<p>It’s not a business school. It’s Commerce. </p>
<p>You’re required to complete a two-year pre-Comm programme, and you have to apply to the Comm school at the end of your second year.</p>
<p>The thing that sets the Comm school apart from other business schools, even the Ivies, is the ICE programme (the Integrated Core Experience), a 12-credit course that has you work with a Fortune 500 company, and one that will forge very tight teamwork with your appointed block and will probably demand lots of all-nighters in addition to integrating basic fundamental courses into a course that every student must take</p>
<p>Now though I have many comm school friends (who are often the exception to the rule), I do not have the greatest respect for most other comm school students. Nevertheless, in general they are generally innovative, creative, influential student leaders if somewhat misguided by their pursuit of income over the pursuit of intellectual knowledge. I do believe that science and engineering is more challenging than the Comm school, but it’s a commerce school. It’s not a business school. I don’t think Wharton has anything even remotely close to ICE. From what I gather, ICE has you apply the very theoretical to a very “real world” proposal that you must submit at the end of your first semester in the Comm School. Employers like this. </p>
<p>My friend in the Comm School was guaranteed a job by a major investment bank (Morgan Stanley) a year and a half before finishing school (as a third year). That’s how rigourous the programme is.</p>