<p>Hey, I've become really interested in the academics, location, and resources availability at Emory, but I have a concern. I did some research and found that they were supposedly ranked at their peak 8th in us news. Does anybody know how emory has stacked up in the last 10 years? I'm just a bit concerned about how much an emory degree will help me go to grad school/get a job if I don't want to do pre-med, thanks.</p>
<p>Ranked 20th among national universities by USNW in 2006 ranking. I don't know how they did in 2007.</p>
<p>Business Week ranked their undergraduate business school #5 overall, and #8 as a feeder school for MBA programs.</p>
<p>The link to that ranking is here:</p>
<p>USNW ranked the undergraduate business program as #12 overall.</p>
<p>According to Fiske, "Emory is often compared to Duke, Vanderbilt, and Georgetown, but is probably most like Washington University in St. Louis because of its strong medical and business programs and proximity to a major metropolitan area".</p>
<p>There was one year that Emory was ranked around 8th or 9th, but that was the year that US News changed their ranking methodology. Overall, Emory has hovered around 15-25 in the last 15 years or so. It was ranked 17 or 18 in 2007.</p>
<p>currently ranked 17th by USNWR
Business Week ranked them 4th for undergraduate business and 23 for graduate business
Business</a> School Rankings and Profiles: EMBA, Executive Education, MBA, Part-time MBA, Distance MBA
Undergrad</a> B-School Rankings: Interactive Table
USNews.com:</a> America's Best Colleges 2008: National Universities: Top Schools</p>
<p>seriously...are we honestly at the point where we are going to doubt a top 20 school's ability to land you a job post-graduation? #1 we've already determined emory has one of the best business and pre med programs in the country and furthermore as a top 20 school has strong departments across the board. </p>
<p>if you intend on going to law school you can get into any law school with high grades and lsats from emory and its not emory that would get you your first job, but law school that would. as for med school, the same goes. as for mba, you would need a good UG to get you your first job before grad mba but as we said goizueta is great at doing that. as for the other departments, emory is a top 20 school so i really don't believe there will be any other problems to getting a job other than the one of increased competition that even kids from harvard suffer from</p>
<p>I think the whole rankings thing is overblown. As long as you're are at a university that has enough resources to enable you to do whatever you do best, you'll be fine. Learning how an electron transport chain works is the same no matter if you do it at GA Tech or Princeton. The teachers might have different personalities and different budgets, but none of us are remotely smart enough to be restrained by the academics of any top university. And as dorian said, it's all about graduate school anyways. Emory definitely isn't going to hold anybody back.</p>
<p>I and my son have no doubts about Emory's strong programs--in particular in his area of interest, which is business.</p>
<p>For two years he has been interested in transferring to either Emory or USC. I've never mentioned Emory in any of my posts because I didn't want to encourage competition--especially considering Emory is his first choice. Now that their transfer deadline for the business school has finally passed (it was February 15th), I can post here for the first time about his interest in the school.</p>
<p>As doctorjohndorian said, Emory is strong in all departments--and the rankings show business and pre-med at the top of the list. It is in a great metropolitan location, and it has great weather (well, at least during the school year), and is great for placement (as long as you aren't trying to land a job on Wall Street--which my son has ZERO interest in doing). </p>
<p>Three years ago he was interested in a job in NY and on Wall Street and even applied as a freshman to NYU, but he changed his mind during the senior year of high school. As he put it, "Why would anyone want to fight the horrific traffic, pay the high prices, freeze in the cold weather, and fight with all the super-competitive people in NY when you can have a great life in wonderful cities or suburbs of places like Atlanta, Miami, LA, Dallas or SF?" </p>
<p>I believe that is a very good question.</p>
<p>haha, silly californians think its "freezing" in NY. but good point overall</p>
<p>Well, the high was 17 degrees when we were there in NY visiting. I don't know what "typical" NY weather is like, although my wife does since she grew up there--and moved away to live at the beach in California. But, I think I'm off the topic of this thread, so I'll quit now.</p>
<p>the only way to look at ranges is with RANGES. Emory is in the top 20 RANGE</p>