<p>Any of the top 40 universities and colleges (top 10 or so LACs, top 3 or 4 state universities and top 20 private universities) will have great placement into exclusive companies like the major MCs and IBs. Obviously, top BBA programs like Haas, Ross, Sloan and Wharton will place students more successfully than most other programs or most other universities, but then again, the competition is greater and you have to major in Business, which I don't particularly encourage at the undergraduate level.</p>
<p>Im surpised Berkeley isnt represented at all, yet Michigan and Virginia are. Is there some bias. Berkeley's Haas school is consistantly rated in the top 3.</p>
<p>Rankings aren't everything.</p>
<p>Yes but what makes mich and virginia so sought after but Berkeley not at all</p>
<p>Consulting firms hire from UCB, if you were in college you would know that.</p>
<p>I am in college and I know that firms hire from Berkeley, but what I dont understand is why similiar schools like Michigan and Virginia are core schools for most firms, yet Berkeley is hardly on any of them.</p>
<p>maybe virginia and michigan kids fit in a "stereotype" that make them better consultants, while berkeley kids make better scientists?</p>
<p>I'd say it's more a east coast bias than anything else.</p>
<p>Try to go Ivy, and MIT and such. Those are basically most of the schools that get recruited by consulting firms, simply because there aren't many positions available in the industry.</p>
<p>I agree with Pre-medwannabe. Mot Management Consulting firms recruit heavily at select few campuses. I'd say the top 30 research universities and the top 15 LACs.</p>
<p>bump,</p>
<p>GWU</p>
<p>I have heard from a good source that some schools are not recruited as much because their grads tend not to want to move to NYC. This might very well apply to UCB.</p>
<p>But most ibanks, management consulting, etc firms always have an office in New York, for east coast, and San Francisco on the west. San Francisco is probably second as the financial capital of the US.</p>
<p>I think they make you swear on a stack of bibles that you want to work in NYC someday. Most firms require some time at the head office to move up.</p>
<p>San Francisco is not second to NYC as financial capital (may be only for somebody who lives in SF). Chicago for sure and Boston arguably are ahead of SF in that regard.</p>
<p>boston is far from being a large financial market. It would be nyc, chicago and toronto for the top 3</p>
<p>Isn't Charlotte the second biggest financial city?</p>
<p>Charlotte is the home of Bank of America and Wachovia Bank, so it is a large commercial banking center. But in terms of investment banking, I think NYC, Chicago, Boston, SF and Miami are the top 5 in the US.</p>
<p>I think Dallas and Atlanta would be over Boston and Miami, but then that's my opinion.</p>
<p>Boston is growing, houston has a greater presence and dallas who knows</p>