<p>I saw on the last post that it was a great program. Can any one elaborate. What other schools is it comparable to? How hard are the academics? What are the job possibilities? Good recruitment?</p>
<p>I know very little about UMiami Business Program. Let me share what I know:</p>
<p>It's not a target school for investment bank recruitment.</p>
<p>Their business school is good if you want to stay in the Miami area. However, if your eyes is on Wall Street, good luck. The UM business degree is not well known outside of Miami. For IB, it'll be a very tough to get into that field. </p>
<p>Personally, I would rather go to Brown than UM if I was accepted by both schools because of the long term value of the Brown degree as oppose to UM. I knew of one classmate who transfered out of Harvard to attend UM because she was intimidated by the university. She completed her business degree. However, she's having a hard time finding work on Wall Street.</p>
<p>how does it compare to somthing like george washington university or utexas or rutgers assuming i want to work on wall street? Anyone have any info regarding rutgers? do ibanks recruit there?</p>
<p>As a former student of UM Business, I would definately agree with redlinekid2. If you want to stay in Miami, a UM Business degree is great. Outside of Miami companies, I noticed little (if any) recruitment from any major i-banks or other major corporations. Of course, this does not mean it is impossible to get a job, but it definitely makes it more difficult.</p>
<p>The academics, while not easy, are not that difficult (I sat in on various upper-level finance and accounting courses, in addition to my lower-level business classes). I would think GWU and UTexas business schools would be considered "stronger" schools by recruiters, but I do not know if they recruit at those schools, or at Rutgers (I have heard good things about their business school, though).</p>
<p>one thing i noticed was UBS recruited at Miami Business School.</p>
<p>Rutgers would have a decent rep in the NYC area; a friend has both undergrad and grad business degrees from Rutgers and has been employed at Fed. Reserve, JP Morgan and Duetsche Bank (sp?).</p>
<p>What about the IB recruiting opportunities in miami?</p>
<p>If you're a UM Business student, I strongly recomend that you do a summer internship with Sponsors For Educational Opportunity's Career Program. They place about 80% of their former interns into the bigest Investment Bank around. Also, become a standout through EC activities, and network like crazy. It's the only way you'll get the job your looking for. No one is going to hand the opportunities to you, regardless to what college you go to.</p>
<p>I have a friend whom has a cousin that just graduated from UM's Business school and she already has a job in Wall Street. I guess it differs. Is it true that graduating from UM will ensure you a job in a very successful corporate firm? That same friend stated that since UM's Business School isn't that known, they try to serve the students needs; it would be embarrasing to have such a little amount of students and none have obtained a position in the business world.</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>I'm a current student here at UM (GO CANES! We're gonna kill FSU tomorrow) and I can tell you that as far as iBanking, while not impossible, the situation looks grim. I am a freshman so I don't know too much about the firms that recruit on campus but I have heard of various students that interned at some major firms (morgan stanley, j.p. morgan, ernst & young, merrill lynch, deloitte, Pricewaterhouse, etc.) and most of them actually interned in NY over the summer. Although that sounds great, when you compare the few that got those internships compared to the number of student enrolled in the business school, it's a whole different picture. I am lucky enough to have interned at Ernst & Young my freshman year in high school (Yeah I know that's young but I was amazing with computers, very fluent in english and spanish, and kissed a lot of ass to get the position. It was in Dominican Republic and they no longer have an office there). The best part about that is that I have a, lengthy, letter of recommendation from a partner that got to know me. </p>
<p>^ I was getting off topic there. Since I've known I wanted to do investment banking for a while now (yes, I actually wanted to do it before I came on these boards), I've already started networking like crazy with any one that could help me achieve my goal. Luckily, I found a professor that was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and Smith and Barney. I know they aren't Goldman Sachs but whatever. I want to go into iBanking and that doesn't require me to work at the company with the most prestige (although it would be nice). </p>
<p>Actually, I think Goldman Sachs does come here now. Some girl got picked for their leadership program from here last year so maybe now they realize that UMiami isn't "Suntan U" as everyone would love to think it is. </p>
<p>Ok I'm rambling. If you need anything just PM me.</p>
<p>How exactly does the UM Business School operate? Do you transfer into the Business school after the first 2 years? or 60 credits? (I've been trying to figure it out on their site)
Thanks.</p>
<p>thanks anyway</p>
<p>its direct admit right?</p>
<p>You can be admitted directly or transfer into it after you're there (I believe its very easy to do so too).</p>