easier to go from broad major to a more specific major. I mean I totally see the point, but I just don’t know what I want to major in other than business!!! I got accepted to UC Davis, and I was considering about food science or viticulture & enology, so in the future I can do business in food industry. Again, some people warned me that it would be harder to major in agriculture then master in the business world. I don’t know…For UR, I know it’s a more science heavily related school, and to be honest I’m not a huge fan of science. I mean I’m good at science, and I took AP BIO, AP PHYSICS B, BC CALCULUS, and they were all good. I just don’t see myself with science since I’m more an outgoing person. I love talking to people. I’m creative and I don’t like so many rules. I thought maybe marketing would be a good major for me to do…that’s why I want to major in business…</p>
<p>Do you have further suggestion?</p>
<p>Thanks!!!</p>
<p>The largest majors at UR aren’t science. </p>
<p>If you’re at all unsure, you should consider a more general program than undergrad business.</p>
<p>Well…the thing is I know I want to do business…I just don’t know what’s the best way to approach it. Like you mentioned earlier, I could just do MBA and study something else undergrad</p>
<p>um well Simon is pretty new…and its undergrad and grad program ranking are not so different. Simon Business School (Rochester) is ranked 37th and Kelley- 23th. Rochester is pretty small compared to Indiana. Even if you change your major someday in college, you’ll have more opportunity in Indiana. But, if you want to do a lot of research as an undergrad then go to Rochester.</p>