Hi! I am currently deciding between Umich Ross and USC Moore for business. I am from Michigan, near Ann Arbor, so I have a lot of info on Ross (I also have family at Umich, parents alumni, cousin in Ross currently), but I do not know a ton about USC Moore. I know you can find stats online, but I am curious to hear opinions from those of you who either are in Moore, or know someone in Moore. How has their experience been and how does successful does Moore seem in providing job opportunities? Thanks!
@pbmcdoug Are you direct admit to Ross? What are you planning to major in? What type of career or job are you looking to get when you graduate? Where do you want to live after you graduate from college. Were you a direct admit to the SCHC?
In other posts, you mentioned that the COA for UMich and USC were about the same. Therefore, I would focus on which school is the best fit for you and will give you the best chance to succeed. If you do well in school and actively pursue internship opportunities and relationships with your professors, you should be fine at either school.
From a personal standpoint, my son got a supply chain internship with a fortune 500 company through a USC job fair as a sophomore, a corporate finance internship with a fortune 500 company his junior year through a family connection and accepted an investment banking job that was introduced through a USC professor. In addition, he had interviews with top management consulting firms through family and USC connections.
For career paths such as management consulting or financial management programs at some fortune 500 companies, UMich Ross will be an advantage since USC is not a target college for them to recruit at. You can still get an interview and a job from them, but you will need a connection from the outside and a strong resume to get you in the door.
That being said, my son’s friends in Moore accepted jobs at companies such as Bank of America, Deloitte, GE, McKinsey, Michelin, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Textron, Wells Fargo and VISA.
It depends on your intended career path. Moore will be on par with Ross in most industries (commercial banking, accounting, insurance, Fortune 500 HQ), but it will be significantly harder to get into top-tier investment banking or strategy consulting and slightly harder to get into management consulting (i.e. Accenture, IBM, Deloitte). The school is actively trying to change this with the Finance Scholars and other selective programs. I’m not clear on their performance- that would be worth exploring with Moore staff.
The biggest difference will be in the geographic location of jobs and internships. Michigan directly feeds Detroit, Chicago, and to a lesser degree New York, San Francisco, DC, Boston, etc, while USC feeds Charlotte, Atlanta, DC, and to a lesser extent the same other cities. The best representation of the school’s collective influence is in the size of its alumni networks. You can probably find this information on the respective alumni sites.
Michigan has the benefit of being a target school for many firms, so you will undoubtedly get exposure. The challenge will be standing out from the crowd. Given the strength of Moore (and particularly the Honors College) relative to most other departments at USC, it will likely be easier to get big leadership positions and undergraduate research funding and accommodate study abroad experience if you go to USC. This will go a big way in making you an attractive candidate when recruiting.
I’ve read your posts and as a mom I think that you should go to Michigan…
but I also have a son at USC not in Moore and another, DD, that will most likely be attending USC and I think the business school at USC is top notch! She has already been accepted to the Honors College and will be majoring in International Business and Global Supply Chain Management. She is a NMF and with the scholarships that the state provides she will get pretty close to a full ride. My son wanted to transfer into business and will not be able to do that because it is so competitive. You have to have a 3.0 to transfer but most have a 3.5 or higher. We thought it would be easy but it is not.
I don’t have any data but here is a few things that I do know about students in Moore:
- My son sublet from two guys this past summer both Global Supply Chain majors with multiple job offers. One went to Chattanooga and the other went to Charlotte but I can’t remember the companies.
- Attended an Honors College session, the senior student had already been offered a job in asset management consulting with IBM in Dallas which she was going to accept if she did not make finalist for a Fulbright Scholarship.
- I am a high school teacher. A student that I taught for two years in high school is a finance major. She is going to graduate school at USC in the Public Health program. Her boyfriend is going to grad school somewhere else. I wish I knew where…I’m sure it’s good because he is the student body President.
- My daughter met a recent graduate at another event that works for BMW.
So, this isn’t data…but students in Moore do well!
@cdluvsvt Thanks from one mom to another. Good insight. Weighing USC and some others, none of which would be considered “higher ranked” in business than Moore. Far away from home however!
You really need to explore what you know about the majors offered in each of the programs. Global supply management is a very specific major. Are there others that would interest you if it doesn’t work out? How easy it is to transfer or change the major? What are your interests in the other majors? As much as I appreciate parents and students sharing info about their experiences with specific programs (I have asked for info too!), they should all come with an “individual results may vary” disclaimer, especially with respect to internships and job prospects. The school should be providing those statistics by industry.