It’s useful but to go to top, you’ll need a masters regardless of having a BBA or BA/BS. Might as well study something you like and what adds dual qualification. By the way, never underestimate power of an artsy degree, it can set you apart from boring inside the box BBA crowd.
Only BBA I would recommend is Wharton due to Ivy name and resources value. It’s just my opinion, you do what suits you.
@Riversider You seem to know a lot about business. Do you think a Master’s in Marketing is a marketable degree if you know for sure you are only interested in marketing? Also, if someone does major in business as an undergrad is it more useful to minor in career related subjects or does it make you more interesting to minor in subjects such as philosophy? Thanks!!
“UT Business and Engineering schools rank in the top 3 - 5 in the country. Their accounting is either 1 or 2 with Illinois each year. Goldman Sachs ranks UT the top school in Texas to recruit from.”
I worked in IB at a bulge bracket firm in NYC and have recruited at about 10 universities, mostly MBA. UT business is not a top five school for investment banking or strategy consulting. It’s very good for Big 4 accounting and can help you get into Texas IB and a shot at NYC. Our bank had a recruiter for Wharton BBA and then all other schools. Michigan, UVa, UNC and Stern are excellent undergrad b-schools and preferred. You can major in Art History at Harvard and have a better shot at a banking job than a Texas public university.
Goldman may rank UT the best in Texas. It has a large talent pool. You have to consider which jobs that it’s hiring. Investment banking, sales & trading, derivatives or…predominately private wealth, treasury, risk management?
Unless you go to a Top 20 university (top 15 national and top 5 LAC), you’d probably want to major in business. The top school grads can major in whatever they want because they have lots of fellow students going into financial services and consulting so they can assist with interview prep.
For close to the same price, I’d recommend SMU over UT due to personal attention and comparable job opportunities. Rice is better still.
Tristatecoog, you missed the point of the whole exchange and your bias and emotion entered it. The response was to SMU being better than all state schools in Texas. Has nothing to do with Harvard, Michigan, UVA, UNC. Not sure why you interjected those into the discussions. Just more emotion and preference. SMU all is without scholarships is $74,000 annually. UT is $25,000. This is tuition, room and board and books. Where on earth did you arrive at close to the same price? SMU is about being in Dallas. UT is international. Not sure, but your post is so riddled with holes…the schools you listed and then stated “preferred” makes no sense.
I believe percap that SMU has more on Wall Street than UT. That was my experience. Both are much smaller than other schools I mentioned.
SMU offers a lot of merit based scholarships and the all-in costs are within $10k per year for strong applicants. Compared with UT, SMU has smaller, and easier access to, classes and more major flexibility from what I’ve heard. UT is a fine school and good value but also 5x larger than SMU which draws students from all over the U.S. and internationally.
@citymama9 I believe every gegree is as a useful as the person receiving it and the college giving it. Marketing degree has lot of potential and philosophy type minors can teach you analytical skills to be good at marketing jobs as you have a better understanding of humans, better ability to write and better ability to argue your point of view.
UT’s business honours program is better and even if aid and merit can make both programs equal, it’s a better choice. Only reason, I would prefer SMU business over it is if SMU is cheaper than UT for you due to a free ride.
@Riversider how many are admitted into the Business Honors program at UT? It seems like a very good program. Cox Scholars vs. McCombs (non-Bus Honors) seems tilted to SMU even with paying a bit more. As a recruiter at both schools and mentor at Cox, it just seems like you have to be prepared to pay well to recruit at Cox. Same is true at McCombs but just much bigger. Wider range of talent at McCombs perhaps?
UT’s program has more talent as they have a bigger pool but may be with an exception of BHP undergrads, it’s a wash with SMU.
I must repeat that really get somewhere, you have to have an MBA, unless you are extraordinary, have extraordinary connections or are extraordinarily lucky. Only reason you feel SMU does better, many of their kids get things through their family connections.
Anyone here a current Dedman Scholar or past recipient? Curious what types of interview questions to expect.
@oredad did the interview already happen? My daughter had hers today. It’s multiple people, FYI. All (most?) current students.
@Meadow530 My interview is this afternoon. Any tips?
@isabelle625 It sounds like it was friendly and low key, but they definitely want to know why SMU and why Dedman Scholars so I would make sure you feel prepared to talk about how the program would be a great fit for you and your chosen career path/vision. I’m sure questions vary but I believe they also talked about favorite books and course subjects, and some of your best and/or most challenging academic experiences.Good luck!
Any word on when ED2 will be out? Or when it was released last year?
I was told second week of Feb, not sure if that means Feb 7-14 or the literal second week (11-18)
I got deferred from EA do you think my chances are better because of this or do most people get deferred?
Did you get an 1150 or a 1330 on the SAT? That makes a difference, and I feel like I saw different scores for you. @gsbc12 And is your gpa 3.34 or .3.8. Totally different stats on the Colorado thread and the Richmond thread.
You might have me confused with someone else. I have an 1150 and 3.34 @citymama9
Please accept my apologies. I completely mixed you up with someone else. I am so, so sorry. @gsbc12
No worries! @citymama9. Do you think my chances are better because I got deferred or do most people get deferred?
@gsbc12 Thanks so much for forgiving me! I feel really bad. Anyway, my daughter was also deferred. They didn’t deny you outright, so that’s very good. What might help you is if you have done very well this semester in challenging classes and if you have any EC things that you they might be impressed by. Best of luck to you.