<p>UCSB is not very known for their business program so I have a few questions before I decide to take their offer.</p>
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<li><p>How often do these graduate get jobs (of course assuming they did well in school)? Is it difficult? Are most stduents unable to find employment after graduating?</p></li>
<li><p>Does UCSB have enough connections or prestige that companies and industries have an invested interest in?</p></li>
<li><p>How difficult is it to get to know teachers well enough to get good recommendations?</p></li>
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<p>I'm just highly curious and worried because I have heard private schools have a much better social network and connections for business graduates.</p>
<p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!</p>
<p>I am in the same boat as you, except I was offered admission for the Pre- Economics major. I already accepted my admission offer to SDSU (Business Admin, either finance or accounting) but I’m still considering UCSB. I hope someone can shed some light on the Economics/Accounting major at UCSB as I am interested to make the switch if it is worth it.</p>
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<li>I hear the Big 4 recruit heavily from there, but no actual numbers on how many students are getting jobs.</li>
<li>I would say the connections are limited for UCSB just because of location. For example, if you wanted to complete some internships during school there probably is a lot more competition for those due to Santa Barbara not being much of an urban city full of business. On the other hand it definitely has prestige in its title for the west coast and southern california.</li>
<li>I imagine it can be pretty hard to get recommendations or the attention you want from professors because of large classes, but the actual major courses are tend to have smaller classes which are less than 200.</li>
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<p>@jibron I suggest you stay with SDSU because it has an actual business school and is in an urban setting for you to take advantage of internship opportunities and future jobs. SDSU as you know will give you hands on skills while UCSB may prepare you more for grad school. So SDSU will be good for you if you want to work right away after graduation.</p>