<p>Accepted to honors at OSU and Miami with the intentions of studying business admin. and finance. How strong is the OSU honors business program and what are the job prospects like?</p>
<p>I’m assuming that you mean Miami of Ohio?</p>
<p>If that’s the case then you have a choice between two very good undergraduate business programs. Business would be the one department/college where I feel Miami can compete with Ohio State. Miami’s program is going to be more undergraduate focused. OTOH, the presence of top MBA and Ph.D programs at Ohio State will give you exposure to a higher quality of faculty. On the undergraduate level, I think both colleges tend to have roughly equivalent prestige, recruiting opportunity and salary potential.</p>
<p>Given the high quality and relative equal stature between the business schools at the two schools, I’d look more at the overall universities and student bodies in making the decision, as they’re very different–urban vs. rural; large campus vs. medium sized; lots of diversity vs. very little diversity, a good mix of politics vs. conservative and greek. The school that fits you better socially and culturally is probably the better choice.</p>
<p>One other thing, if you are thinking about doing a double major outside of business (engineering or arts & sciences) then I’d feel that strongly tilts the decision towards Ohio State, as Miami simply doesn’t offer nearly the quality of departments or faculty that you’ll get at a major, national research university.</p>
<p>The last (;95) National Research Council’s rating of academic departments.
[NRC</a> Rankings in Each of 41 Areas](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html]NRC”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html)</p>
<p>There’s one other distinction between the programs based on my time at Ohio State and looking at the admission stats in BusinessWeek for Miami.</p>
<p>At Miami it would seem that the best students gravitate towards the business college–average SAT somewhat higher than the average SAT.</p>
<p>At Ohio State, the average students gravitate towards the business college (average SAT a couple of points below the overall average SAT). At Ohio State, my experience was that most top students gravitate towards (in order): the hard sciences, engineering, humanities and social sciences and then business.</p>
<p>These are overall numbers, and of course, there are exceptions and plenty of honors students in the business college at Ohio State as well as plenty of middle of the road students at Miami–inevitably with 40+ percent of undergraduate majoring in business. It is, however, one interesting difference between the two schools.</p>
<p>LennyP:</p>
<p>Nice fact-based analyses.</p>
<p>strange, I heard that Farmer was one of the biggest and most valued parts of Ohio State.</p>
<p>Fisher? The business school at Ohio is the Fisher School of Business. It is large and important, but it doesn’t dominate the university the way the Farmer School at Miami of Ohio dominates that university.</p>
<p>For example, the 4 most popular majors (and 6 of the top 10) at Ohio State are liberal arts and sciences majors. The most popular business major checks in at 5th with another 2 in the top 10. At Miami of Ohio, just under half the students major in business, and 4 of the top 5 most popular majors are business disciplines.</p>