Need help picking Boston-Area Universities

I don’t know about Babson, but I went to BU a million years ago (graduated 1990) and they had a fantastic Career Services department then. Helped you prep your resume, prep for interviews, even had employers come in and interview on campus. I’d assume it’s the same or better now. Maybe someone else can chime in on Babson.

I figure that at the very least, boston university has more national name recognition. I plan on going for a master’s eventually in California and probably settling here and I feel like babson will not be as well known. Nobody I spoke with about colleges ( besides my counselor whose job it is to know this stuff) had ever heard of it

@philbegas An idea for where to live might be the Auburndale/West Newton area. By car, It’s 15 minutes from Babson in one direction, 15 minutes from Bentley in another, and 20 minutes from BU and Northeastern in the third. For evenings in Boston, it’s at the far end of the (Green Line) T (last stop, Riverside, of the D line). It is also on the commuter rail line which runs from South Station through Auburndale/West Newton to Wellesley (and beyond actually), which is quicker than the T but has more limited late night hours. And a cab ride if you’re running late isn’t too terribly expensive, though you wouldn’t want to do it too often probably. This is all, of course, if you need to get housing before you know where you’ll end up, which I guess is unlikely. If you end up at Northeastern or BU, you’ll probably want to live in Boston proper. Park Drive area would work for both Northeastern and BU, Allston/Brighton neighborhood would work great for BU.

Any decent B-school will have a career center for its students. They will also have networking events and conferences, again exclusively for their students. Resume building workshops? Mock interviews? You got it! This is one of the selling points of B-schools after all. There are all kinds of statistics that you can get by contacting each school. My son applied this year and we were bombarded with very detailed reports on how many students get how many internships and exact amounts of starting salary by sub-major. Even geographical distributions. They put a lot of emphasis on those reports so it will not be hard to get if you inquire.

I’ll know where I’m going before I find housing. I won’t be moving until July or august 2017. It also depends on where my girlfriend ends up going to grad school. She’s looking at RISD, harvard, and mass art

I see we sent our responses at the same time - but thank you. My counselor said that she thinks BU has a more active alumni network due to being larger and also is a better school to transfer into vs babson being better as a freshman.

I think I’m leaning towards Boston U over Babson to add on to my reach school list with Northeastern. Just seems like transferring into Babson and then going for a finance major might not be the most fun experience, and everything I’ve read indicates that Babson is mostly for the entrepreneurial-minded folks. Babson is also 5k a year more expensive and is slightly harder to get into.

I’m still stuck on Bentley vs Suffolk for back-up schools though. Bentley is undoubtedly a more prestigious school, but I wonder whether that extends over to the left coast. My college counselor thinks I should pick Bentley because I’ll have other back-up schools (Pace, University of Rhode Island, Drexel, Bryant), and their business school is well known. I read a little bit about how Bentley supposedly caters to the more typical business majors like business admin or accounting.

I guess it depends on how safe of a safety you want in Boston. If you’re certain you want to end up in Boston, and your stats aren’t in the Bentley safe zone, then Suffolk is the answer. You do refer to your other state’s safeties, so it seems like you aren’t 100% invested in going to school in Boston. If that’s the case, seems like you would be willing to take a bit of a risk and pick Bentley over Suffolk as your safety.

Bentley has an amazing business program and fantastic placement. Suffolk doesn’t. Its a no-brainer. I’m not sure how much of a safety it is though.

You guys are right. I mean it’s a safety compared to Boston u because it has a 15% higher acceptance rate. I’m going to go with Bentley, thank you guys! I’ll have enough other “real” safety schools. I think my other safety schools are probably better quality than Suffolk anyways

I know that this thread has been inactive for awhile but I had a question. I’m about to be finalizing applications and while looking through credit requirements I noticed that BU requires at least 132 semester units for graduation. That’s around 4-12 more than a lot of the other schools on my list.

Does anybody know if BU is stingy with awarding transfer credit?

As a transfer student, I’m fully aware that I might have 2.5ish years left once I transfer, but I’d rather not apply if it seems like I might have as much as 3 years left. In addition, Questrom school of business requires placement tests to place out of both financial and managerial accounting, and given that I live in CA I wouldn’t even know if I placed out of them until after I commit and begin attending.

When I couple that with the rumors that I’ve heard about BU being really really stingy with aid, it seems like it might not even be worth the application fee.