<p>Hey everyone, I'm currently torn between ND and BC and I could use some insight on which is better relative to student life, academics, networking, etc. I've been accepted to both early action and I got into the honors program at BC as well. I also visited both campuses and loved them both. I'm thinking about majoring in business, and I know both schools are excellent in that area. Which would you choose???</p>
<p>I personally would probably choose ND but I didn’t apply to either of those schools. Congrats on having such wonderful choices :)</p>
<p>personally i would choose BC solely due to location. i would choose the boston area over south bend every time. and no this is not due to my football bias lol</p>
<p>Depends on the major, really. </p>
<p>I’d probably pick Boston College only due to location, as josebiwasabi said unless I’m going for business.</p>
<p>ND does have a higher ranked business school.</p>
<p>Notre Dame has one of the best alumni networks.</p>
<p>Notre Dame because it’s…Notre Dame. nuff said.</p>
<p>for biz, alumni networks can be extremely helpful. ND’s has been a more national Uni, historically, so it’s alums are everywhere. OTOH, if you live in the NE, BC’s network is extremely strong in that 'hood.</p>
<p>You can ask for opinions, only you can make that important decision for yourself! :)</p>
<p>Well, they are both in cold places so I can’t say you will freeze you nether regions off if you go to ND. </p>
<p>They are pretty close and for business you can’t go wrong either way. I think ND has a little more national recognition but, for guys, that recognition is somewhat related to how well the football team is doing lately and all that fades the minute you get your first task at the office so it really isn’t an important enough thing, I think, to compel you to pick ND over BC. </p>
<p>I’d prefer Boston, so I be packing for BC and ordering Eagle sweatshirts off Ebay.</p>
<p>ND isn’t that far from Chicago if you desire some weekends in a big city.</p>
<p>However, for the fall weekends, you’ll have enough going on right in South Bend not to want to leave the city. </p>
<p>NO…the school does NOT just have “name recognition” when the team is doing well…that’s just crazy talk. ND is the most recognized Catholic university in the country. And, if you’re going to live and work in an area that has a decent % of Catholics, you’re always going to get smiles and nods when you say that you went to N.D.</p>
<p>ND is not close enough to Chicago for nights out on the town. You really will want to spend the night at a hotel in the city if you are going to head in.</p>
<p>“ND is the most recognized Catholic university in the country.”</p>
<p>I’d say Georgetown is more recognized worldwide.</p>
<p>I agree. Georgetown is probably the most recognised and reknown catholic university. Notre Dame is probably second with BC coming in third. I can’t think of any other excellent catholic universities that are on the same level as these three. </p>
<p>I would prefer to live in Boston or DC over Indiana, but that is definitely a personal decision.</p>
<p>Most people dont even consider GT Catholic. They have really gotten away from it’s religious roots and I think less than half of it’s student body is not Catholic, unlike ND with 85%.</p>
<p>Notre Dame in a heartbeat…this isn’t even close.</p>
<p>business week ranks notre dame business program number 1 and bc number 9
[Top</a> Undergraduate Business Programs 2010 - Businessweek](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>
<p>Boston College is known to ND students as “Backup College” for a reason…</p>
<p>“Most people dont even consider GT Catholic. They have really gotten away from it’s religious roots and I think less than half of it’s student body is not Catholic, unlike ND with 85%.”</p>
<p>Perhaps religious Catholics think that way. The rest of us see GT as a Catholic school. ;-)</p>
<p>^ then I suppose you could say ND is the most acclaimed “conservative” Catholic University in the country, and Georgetown is the most acclaimed “Catholic” University in the country.</p>
<p>Anyway, the weather in South Bend, IN is not the same as Cambridge, MA. South Bend is on average 6 degrees colder in the coldest months, and a couple degrees hotter in the hottest months. A more significant difference is to be found in the off-campus opportunities in in Cambridge v. South Bend.</p>