I cannot think of a major comprehensive university that does not offer BA/BS in Business, Nursing or Early Education. I guess there are some out there.
LAC undergrad…University for grad school.
LAC small more intimate and focused on your first four years of college.
LAC’s do not have med schools, law schools etc…it’s all about you as an undergrad.
unless you need a football stadium full of 1000,000+ fans in college. look at an LAC!
@LakeWashington: I may have misunderstood the types of universities you are referring to, but Harvard, as an example of a highly rated “large research institution” (#17), offers undergraduate degrees in none of those fields.
you can check out this website and even buy the book.
http://www.ctcl.org/
there are many more LAC’s but they focus on an interesting group.
But for business, trying to masters, I should go to University? I don’t wanna go to a really small college or it will seem like hs all over again. Nor do I wanna go to a crowded as heck college. Also, wouldn’t big name universities be better for your job resume than small less known LACS? And I also hate how LACS are located and no man’s land! I don’t wanna drive hours to find civilization 
Liberal arts colleges, at least the higher ranked ones, do not offer degrees in business.
“But for business, trying to Masters, I should go to a university?” (#24)
It depends on which part of the sentence is emphasized.
“For business [as a major] . . . I should go to a university?”
Simply choose from any college or university that offers a business major.
"Trying to master’s [MBA], I should go to a university?
Relatively few students in highly regarded MBA programs have majored in business as an undergraduate. LAC students with various majors have long had success – probably even particular success – gaining admission to these programs.
Here are the percent of students who majored in business and are full time students at highly regarded MBA programs. I used the US News’ MBA rankings as a base of which are highly regarded. If any poster is wondering why I omitted schools like UT Austin, it is because they did not publish undergraduate majors in the full time MBA class profile. Based on these numbers @merc81 it hardly seems that relatively few students in the best MBA programs majored in business as an undergraduate.
-Stanford: [13%[/url]
-Harvard: [url=<a href=“http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/class-profile/Pages/default.aspx%5D45%%5B/url”>http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/class-profile/Pages/default.aspx]45%[/url] (note that Harvard does not distinguish between business and economics majors in its published class profile)
-UPenn Wharton: [url=<a href=“http://mba.wharton.upenn.edu/admissions/class-profile/%5D29%%5B/url”>http://mba.wharton.upenn.edu/admissions/class-profile/]29%[/url]
-UChicago Booth: [url=<a href=“http://www.chicagobooth.edu/programs/full-time#simple2%5DLooks”>http://www.chicagobooth.edu/programs/full-time#simple2]Looks to be at least 35%](MBA Entering Class Profile | Stanford Graduate School of Business)
-MIT Sloan: [21%[/url]
-Northwestern University - Kellogg: [url=<a href=“http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/full-time-mba/admissions/class-profile.aspx%5D48%”>http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/full-time-mba/admissions/class-profile.aspx]48% (does not distinguish between economics and business majors)](http://mitsloan.mit.edu/mba/admissions/class-profile2/)
-UC Berkeley Haas: [26%[/url]
-Columbia University: [url=<a href=“https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/programs/mba/admissions/class-profile%5D34%%5B/url”>https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/programs/mba/admissions/class-profile]34%[/url]
-Dartmouth College - Tuck School: [url=<a href=“https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/uploads/recruiting/2016.pdf%5D24%%5B/url”>https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/uploads/recruiting/2016.pdf]24%[/url]
-University of Virginia Darden: [url=<a href=“http://www.darden.virginia.edu/mba/community/class-profile/%5D35%%5B/url”>http://www.darden.virginia.edu/mba/community/class-profile/]35%[/url]
-New York University Stern: [url=<a href=“http://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/full-time-mba/students/class-profile%5D24%%5B/url”>http://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/full-time-mba/students/class-profile]24%[/url]
