<p>How well does Tufts do with grad school placement, specifically business schools?</p>
<p>I think Tufts has good but not “great” business program. If you really want to study business I would say go with BC, Babson, Bentley or BU. But if you want to study anything else, go with Tufts.</p>
<p>Tufts has great placement with law schools, med schools, engineering schools, and liberal arts Master’s degree programs. Business school? It’s difficult to tell, for at least a couple distinct reasons.
First, the usual track to a good MBA program includes at least a couple years of work experience after undergrad before applying, meaning that it’s very difficult for schools to compile statistics on that.
Second, Tufts places a huge emphasis on “global leadership” and “active citizenship” when they select their incoming classes, so people with any interest at all in business are severely under-represented among the student body. They’re looking for pragmatic idealists, a group of people not usually attracted to the world of high finance or upper management.</p>
<p>From what I know about business schools (and I researched them for a bit, intending on going to one) the undergrad program you do won’t matter all that much. At the very least, MBA programs don’t PREFER that you went to business school as an undergrad (in fact, my friend at BU’s school of management claims his professors say MBA programs prefer you DIDN’T, as there’s too much overlap). What will matter more will be your GPA, recommendations, GMAT scores, and WORK EXPERIENCE (along with recommendations from your work, of course). These are all on you. As is so often the case, the school you attend isn’t even a fraction as important as how well you do in school.</p>
<p>Go wherever you feel you’ll be able to be the strongest student you could. That means being happy, finding your courses challenging, your professors supportive, and having classes available that you find interesting. If that ends up being Tufts, don’t worry, we’re fully equipped to prepare you with what you need to know about business and get you connected to good jobs through our Econ department, Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies department, and the Tufts Finance Group as an extracurricular (they’re the ones that’ll get you ballin’ summer internships and help you get the job you need between graduation and an MBA program). If you could be happier/more challenged/more supported/more interested somewhere else, go there.</p>
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Tufts does not have a business program at all.</p>
<p>^ Truth. I misread that and thought it said “business placement” the first time around.</p>
<p>alright.</p>
<p>so basically I think I shafted myself by choosing tufts over duke. I loved the feel of tufts, and it seemed like a better fit for me then duke, but I’m not sure that justifies the humongous difference in academic reputation (beyond just with business/grad programs). I mean finding a place thats a good fit is great, but where you go for college determines the rest of your life, for better or for worse.</p>
<p>pardon my rant.</p>
<p>You will get a great education. It is an awesome place…and in the end you dont know in 4 years if you will still want business school. Fit can be everything, enjoy, go to a pre orientation, stop worrying…</p>
<p>Where you go for college determines the rest of your life? Only a college student would think that. Wait until other major life events happen: lng-term relationships, kids, illnesses, career changes, etc. Then you’ll see that how you choose to live your life is what determines the rest of your life.</p>
<p>thanks guys.</p>
<p>my maturity level has seriously sunk as of late because of my second-guessing. sorry, the internet is just too perfect a place to rant.</p>
<p>I just want college to start so I can stop antagonizing about it.</p>
<p>I’m just nervous because it seems like Tufts is really good at graduating kids into public service areas, but what about other areas? What if some of us actually want a return on our investment lol</p>
<p>westernhillsmom is right (parents so often are) except that I would argue only a high school thinks that. When you actually get to college, you realize that your school doesn’t actually guarantee you a job at all.
