<p>I will eventually go for my MBA. Which school will be the right choice??</p>
<p>Well, since you put it that, way, I would have to say Northwestern.</p>
<p>Go To Northwestern You Idiot!!!!! Over Gwu!</p>
<p>oneblzglory--it's not GWU its Wash U. in St. louis!! Now where??</p>
<p>Northwestern</p>
<p>Please give me a reason!! Why NU? Isn't Wash. U. in St. Louis more difficult to get in to?</p>
<p>and USC is suppose to have an awesome undergraduate biz school??</p>
<p>You haven't given us any details. What do you want to major in? What do you want to do when you graduate? What are your hobbies? What kind of atmopshere do you like? How are we supposed to give you any advice if you just list thenames of three schools? Academically, Northwestern is the best of the three. But beyond that, we have no way of giving you real advice.</p>
<p>Thanks, Alexandre-I want to go to the best school academically. I eventually want biz, but not sure what specialty yet. I don't like competitive, cut throat, but certainly could do it if i had to. Academically speaking, it seems as if Wash U. is a more difficult school to get in to and the ratings put USC as an up and coming school with a great biz program. Any thoughts??</p>
<p>USC's Business program is not up and coming. It is a good but not great program. </p>
<p>Academically, Northwestern is the best of the three, no and, if or buts about it. And so what if Washington University is harder to get into? Selectivity and quality are not related. If you want selectivity, go for Wash U, if you want the best overall university, go for Northwestern. That would be my 2 cents.</p>
<p>Alexandre--how do you know that USC is not "up and coming?" you speak so authoritatively!! Where do you get your info?</p>
<p>I wonder if at this level where all the schools are good if the choice is a matter of "fit" - academics, reputation, grad school possibilities,etc. maybe ought to be discounted- how about picking the place which offers the most fun! A solid student at a solid institution ought to fare well regardless of the choice.</p>
<p>It's quite easy to see that USC's business program is not up-and-coming: it's already established! USC is a very respected school and a lot of bright students choose to go there, but for it to be up-and-coming, which implies going up in rank, it would have to compete with the likes of Yale, Carnegie Mellon, UVa, NYU, etc. It's not going to pass these schools any time soon.</p>
<p>USC has not gone up the ranks in recent years. Up and coming means that it is climbing the ranks. Take the USNWR. USC was #20 in 2003, climbed to #18 in 2004 but then dropped to #26 in the latest ranking. According to Businessweek, USC was #17 in 2003 and dropped all the way down to #27 in 2005. So I would say that USC is not really making any strides. Is USC is good B school? Sure. Is it a great B School or is it up-and-coming? Not that I can see.</p>
<p>What are these rankings categorized under? USC is supposed to be in top 10</p>
<p>I am talking MBA rankings. Undergraduate rankings are not telling since they are based purely on academic rankings (not corporate polls), and unlike academic fields, Business is more about corporate reputation than academic reputation. </p>
<p>Furthermore, 70% of the top 10 B schools (like Chicago, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Northwestern and Stanford) do not have undergraduate programs. So yes, USC is ranked #9 or #10 at the undergraduate level, but the difference between the top 4 or 5 and # 9 or #10 is actually significant. </p>
<p>Given the choice between USC Business or Northwestern Economics, I would recommend Northwestern...any day!</p>
<p>Come to Northwestern!</p>
<p>Thank you for those replies. I wonder if undergraduate Biz ratings matter at all?</p>
<p>help me, </p>
<p>FYI, NU's econ has been always in the top 10. </p>
<p>I know 5 NU people applied to MBA (yea, I don't know that many cos I am very bad in keeping in touch); the MBA programs they went or currently attending and their undergrad majors are: INSEAD in France (econ/social policy major as undergrad), Northwestern Kellogg (chem engineering), Harvard (econ/comp science), MIT (industrial engineering), and Chicago (econ). As you know, all are very top MBA programs in the world.</p>
<p>Among these 5, 4 have pretty good undergrad GPAs (above 3.5). The undergrad GPA of the one majoring in chemE is just average (don't know exactly but I know he got few Cs). But he got into consulting instead of chemE industry after college and I know he can work like a horse (he worked pretty hard but didn't get high GPA because chemE was probably the toughest major at NU). I suspect apparently he's done quite well at work and great recommendations from employers/high GMAT score helped him to get into Kellogg despite the mediocre undergrad GPA.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that Northwestern's selectivity ranking is misleadingly low because it uses its own application/essay questions and hence the applicant pool is rather self-selected. It weeds out the ones that are not really that interested and hence lazy about applying to NU. As you know very well, you literally have to put extra effort just for their own application whereas for washU, you can just simply copy and paste from your other applications (all it takes is just extra $60 or whatever). Had Northwestern used the common application, I am pretty sure its application pool would increase in size significantly; but NU apparently doesn't whore the ranking as much as other schools do and want to pick among those that show genuine interest.</p>
<p>KK19131 - I'd like to talk to you about advice on my planning for a visit to NWern next month with my daughter. Would you send me a private message please, by clicking on my username?</p>