<p>I am a student seeking an undergrad major in business management. My number one choice at the moment would be MIT Sloan and Wharton as #2. Does MIT have a noticable prestige in business outside of the college life? Out of the several financial consultants and businessmen I have come across, they have all had the preconcieved notion of MIT being a Science/engineering school and that alone. They pretty much had no knowledge or recognition of MIT's supposed top-notch education in business management.</p>
<p>MY MAIN QUESTION IS....
Does MIT truly have the name or label of prestige(maybe not that of Wharton, but of a genuine significance) which should be weighed in consideration to college acceptances/applications?</p>
<p>Even MIT's buisness school is heavily science/engineering. I think half of their class has an engineering background while Wharton only has about 20% of its class from engineering.</p>
<p>Well, Aurelius, what do you expect? MIT is MIT. So of course a lot of scientists and engineers are going to be attracted there, even for the MBA. </p>
<p>Back to the OP, I think there is little dispute that Wharton has better business 'branding' than MIT or Sloan. So if you get into Wharton and you know you want to be a generalist businessmen or investment banker (as opposed to, say, tech management), then maybe you should go to Wharton. But I would say that other than Wharton, where else are you going to go that has an undergrad business school that has the brand that Sloan has? </p>
<p>Now of course it is true that you don't really need an undergrad business degree to have a business career. Most successful executives don't have an undergrad business degree. So clearly you can consider schools that don't have business undergrad programs but are still strongly branded, like (of course) Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, etc.</p>
<p>No <em>we're</em> not. YOU are talking about the BBA. But others here are not. Aurelius in particular was talking about the MBA. I am simply responding to his post. </p>
<p>When Aurelius said "Even MIT's buisness school is heavily science/engineering. I think half of their class has an engineering background while Wharton only has about 20% of its class from engineering", that is a direct reference to the Sloan MBA program. After all, ask yourself, how exactly can the Sloan BS program have half of their class have an engineering background?</p>
<p>Well, a good number of Sloan students are double-majors with a technical field, although I don't think the actual numbers are available.</p>
<p>But more to the point, MIT doesn't admit by intended major, so anyone who wants to be in Sloan has to get into MIT first, and has to get through MIT's General Institute Requirements (which include physics, calculus, biology, chemistry, and restricted electives in science and technology). So even if an applicant is really just interested in business, he or she has to have a strong technical background to get into MIT, and has to like science enough to get through 8 semesters of MIT-level science.</p>