<p>Hi all,
I was just wondering if anyone has the complete Undergraduate Finance rankings from USNews and if they could post it.</p>
<p>I'm applying to (so far):</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania - Wharton
New York University - Stern
MIT - Sloan
University of California - Berkeley - Haas
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - Ross
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper
University of Notre Dame - Mendoza
University of Southern California - Marshall</p>
<p>Anywhere else I should consider applying to?</p>
<p>Haha alright then. I have a members account so I will list them below:</p>
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<li>Ohio State</li>
<li>U of Florida</li>
<li>U of Illinois</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>U of Southern California</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Wash U St. Louis</li>
<li>Loyola U of Chicago</li>
<li>Marquette</li>
<li>Seattle</li>
<li>U of Maryland</li>
<li>Loyola of Maryland</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>U of Wisconsin</li>
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<p>I think you should add U of Virginia to your list. Also, I find that Emory comes up on other lists for finance, but not this one, so Emory may be a school to consider as well.</p>
<p>Schools like Notre Dame, Illinois, and Michigan State have pretty good accounting programs, but because they’re so big they can pump out a lot of accountants. There is a need for accountants in the financial world, so all these accountants fresh out of big schools get jobs fairly easily. This causes large schools with good accounting programs to rise to the top. It also seems that business week’s rankings are more favorable to those types of schools than usnews.</p>
<p>It’s a worthless ranking…
God help anyone dumb enough to apply to schools based on these rankings.</p>
<p>Schools absent from your list that you should consider are Georgetown and Cornell AEM. These are on par imo with Stern, ignoring the location advantage.
Boston college also does pretty well.
If you want to work on the east coast, I would not bother with USC or Notre dame. You will be quite disappointed with their placement unless your dream is to work at a big 4 or in operations.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if AEM is Math focused? Like I’m already in junior year and don’t know too much about economics (and the class at our school is really detached and off the hook-ish so I didn’t really want to take it). I have a much stronger background in math and will prlly do better if AEM Finance works well with math.</p>
<p>What exactly is it that you want to do?
Most undergraduate finance programs involve very little in the way of math. If you’re strong in math and enjoy it, you will regret majoring in finance. </p>
<p>If you want to work in finance, you do not need to major in finance. In fact, in most areas, majoring in finance will not even be beneficial. To be perfectly honest, what I’ve learned in my math and econ courses has been much more beneficial on the job than what I’ve learned in my finance courses. </p>
<p>Also, very few people have any sort of relevant background in finance or economics before coming to college. Any econ or finance course you take in high school will be nothing like what you’ll experience in college. This should not be cause for concern.</p>
<p>I know at Penn it would be very difficult to double major in anything, as the double major programs are very selective. That said, if you go to Wharton you will be lined up for fantastic jobs and you will acquire a skill set incomparable to any other. I don’t think you should worry too much about a double major, many finance students are alright with their single major.</p>
<p>If you view being paid 120k+/year to spend 90+ hours a week editing power point presentations a fantastic job, then yes, this is correct. Unfortunately, not everyone appreciates getting yelled at for having a single bullet in a 100+ slide deck a slightly different shade of navy blue than one 30 slides back.</p>
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<p>I don’t know this from personal experience, but I’d doubt your skills developed from Wharton are really that much different from a finance major at say Tepper or Sloan.
Even if they are, it’s at most a head start. After 3 months on the job, even the history majors will have caught up.</p>
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based on what I’ve heard, this is only true at Wharton. Double majoring in Econ + Math for example is not that difficult. I know a few people at Upenn who did the same exact thing. </p>
<p>An important thing to remember is that you can get both quant type positions and ibd positions with a math type major. With finance, you will not get a quant type position and even S&T will be more difficult.
Of course, if you’re set on IBD, research or PE, wharton will provide the greatest chance for success.</p>
<p>@angryelf You seem to know a lot more about this stuff than I do, so I’ll let you give the advice. I was under the impression that Wharton is a step above the rest, I guess it’s not that much better than other top schools. Of course everyone’s ideal job is different, but if you want to work long hours and make big money Wharton prepares you well for Wall Street. I’m not really familiar with double majors at Penn other than the interdisciplinary majors, which are the most selective. I suppose a double major in CAS wouldn’t be that difficult.</p>
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<li><p>If my stats are not uPenn level (i believe they aren’t…), what is the next best college (interms of next highest salary upon graduation)?</p></li>
<li><p>Does anyone have an applied math ranking program ranking?</p></li>
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