<p>I have been accepted to these three schools and currently I need help deciding between them. I am interested in studying business, but I am open to other studies. With regard to these three schools how are their undergraduate business programs? Do they open doors to internships, etc. I am also factoring in quality of college experience: weather, social life, professors. Feel free to give me your insight and I appreciate it!</p>
<p>These are all great schools, of course. Berkeley and Michigan are going to be more known world-wide and nationally if for no other reason than they are large state schools with reputations for academic excellence. Tulane is also known as an excellent school, but just won’t be known to as wide an audience as the other two. Will this make it harder to get internships or a job? Not at all. There are plenty of companies that come to Tulane, more all the time. That combined with your own initiatives should lead to various opportunities.</p>
<p>I saw on the Michigan thread where you asked this that the person was dismissive of Tulane. That is just ignorant, quite frankly. Tulane has extremely strong programs in a number of areas, especially (but not limited to) finance, entrepreneurship, energy trading, and portfolio analysis. Also you should factor in the size of the schools and the way they are structured. For example, at Tulane if you want to double major it is very easy. You don’t have to worry about being accepted to a separate school, like you do at Michigan with Ross.</p>
<p>It would be wrong to tell you that Michigan (and I assume Cal) don’t have great programs that attract a lot of employers. Their sheer size helps with that of course, but also their quality. Tulane has the quality as well, and with various exciting programs like the Energy Trading Competition, the M&A conference, the Burkenroad Reports and more, it has a ton of upward momentum. If you feel like you like the overall atmosphere at Tulane better, you should strongly consider it. If you do well in school and interview decently, you can be as successful coming out of Tulane as these other schools.</p>
<p>Another vote for Tulane here! Let’s beat the threads on the other 2 schools forums. huge state u can never compare with smaller private universities like Tulane.
If u like the huge schools atmosphere, then go ahead. But as academically speaking, I think Tulane is way under rated. And I am personally choosing Tulane over Duke!</p>
<p>@fallenchemist one major factor in deciding is cost, which Tulane is very accommodating compared to the other schools. Also I have heard that Tulane’s finance program is world class. However in Tulane is not in the recent rankings? I am not sure if its due to lack of response from alumni, etc. I am going to visit Tulane in 2 weeks, so hopefully I will get a hands on experience and see if I am a match for the school. Thanks </p>
<p>@guhengshuo thanks for your input, I have heard great things about Tulane so I will keep that in mind.</p>
<p>Seriously ??Even comparing Tulane with Berkeley and Umich is ridiculous. Show some respect please guys</p>
<p>One thing I would like to point out is it’s extremely competitive to be admitted to business school in Berkeley. In Tulane, it’s not an issue at all. In fact, it’s possible to double or even triple major at Tulane and still be able to graduate in four years or less. My son turned down many UC schools to go to Tulane and he does not regret at all. As a Junior, he will be interning for a major derivative/hedge fund company this summer in NYC and he is not even a business major…</p>
<p>On the other hand, turning down Duke to go to Tulane will not be an easy decision for most of people, I’m afraid.</p>
<p>S2 turned down UC Berkeley for Tulane. Issues of class size, size of the schools, and general campus feel were the determinants. He really liked the close connection with faculty, and of course NOLA.</p>
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You mean like you are showing respect? Actually I was quite respectful of those programs. Maybe you could show some class and do the same. Let’s look at just a couple of facts here.</p>
<p>25-75 percentiles for SAT and ACT, CR, M, W, ACT Composite:</p>
<p>UMich:
590-690, 640-750, 610-710, 27-31</p>
<p>Cal:
590-710, 640-760, 610-720, 27-32</p>
<p>Tulane:
630-720, 630-700, 630-720, 29-32</p>
<p>Strange that a school that supposedly cannot even compare would have students with generally higher scores. And are you familiar with the Presidential Scholars program from the Department of Education? Only 2 academic winners per state plus DC and some people abroad, about 115 academic winners in total for the entire country, which has about 3.5 million graduating seniors. 2 of those 115 are attending Tulane, Michigan got one and Berkeley struck out this year. As has been said on here and elsewhere, numerous students decide on Tulane over higher ranked schools. Does that prove anything? Not much, except that some very bright students choose Tulane. Maybe they know something you don’t.</p>
<p>Rather than running down other schools, how about we focus on the positives of each and I am quite sure the OP can make a decision from there. As had been pointed out, we are dealing with 3 very different environments when it comes to the combination of size, weather, sports scene, cultural surroundings, etc. I can guarantee you that all three are exceedingly capable of providing a first rate academic experience.</p>
<p>Are you really saying that the 10-12 business courses one would take at Michigan or Berkeley to get an undergraduate degree are so superior to what you would get at Tulane? Funny, I thought cost accounting was pretty much the same everywhere, as is Marketing 101. Once you get past the basics, as I have said Tulane has some very special opportunities. For example, those Burkenroad Reports I mentioned are full analyses of mid-cap companies throughout the region that are absolutely used by the top trading firms. The students go out and thoroughly research the companies, interview executives, and analyze their markets. Do Berkeley and Michigan have great programs within their business schools as well? I am sure they do. Tell the OP about them and let him decide what sounds like it fits him better, along with all the other characteristics of the schools. You have presented no facts about their programs, just saying so far Tulane is inferior and the others are great. Not so persuasive.</p>
<p>senior557 - Forget about the rankings. As has been discussed on numerous threads to death, they are subjective, inconsistent, and ridiculous. Employers pay no attention to them. In the general rankings Tulane is still suffering from the statistics post-Katrina, because 6 year graduation rates account for over 25% of the scoring. Katrina was 5 years ago. Tulane’s graduation rates and retention rates are now much higher, but that won’t show up for a few years yet because of the way USNWR calculates things. As far as business school rankings, I can think of little more absurd. How can Tulane be ranked 10th by the Financial Times of London for Finance but not get a similar ranking for some others? Who knows.</p>
<p>By the time you graduate you will be wondering why you even cared about rankings, they are so meaningless. It is about what school provides the best environment for you. You have three great choices that are so different. Try to forget about all the noise of people saying they are “best”, a completely undefinable thing for colleges, and focus on what is best for you based on solid, factual information and your own preferences.</p>
<p>Strongly Agree! With everything above Fallenchemist stated, and many special programs offered at Tulane, it actually wasn’t hard to turn down Duke, and also many of the top engineering schools I got in. I’ll be majoring in Finance and trying to get in Creative Premedical program, which maybe the 2 best major/program Tulane offers. How would I be at any disadvantage than my friends who go to “world class ranking” schools with similar academics and fewer opportunities? The pedagogical style of many teachers at Tulane definitely is different than giant state school. It’s up to you to say what you prefer! Personally, I’d rather get some world famous professor teaching only 20 of us and get to know me! 
- just some input from a student gotten into 7 great schools, wait listed by 5 including Harvard.</p>