Do employers / graduate schools on the east coast perceive Kelley undergraduate as a top business school? US News and world ranks is highly despite its low admission credentials, how is this so?
Essentially, it is easy to get into IU but harder to get into Kelley. If you are not a direct admit, you must get all B’s or better in every class freshman year in order to ensure admission into Kelley. I don’t live on the east coast so I don’t really know about that.
@irb720 Yes they do. Check out the companies hiring people from Kelley here:
http://kelley.iu.edu/UCSO/Statistics/hiringCompanies/page19657.html
McKinsey and Bain here this month talking to Kelley kids…
Just about every Wall Street firm hired someone from Kelley’s 2016 class based on offers to people I know in Finance.
Kelley’s rep is firmly established in the US.
thank you both, @IUBOOS I was wondering specifically if Kelley grads got into top business/law/other graduate schools, because they don’t report this data.
@irb720 Of course Kelley grads get into top grad schools. Search LinkedIn resumes and you’ll see.
Also check out schools feeding into Harvard’s graduate program
http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/class-profile/Pages/undergraduate-institutions.aspx
Yes, IU is there.
It’s my understanding that top grad schools actually care a lot less about where you did your undergrad work than how well you did it (GPA) and your GMAT/LSAT score. Coming from IU Kelley is great as it’s program is well-known and highly regarded. Coming from an unknown or poorly regarded school might be a disadvantage. This topic is discussed to death all over this forum and elsewhere.
Keep in mind that most people hit the workforce first after a Kelley undergrad degree and then go for their MBA/JD later. The exception would be the 3/2 accounting/finance folks.