My S is thinking about attending RPI for business – the Quantitative Finance and Risk Analytics concerntration looks pretty cutting edge. Any feedback on this program? He’s also been accepted to BC and Villanova with no merit. He received the Medal ($25K a year) for RPI. Stats: 5.2GPA (4.0 UW), Varsity Football State Champ, Baseball, NHS President etc etc. All AP’s with 5’s. We are from the midwest and he would like to experience the east coast for undergrad. Any students or parents that can add insight to help in the decision making would be appreciated. 
I know someone that was in the graduate program for Risk Analytics at RPI - his starting salary was easily around 120k. Lally is definitely one of the most underrated schools at RPI, I’ve taken a few courses and actually learned a lot. It’s not your typical business school where you’re doing just plain management, Lally grads are known for being more quant/math/cs oriented than peer schools. So pretty much business, but tech-oriented.
Courses like marketing principles and statistics make you do your own research which helps a lot. You also learn the SPSS, R, SQL, and Python by the time you end the program in that concentration. When I took data resource management the professor wrote nine textbooks and gave them to us for free to use in the course under the condition we wouldn’t leak them online. He’s modifying the class to also incorporate cloud-computing for management. I’d definitely recommend it, the professor’s are really great and the classes are small. Nova and BC are also great schools though - kuddos.