Top finance universities?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I first applied to UCLA, UCSD, and UCSB (i already got into UCSB through ELC), but i then realized these schools dont have the major that i want to study, which is finance. These schools do have economics, but after reading up on the differences between the two majors, i realized that i dont want to do economics, but i am more interested in finance. So i was just wondering if anybody can give me a list of some good schools in the country that have top finance programs. I have a 3.7 UW, 3.9 W, and a 4.1 UC gpa, my SAT's arent that good, SAT II being terrible actually. But if anybody can give me some schools it would be greatly appreciated.</p>

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<ol>
<li>University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) </li>
<li>New York University (Stern) </li>
<li>University of Michigan–Ann Arbor * </li>
<li>University of California–Berkeley (Haas) * </li>
<li>Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (Sloan) </li>
<li>University of Texas–Austin (McCombs) * </li>
<li>Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley) *
Ohio State University–Columbus (Fisher) * </li>
<li>U. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) * </li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
University of Virginia (McIntire) * </li>
<li>Univ. of Southern California (Marshall) </li>
<li>University of Florida (Warrington) *
Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison * </li>
<li>University of Washington * </li>
<li>U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign * </li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) </li>
<li>Boston College (Carroll)
Univ. of Maryland–College Park (Smith) *
University of Notre Dame (IN) </li>
<li>Pennsylvania State U.–University Park (Smeal) *
Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN)*
Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson) *</li>
</ol>

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<p>Thank you very much</p>

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<p>Are the asterisks public U's?</p>

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<p>Yes...and out of curiousity, what are you SAT and Subject test scores?</p>

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<p>You could look at just a general Economics degree and concentrating in Finance by taking related course - I think thats what people at Pton/Dartmouth/Harv/Duke/etc. do, since they are big business school/finance feeder schools but don't have undergrad b-schools.</p>

<p>Just an idea.</p>

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<p>how much does the strength of the finance program compared to the rest of the university really have to dowith the job market and such? I'm looking at probably UF, with an outside shot at Emory, but while Emory is always considered a better university and has a much better business school in general, UF's finance specialty is ranked higher.</p>

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<p>Alright im gonna post my stats so that some of u guys can guide me to some top finance schools:</p>

<p>SAT I: 600 M, 600 CR, and 490 W
SAT II: Math IIC 580, Lit 530 (very bad scores in my view, i dont know what happened, im very dissapointed in myself).</p>

<p>And my gpa is in the first post.
Thanks</p>

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<p>Job market? Universities introduce graduates into the job market but they have nothing to do with how many jobs are available. Ok your really looking to get into a school that has a good finance program. Is it to go into a finance related job? Probably so. With your grades, and especially with your SAT scores, you probably wouldnt get into a school with a finance program that would leave you in any better position than you are in right now. Econ and Finance go hand in hand, one is theoretical one is applied. Both will be fine to get you into a business career. UCSD has one of the best econ departments in the country, UCLA has one of the best business programs (biz econ) in the country. Just stick with the UC's, get good grades so you can go to work and have the grades and work experience to get yourself into a good graduate school.</p>

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<p>Thanks for your reply. Ya im really hoping i get into UCSD. I already got into UCSB, but, you know, I'd rather go to San Diego because of their econ program.</p>

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<p>biggity bump....</p>

<p>With my stats up there^^^^ (bad, i know), can someone else give me a good list of schools.
Thanks.</p>

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<p>You will probably change your major again (according to statistics) so i wouldn't worry TOO much about it</p>

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<p>With you stats, I'd say you still have a good shot at a few good finance programs...</p>

<p>Possible Reaches:[ul]
[<em>]University of Connecticut
[</em>]Villanova
[<em>]Fordham Unviersity
[</em>]Northeastern
[<em>]Trinity University
[</em>]Babson College
[li]University of Washington (I'm a little unsure of how competitive Washington is out of state, any insight from some else?)[/ul] </p>[/li]
<p>Possible Matches:[ul]
[<em>]Rochester Institute of Technology (I had to smack myself after forgetting how great a program they had, a Top 50 Business School)
[</em>]Syracuse University
[<em>]St. Josephs University
[</em>]Santa Clara University
[<em>]Bentley College
[</em>]Ithaca College[/ul]</p>

<p>Possible Safeties:[ul]
[<em>]Bryant University (would be your best safety)
[</em>]UC Santa Cruz
[<em>]UC Riverside
[</em>]University of San Francisco
[/ul]...but you already have UCSB & hopefully UCSD to fall back on</p>

<p>I'd say that you have atleast a shot at any of those reaches, and you have some good matches to look at. Go through all of, with particular attention on RIT, Syracuse, St. Josephs, & Bentley. You should have atleast 2-3 matches, and maybe a couple reaches. Good luck, and I'm here to answer any more question.</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot. But if i get into UCSD, dont you think i should enroll there because of its excellent econ program? And like the person said up there^^, econ and finance go hand in hand.</p>

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<p>I think a major question for you is, what do you want to do with your finance degree? If you want to pursue graduate school, etc, I'd probably recommend the better econ/finance programs. If you want to go to ibanking etc. in NYC, I wouldn't recommend any of those colleges because none of them would give you a strong chance of getting into an ibank because they are considered non-core schools for the purposes of recruiting.</p>

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<p>What schools are you talking about?? The ones Cre8tive1 listed? Or the UC's I listed?</p>

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<p>im talking ones that you have a good shot in. im not discouraging you from applying to the top biz schools, im just saying don't get yourself into something unless you're sure it will take you where u want to go.</p>

<p>if you want to go into ibanking, look at where the ibanks recruit. let me give you an example. for lehman brothers: <a href="http://www.lehman.com/careers/calendar/cgi-bin/search.cgi?school_name=purdue&Submit.x=0&Submit.y=0%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.lehman.com/careers/calendar/cgi-bin/search.cgi?school_name=purdue&Submit.x=0&Submit.y=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>from creative's list these are the schools they consider core schools. if you went to the other schools they would hire in very few numbers if at all:
1. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
2. New York University (Stern)
3. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
4. University of California–Berkeley (Haas) *
5. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (Sloan)
6. University of Texas–Austin (McCombs) *
10. University of Virginia (McIntire) *</p>

<p>only for MBA:
9. U. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
12. Univ. of Southern California (Marshall)</p>

<p>only for operations:
13. University of Florida (Warrington) *</p>

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<p>Again, I am confused. First off, i dont know what ibanking is. Does it have to do with the stock market? Secondly, those top 10 schools you listed, companies dont like to hire from there? Why not?</p>

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<p>No, he's saying that those top 10 schools are core schools and highly recruited at...the link you posted hopeful doesn't work.</p>

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<p>What is the difference between econ and finance, what jobs apply to each of those? oh and what's ibanking...international banking..?</p>