<p>How's the finance department look at Tech? I'm looking for a transfer school from the DCCCD to either Mays (A&M) or Rawls (Tech). I really have no intention of moving out of Texas so national reputation doesn't mean that much to me as long as I can get a decent job. Is the difference between a tier one and two really that great?</p>
<p>Finance is probably one of the best things to major in when you are looking at the business school at Texas Tech. </p>
<p>If you are thinking about more of the “investments” side of finance and possible thinking of getting a CFA in the future…Texas Tech is the way to go. Its the only university in Texas that has an approved program by the CFA institute and I know plenty of people that have passed their Level I right after their undergrad and working to pass their Level II currently.
[CFA</a> Program Partners in North America](<a href=“http://www.cfainstitute.org/cfaprog/university/northamerica.html]CFA”>http://www.cfainstitute.org/cfaprog/university/northamerica.html)</p>
<p>Also, if you have the time get a double major of finance and accounting (esp. if you don’t plan to go on to grad school right after undergrad). You will stand out from all the other finance students and will open up a lot of doors and you will have a lot more options at career fairs. Plus, most companies looking for finance majors require 9-12 hours of accounting…so why not take it a step further. It would probably just take an extra semester. It will help when you are trying to interview for a job and fight with people from other schools…they might want to take a Tech grad with finance/accounting over a A&M grad with only finance. Not every school allows a finance/accounting double, so its def. something to look at if you come to Tech.</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with A&M, its just more competitive. So you might hear about how its better or that they have more companies at career fairs but at the same time it is harder to stand out if you go to a school like that.</p>
<p>In the end, if you are a top student…it wont matter if you go to Tech or A&M you will have lots of opportunities to get a good job.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, Kb. I appreciate the input.</p>
<p>i transfer to A&M but both schools have a good business program</p>
<p>It’s a good program. That’s what I was majoring in at Tech (the real estate track) before I transferred to A&M. Texas State might have a better business program now but it doesn’t really matter; you’re looking at the same jobs whether you have a finance BBA from Tech, Texas State, and quite possibly A&M.</p>
<p>You’ll be able to transfer to Tech easy as long as you have a good GPA. But Mays at A&M? Not so much. They only let in 75 outside transfer students into Mays and you pretty much have to have AT LEAST a 3.8 overall on all eight of their required classes except for MGMT 211 (it’s not a common class at community colleges so they have leeway). Honestly it’s not worth it. Mays is only competitive because they want to keep their headcount down, not because the program is leaps and bounds above Tech’s (although the MBA program is).</p>
<p>I actually could have directly transferred into Mays but I went into economics instead. I just didn’t care for the environment at Mays. For one, the business building is somewhat secluded on the underdeveloped side of campus (west campus). Most of your classes as well as student organizations meet in that building so it’s easy to get detached from the rest of the university. That and some of the students acted like investment bankers or whatever but without the paycheck.</p>
<p>But if I stayed at Tech I would have stayed in the finance program there.</p>
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<p>I went to the business career fairs at A&M before the economy went down the drain. I wasn’t really impressed. The companies weren’t exactly prestigious to put it nicely and there were way too many “insurance advisors” (meaning selling insurance to your grandmother) type companies. Plus a lot of the companies that recruit at the career fair also recruit at other big schools so you’re still competing in the same pool as UT, Florida, Tennessee, Purdue, etc. So yeah, it is a bit harder to stand out.</p>
<p>For more specialized, regional majors like construction or various engineering fields, the career fairs at A&M are much better. </p>
<p>I don’t see it as an advantage of going to A&M over Tech for finance. The big advantage with A&M is the networking between former students.</p>
<p>it is much easier to transfer into Mays if your already at A&M, you need like a 3.0 and the classes that are required</p>
<p>but techs B school is GREAT, they are currently ranked 52 on the USNR, they are rising each and every year</p>