<p>does anyone know enough about business honors at the university of texas to compare the two? I would be paying about 5k per year vs 50k per year . I am majoring in business at ut or econ at nw.</p>
<p>I didn't find out about UT's Business school until this past summer when I was doing research there, but apparently it's really good. If I recall correctly, U.S. News has had it's undergraduate business programs in the top 10 for sometime now. Business week, however, has it as number 13, so there is a slight discrepancy.</p>
<p>As much as I love NU and Chicago and the prime lakeside real estate (economics is also great there too!), I don't think think I could justify spending the extra 45k per year.</p>
<p><a href="http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/07rankings/index.asp%5B/url%5D">http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/07rankings/index.asp</a>
<a href="http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/facts/rankings.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/facts/rankings.asp</a>
<a href="http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/about/reputation.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/about/reputation.asp</a></p>
<p>If you're sure you're gonna do business, I think you should go to UT. McCombs is great, and being in honors is icing on the cake. Factoring in the $45k difference, and the choice becomes obvious. Austin is also a GREAT college town, so don't worry about missing out on Chicago.</p>
<p>I agree with Arti, if you are looking for some consensus of opinion. UT is a great school, Austin is a cool town, honors at McCombs makes it a slam dunk. Sounds like a no-brainer to me.</p>
<p>I'm a Freshman econ major at NU and last year I picked NU over the UT Honors Program. What it boiled down to for me is that Northwestern is simply a better school. Yes, UT Honors is well-respected, but NU Econ is 9th in teh country. But perhaps more importantly, the average student at Northwestern is lightyears ahead of the average student at UT. Going to Northwestern puts you into a great envrionment of talented, interesting, and intelligent students. Whereas at UT the average person on the street will be less intelligent and undoubtedly worked less hard than you did during the high school years. Northwestern has great opportunities because it is so close to a GREAT city in Chicago and because it is regarded as one of the best OVERALL schools in the country.</p>
<p>did you have the same cost situation as the OP?</p>
<p>Luckily, I could afford to attend NU w/o serious economic repercussions. I don't live in Texas, so the money would have been an even smaller factor. If money is a dealbreaker, then so be it. I wouldn't judge anyone for making a decision based on finances. It's unfortunate that it can become a factor, but you have to do what you ahve to do.
So to be fair, I can't make that money call. I will say that it's inherently unfair to not acknowledge that NU is far and away better than UT.</p>
<p>While I definitely agree with CerebralAssassin's assertion that NU is a better school overall (and really, there is no debate), I believe that his argument that the average NU student is lightyears ahead of the average student at UT is an exaggeration. </p>
<p>Yes, on the whole, UT's student body is not as distinguished as Northwestern's. That's simply because it is a state school that guarantees admission to any Texas student in the top 10% of his graduating class. But it would be pompous to claim that UT students do not work as hard as you, especially those in the honors programs. I personally know many people who attend UT whom I consider very intelligent--people who have gone on to the Ivys for graduate school (including a friend who now attends Harvard Medical School) and have gotten really great jobs (Directly after graduating from UT, my cousin got an amazing job at Sun Microsystems in Santa Clara that pays really well).</p>
<p>So yes, Northwestern and its students are amazing. There is no doubt about that. But you can't write off other students simply because they attend a lower-ranked institution. I'm definitely sure that no matter where you go, you'll find a large group of intelligent students with amazing prospects for the future.</p>