<p>OK, is for example Indiana University, university of Illinois at Urbana or Purdue University better (academically, job placement) in business major than private school ranked on lower place? For example Babson, Bentley, GEORGETOWN University, Northeastern, Boston University, Syracuse University, Villanova and many others!!! I have sent my application to most of the schools, both private and public on this list (except Georgetown and Villanova) and have been admitted to some of them. So now I’m thinking where to go, rankings say that I must go to Indiana University or Illinois, and most of the people on CC think that rankings are useful and logical so they will also recommend me to go to these publics. I’m international and I don’t know much about ranking in US, but as I know private institutions are thought to be more prestigious in USA. And recruitment is much better. Also if publics are better why do privates are more selective? Its just not logical, how can challenging classes with more intellectual students be lower in ranking? (I’m not saying that in publics there are no intellectuals but it is the fact that there are many dumb kids also). So can someone tell me how the system in your country works? On the one hand everyone looks at ranking on the other it is the fact that privates are better academically (or am I wrong?)</p>
<p>I guess looking at WHERE these kids are getting recruited as opposed to how many get recruited would help.</p>
<p>Georgetown will beat any of the schools on that list. The "elite" privates have the best resources and the best recruiting regardless of departmental rank. To emphasize the point: Not one of Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Williams, Amherst, or Chicago have an undergrad business school yet these schools dominate wall street and top consulting. In the business world, prestige wins.</p>
<p>BUT after the "prestige privates" (of which Gtown is included) privates lose their extra boost. So for business, I would actually prefer an Indiana or UIUC over a private that isn;t as prestigious.</p>
<p>So public school graduates are reqruited by more prestigious firms on better positions?</p>
<p>slipper1234. And is not Babson, Bentley, or even Northeastern more prestigious than publics listed above?</p>
<p>I have children at both public and private colleges. It's hard to generalize, but public schools often have much larger classes than private colleges which is a big disadvantage for some depending on learning style. However, some privates also have large classes. You must look at the stats of individual schools for what's important to you. You can often find which companies recruit on their web site, but expect access to better jobs based on how respected the school is and how it ranks for the program you'll be in.</p>
<p>As Slipper says though, you can't beat the most elite colleges for recruitment for anything.</p>
<p>kirmum. Yes I agree that you can't beat, but I have not sent my application only to Georgetown and Villanova on this list. So I’m having hard times to conclude which one is more prestigious from the remaining universities, because rankings say that publics are more prestigious but privates are more selective. To my understanding more selective means more intellectual student body, more intellectual student body more challenging classed, more challenging classes more is the quality of education. And plus what you already mentioned the small class size. BUT why are these publics higher in rank, this makes my choice hard :)</p>
<p>Thank you for responses</p>
<p>First I wouldn't worry about prestige, or selectivity.
Rather check out average SAT and high school gpa's for each school and see where you fit in; researching the career centers will give you an indication of the companies that recruit on campus and where recent graduates end up. Do you want to go to a small school, a city school?</p>
<p>In your case, at least imo, Indiana, Illinois and Purdue, are all well-regarded state schools where you can get a good education for a lesser price. Babson, Bentley with their narrow focus are hard to compare to a giant school like Indiana. BU, Syracuse, Northeastern are respectable schools but I wouldn't call them TOP privates. That was the point of the others regarding Georgetown, where you didn't apply...Georgetown would be regarded above Indiana, Ill and Purdue, but the other privates on your list would not, and cost a lot more.</p>
<p>2331clk is on the money. The schools you applied to aren;t top privates, so I would say Indiana is your best bet among the schools you listed.</p>
<p>DOLO,</p>
<p>the top public schools with top business schools will get recruited at the same places where top private schools with top business schools get recruited from. public/private doesn't really matter as much as people think as the top public business schools are on pretty much equal footing with top private business schools.</p>
<p>People on college confidential greatly exaggerate the differences between public and private universities. Indiana, Purdue, and Illinois are fine universities for business.</p>
<p>GEORGETOWN - dp u have to ask
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<p>It's going to depend on the state. For example, in Washington, there is really no school better than the University of Washington. The only college that is better is Whitman College, but Whitman doesn't offer the same level of education in the sciences or graduate level education.</p>
<p>On the other hand, in my state, Seattle University (7th on the west coast out of masters level colleges) is going to be far better than the other publics like Central Washington, or even...Washington State.</p>
<p>Boston University has an excellent location--Boston,where MIT and Harvard are based, you may go there and try to transfer to Harvard. It could be a way though.</p>