Is Wake a target school?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Wake Forest University
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<p>I am interested in studying either finance or accounting, and I was wondering if Wake is considered a target school for investment banks. How do employers in the banking industry view Calloway? Is it considered on par with schools like UMich, Villanova, BC, Northwestern, etc?</p>

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<p>It’s certainly known in the financial industry (especially accounting, where it’s one of the top undergrad feeder programs).</p>

<p>I’d say it’s on-par with Nova and BC in reputation, behind Northwestern and UMich. But this is just kind of a guess. I have no hard numbers or stats to back this up.</p>

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<p>I recall reading that Calloway has the highest pass rate in the nation on the CPA exam. I’ll try to find the link.</p>

<p><a href=“http://business.wfu.edu/newsDetail.aspx?id=855[/url]”>http://business.wfu.edu/newsDetail.aspx?id=855&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Wake’s finance and accounting programs are academically rigorous and will well prepare you for jobs in those fields. All of those schools you mentioned are great business schools and I would venture to say that they are all somewhat similar with placement. I can speak from experience, though, that Wake grads get great business jobs (or tend to). The alumni network tends to help in this sense, as well – since Wake is a small school its graduate network is much more close-knit.</p>

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<p>Thank you guys very much</p>

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<p>To add on: if you are in the accounting program, you are essentially guaranteed a job somewhere with at least a half-decent GPA. And they find you jobs for you.</p>

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<p>I have definitely heard great things about all of the majors in the business school. Do you know anything about Wake’s finance program? Or would you recommend just going with accounting?</p>

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<p>Depends what you like more. Accounting is 5 years and much more structured than finance. It also requires a 3 month internship from Jan-March your Senior year (4th year). But it does basically guarantee you a job, which finance doesn’t necessarily do, though both are good programs.</p>

<p>Someone else who is actually in the biz school could give you more info.</p>

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<p>Go with what you like the best!</p>

<p>If you like both finance and accounting, you can try out the FINM program, which is basically a combination of the two (it is also a five year program).</p>