-University of Michigan Ross: [url=<a href=“https://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/full-time-mba/class-profile”>https://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/full-time-mba/class-profile</a>] 24%](Class Profile | Full-Time MBA | Berkeley Haas)
-Duke University Fuqua: [url=<a href=“http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/daytime-mba/student-life/class-statistics/%5D29%%5B/url”>http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/daytime-mba/student-life/class-statistics/]29%[/url]
-Yale University: [url=<a href=“http://som.yale.edu/our-programs/mba/admissions/class-profile%5D24.8%%5B/url”>http://som.yale.edu/our-programs/mba/admissions/class-profile]24.8%[/url]
-UCLA Anderson: [url=<a href=“http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/degrees/mba-program/admissions/class-profile%5D22%%5B/url”>http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/degrees/mba-program/admissions/class-profile]22%[/url]
-Cornell University Johnson: [url=<a href=“https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/For-Recruiters/Resources/Class-Profiles%5D33%%5B/url”>https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/For-Recruiters/Resources/Class-Profiles]33%[/url]
-Wash U St. Louis Olin: [url=<a href=“http://www.olin.wustl.edu/EN-US/academic-programs/full-time-MBA/admissions/Pages/class-profiles.aspx%5D35%%5B/url”>http://www.olin.wustl.edu/EN-US/academic-programs/full-time-MBA/admissions/Pages/class-profiles.aspx]35%[/url] (does not separate business from economics)
-Carnegie Mellon University Tepper: [url=<a href=“http://tepper.cmu.edu/recruiters-and-companies/recruit-at-tepper-school/mba/full-time-employment-statistics/class-profiles%5D20%%5B/url”>http://tepper.cmu.edu/recruiters-and-companies/recruit-at-tepper-school/mba/full-time-employment-statistics/class-profiles]20%[/url]
-Indiana University Kelley: [url=<a href=“http://kelley.iu.edu/MBA/Admissions/ClassProfile/page38380.html%5D32%%5B/url”>http://kelley.iu.edu/MBA/Admissions/ClassProfile/page38380.html]32%[/url]
-University of Washington Foster: [url=<a href=“http://foster.uw.edu/academics/degree-programs/full-time-mba/about-full-time-mba/class-profile/%5D28%%5B/url”>http://foster.uw.edu/academics/degree-programs/full-time-mba/about-full-time-mba/class-profile/]28%[/url]
-Georgetown University: [url=<a href=“http://msb.georgetown.edu/sites/default/files/FT16%20Admissions%20Profile.pdf%5D27%%5B/url”>http://msb.georgetown.edu/sites/default/files/FT16%20Admissions%20Profile.pdf]27%[/url]
-University of Southern California Marshall: [url=<a href=“https://www.marshall.usc.edu/mba/admissions/profile%5D23%%5B/url”>https://www.marshall.usc.edu/mba/admissions/profile]23%[/url]
“It hardly seems that relatively few students in the best MBA programs majored in business as an undergraduate.” (#27)
This suggests relatively few business majors in relation to a master’s in business. Graduate programs in fields such as English, physics or math have a much higher correspondence between undergraduate major and the graduate degree being pursued. You have not even established that the most popular undergraduate major, among the many majors for the students at some of these MBA programs, is business – in contrast to economics – @whenwhen.
@jimmylieu173 I’ve attended both a small liberal arts college and transferred to a 26,000 person research university. There are pros and cons to each. Keep in mind that the best LACs do not feel like a glorified high school simply because they offer far far more resources than almost every high school in the country (I can’t speak for the ultra wealthy boarding schools), the students in them were almost all outstanding students in high school, and 20 year olds are much more mature than 15 year olds. There are plenty of outstanding LACs that are not located in rural areas. For instance, Occidental College is located in a pretty nice suburb of LA with plenty to do around campus. There are many more schools like it.
That being said, after a couple of years, liberal arts colleges can feel stifling. I’ve heard this from current juniors and seniors at a variety of LACs, and based on my experiences, it’s not an inaccurate complaint.
The great thing about American higher education is that we offer a variety of options and if you choose to take advantage of the resources which most good schools have in droves, you can be quite successful.