You’re right, Duke enjoys greater name-recognition than Tufts. It is difficult to claim that this name-recognition will translate into more career opportunities. Once you get into the real world, employers will care about your work, not your school. In most cases, your undergrad degree will be an interesting side-note at a dinner conversation, not your major selling point. A Harvard degree won’t help you get or keep a job if you’re a lazy, stupid, demanding, self-righteous, or wasteful employee. By the same token, if you’re an educable (this is arguably the most important virtue), diligent, intelligent, and proactive worker, you’ll rise quickly: Ken Lewis went to Georgia State University, and today’s he’s the President & CEO of the largest bank in the country. </p>
<p>(And yes, before you ask, Tufts has some success stories of it’s own: we count as alums the CEOs of JPMorgan, DuPont, Loews Hotels, and Pfizer, two Vice Chairmans of Goldman Sachs, and less successful but more interesting, Lea & Andrew Fastow, now serving time for masterminding the Enron scandal. [List</a> of Tufts University people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“List of Tufts University people - Wikipedia”>List of Tufts University people - Wikipedia))</p>
<p>The question you should be asking yourself is not how many people will recognize the name of the school you go to, but where you can get the best education and learn how to be the best worker and human that you can. I know that’s a seldomly-expressed idea here on CC, but you gotta realize that you’re surrounded with neurotic ambitious high school students who have convinced themselves and each other that “prestige” matter more than being happy or well-educated.</p>
<p>Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, attaches as much importance to the prestige of undergrad programs as high school students do.</p>
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Don’t confuse correlation with causality. Tufts graduates a lot of kids into public service because it tends to attract kids who planned on going into public service, just like NYU graduates a lot of kids into high finance because it attracted kids who wanted to go into high finance.
Doesn’t mean that an NYU kid can’t work for the State Department or a Tufts kid can’t get a job in i-banking.</p>
<p>If you want to go into finance, you should know by now: “past performance is not a guarantee of future results”.
;-)</p>
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Again, majoring in “business” undergrad has nothing to do with getting into business grad schools.</p>
<p>Plus the majority of Duke students marry their siblings, so…</p>
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Well colleges kids too, at least until they enter the job market and realize how worthless their degree is.</p>
<p>“humongous difference in academic reputation”? Just because Duke is ranked 10 spots ahead of Tufts doesn’t make it a humongous difference in terms of academics. Top 50 schools will give you an equal education, you just have to make the most of it. In terms of business, Duke would probably have been the better choice but I think the proximity to a major city will give you a leg up on internships and jobs.</p>
<p>Yea there’s not too many internships in Hicktown USA.</p>
<p>it doesn’t matter if there are no internships in durham, duke actually has a network on wall street/financial world.</p>
<p>and i never said anything about majoring in business undergrad. I meant in terms of how financial institutions view the school.</p>
<p>Networking don’t help if you ain’t got the goods to back it up.</p>
<p>Tufts has a network in the financial world, and TFG and the Economics society bring representatives of that network here all the time.</p>
<p>If you come here think you made a huge mistake, that you’ll have a horrible time here, and that you won’t end up getting a job, you’ll end up proving yourself right on all three counts.</p>
<p>Regarding the network:</p>
<p>This semester, Choate Investment Advisors, a Boston-based boutique, has come to Tufts and TFG about a half dozen times with the explicit intention of cultivating a relationship, TFG alum Eric Stern has come to campus twice recruiting for BlackRock, with the explicit intention to foster a pipeline from Tufts to BlackRock (he wants this to start out small, with 1-3 interns from Tufts at BlackRock every summer, and after a few years once students who’ve interned there for several summer start graduating, to hire swathes of the graduating class interested in finance – I know this because he gave a presentation about his intentions to us), a Tufts alum at Goldman Sachs recruited on campus, hiring two summer interns, D.E. Shaw came to campus recruiting & interviewing for both internships and full-time positions, and the managing director/Tufts alum of Greenhill & Co., a New York investment boutique, came to campus to talk to TFG and interview job applicants.</p>
<p>That’s just opportunities that are new this semester, and it’s only the things TFG did. The Economics Department and Economics Society have their own connections and sponsor their own events that, since I’m not interested in pursuing finance as a career, I know nothing about. There may be a lot fewer total opportunities available at Tufts, but what you have to remember is that only a small handful of Tufts kids in a given year have any interest in a finance career, so there’s less competition for the opportunities that do exist.</p>
<p>You wrote
directly after two posts about undergrad business, so I assumed you were referring to it.</p>
<p>You don’t need any networking to obtain a great IB job. I have friends who did completely unrelated stuff during their UG summers and were able to find six figure starting jobs on wall street directly after college.</p>