<p>Here is a list of schools. My major will be finance. Rank the schools best to worst for business schools or finance majors. The factors should be quality of education and ability to place students in good jobs. Completely ignore price.</p>
<p>UMass Amherst
Boston University
Ohio State
Northeastern
UConn
Boston College
Bryant
U Vermont</p>
<p>Thanks in advance. I know there is a very wide range of schools here, just seeing what different people think</p>
<p>Boston College, Northeastern
BU, UConn, Bryant, UMass Amherst
Ohio state, UVermont</p>
<p>You think Bryant is better business than umass? @MYOS1634 </p>
<p>You said “quality of education” and “ability to place students in good jobs”. Both are at the same level (each line indicates a level).
First, you have to realize that it isn’t the university’s name that “places you in good jobs”. It’s what you do there. What matters is thus how the university treats undergraduates and how easy or difficult it is for them to achieve, be pushed to be better, to stand out and to find opportunities.
Bryant is dedicated to undergraduate business education and all their students have fantastic opportunities. No student falls through the cracks and all students can find their niche, get where they want to go in the world of business. They’re a smaller, private school and they’re dedicated to that mission.
(They’re also in a consortium with two prestigious schools, Wellesley and Olin, but I don’t think it’s a key factor unless you’re looking to add some engineering or elite liberal arts classes to your background).
UMass Amherst has for it the adavantage of name recognition (although Bryant is quite well-known in the business community throughout New England) and size. But size is also its downsides: unless you’re in the top 20% of their admitted students, it’ll be harder to stand out. Their mission, as a research university, is to do research. Educating undergraduates is part of their mandate from the State, but professors aren’t judged on that (in fact, your first year, you may see your professor at the bottom of a large lecture hall, and your primary contact will be with graduate assistants.) So, if you’re in the top 20% and can easily compete, you’ll have a great education. If you’re in the middle 50%, you’ll have what you put in and you’ll have to fend for yourself for the rest, with opportunities much harder to come by. If you’re in the bottom 30%, odds are that you won’t be back the following year.
It all depends how you evaluate yourself.
But in terms of your two criteria, yes I place UMass Amherst and Bryant on the same level.</p>
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I think you mistook Bryant for Babson, and/or Bentley. Bryant is in RI, far from Wellesley and Olin.</p>
<p>Yup, you’re right I wrote too quickly - it’s Babson (which is well above UMass, in my opinion, especially for entrepreneurship) 
My bad. The rest holds though - Bryant is lower-ranked than Babson but it’s still an excellent undergraduate school for business.</p>
<p>I was considering applying to babson. I would probably get in but it would be far more expensive and I’m not doing entrepreneurship. </p>
<p>I believe I would be in the top 20% of umass. I am shooting for honors business, which I know I didn’t specify earlier. </p>
<p>Thank you for the input </p>
<p>Okay, then Honors Business at UMass Amherst is roughly on level with Boston College and Northeastern, but likely to be much, much cheaper.</p>