<p>I got accepted to UCSC for Business Management Economics and into UCR for Business Administration. My plan is to go into either Accounting or Management. I can't decide which program to choose! From what I understand UCR's business program is more extensive than UCSC's, but on the other hand, UCSC is ranked higher and much closer to home. I'd value any opinion on this! Thanks!</p>
<p>(p.s. I'm posting this on both the UCSC and UCR forums, for comparison)</p>
<p>UCSC is barely ranked higher, and UCR is ranked higher in many more respects. UCR is the only UC that is still growing rapidly in reputation. Forbes ranked it as one of the top ten up and coming schools in the nation. UCSC has pretty much peaked. UCR’s business program is the largest of the UCs. It has a business school. UCSC does not. You probably won’t find any research opportunities in business at UCSC at all. Recruiters are going to go to a college that is ranked high in their speciality. Recruiters who want BUSINESS majors will go to UCR above even UCLA, because UCR has a good business program. so for business, DEFINETLY UCR over UCSC.</p>
<p>more important though is which college is best for your personality. go visit both schools and see which atmosphere suits you best. it seems that overall, UCR students are happier with their school. lol. go to ucrfml.com and ucscfml.com. when people post negative comments about ucr it usually gets like 20 thumbs downs but on the front page of ucscfml.com theres a negative comment about ucsc and it got 8 times more thumbs ups than thumbs downs haha.</p>
<p>but yeah…for business, i think it would be a poor poor decision to go to ucsc.</p>
<p>I think it would be better if you post this question on “University of California - General” so you can obtain broad and general information about each school without any bias from each side.</p>
<p>However, it is actually true that UCSC does not have its own business school and it is not really known for its business economics programs. Even if they rank higher than UCR in terms of rankings, they are mostly known for humanities and sciences. If you want to go into an accounting field, I think UCR might be the best choice because UCSC does not even offer accounting field.</p>
<p>Thanks guys for the input! @linoch yeah I posted this same question in the General discussion as well.</p>
<p>HAHA at x8equalsDtilde post. It’s ridiculous. We are right near the Sylicon Valley and have tons of opportunities for internships and jobs. Not to mention the Big Four accounting firms heavily recruit here. To be honest, I’ve been to both UCR and UCSC and UCR’s campus is boring. We have one of the most beautiful campuses in the world according to Forbes. And you saying that UCR is “above UCLA” in business is laughable at best. UCLA’s business is better than UCR and UCSC and I will admitt that and I’m at UCSC.</p>
<p>In last fours year UCR has hired a lot USC Marshall Business faculty including David W. Stewart, since then the business school have been growing in its ranking ready fast.</p>
<p>UCR>>>>>>>>>>>>>UCSC</p>
<p>I am in the exact same situation as you; accepted UCSC business management economics and UCR business administration.</p>
<p>At first, I seriously was going to SIR as soon as I was accepted to UCSC. But the surprising thing is, I’ve decided to go to Riverside.</p>
<p>How I came to my conclusion:</p>
<p>Research: I thoroughly checked out each college, and especially as to why UCR is deemed ‘a bad school’, which I found out is only a temporary moniker. UCR is very up and coming, with it’s med school coming in next year, plus Riverside no longer being a referral school (from what I’ve come across freshman admit GPA is now 3.5+ as far as being a shoe in goes).
I went to both colleges, visiting is key. Both are very different campuses.
Personally Santa Cruz disappointed me, it was so dark and forest-y and each college is so isolated, not what I picture as my college experience. Riverside was actually really beautiful and as everyone states “park-like” and there’s an actual Coffee Bean cafe on campus! haha!
MOST IMPORTANT: at least what made my final decision… Pick up the General Catalog from both campuses, you can have them mailed to you as well for like fifteen bucks (a fifteen bucks well spent might I add). Look at the breadth of classes they offer for your major, especially your concentration.</p>
<p>Other minor factors: Location
I live in southern California, Riverside would keep me closer to my family.
Rent, way cheaper in Riverside.
My friend goes to Davis and she wishes that she would have gone to a southern California college, this is also because her family/friends are in socal. So keep that in mind.</p>
<p>End all: Either one, if you put effort in your studies, you will receive an excellent education.</p>
<p>& the teaching staff from both schools is impressive. Most of the professors went to: Brown, Harvard, Standford, Yale, Rice, Princeton, Cornell, UC: LA, Berkeley & Riverside & Santa Cruz =) </p>
<p>-nikibeee</p>
<p>“HAHA at x8equalsDtilde post. It’s ridiculous. We are right near the Sylicon Valley and have tons of opportunities for internships and jobs.”</p>
<p>@ProteinMan
tons of opportunities for internships and jobs because it’s near Sylicon Valley? I’m pretty sure UCSC is not THAT close to Sylicon Valley. it’s actually closer for Stanford, Berkeley, and San Jose State University. From what I know, those students are the ones who compete to get internships there. I’m not saying that UCSC students don’t get internship opportunities there. I’m saying that UCSC is not that close to Silicon Valley compared to Stanford, UCB, and San Jose State. By the way, you spelled Silicon wrong. </p>
<p>And as a UCR student, I know some people chose UCR over UCSD, UCI, Cal Poly or UC Davis for business major. I don’t know if anyone turned down UCLA to go to UCR, but I know many people actually respect UCR’s business program. UCLA doesn’t offer undergraduate business administration major by the way. Only grad school.</p>
<p>x8equalsDtilde, UCSC is actually ranked a lot higher than UCR overall (UCSC is ranked #72, UCR is ranked #94) because of their science (except for entomology and plant biology) and humanities programs. But in terms of business and engineering, UCR is indisputably better than UCSC.</p>
<p>thanks for the tip on looking at the catalogs, nikkebee! i’ll definitely be doing that.</p>
<p>my family lives much closer to UCSC, so it’s a tougher decision for me, but thanks again for your insight!</p>
<p>protein man - ucla doesnt even have a full fledged business school, and recruiters in the silicon valley will go to berkeley, not UCSC, because berkeley has a business school and ucsc does not.</p>
<p>recruiters in socal will go to UCR because it has the biggest business of all the UCs and in the inland empire.</p>
<p>linoch - thanks. both are in the lower half of the top 100 in the nation, so i personally don’t see that as a big gap.</p>
<p>proteinman - beauty is subjective. I’d rather go to a college that looks like a college than a forest.</p>
<p>id say go with UCR</p>
<p>I am most likley going their in the Fall of 2011 because of their Business Program!</p>
<p>The student body, from experience, at UCR cares very little about academics. They seem to worry more about their social life then their grades. Before people begin to bash my post, I admit that this does not represent the entire student body. This view is based on my experiences with people I have met and knew from high school. Alcohol and partying seem to be the most important areas of their education. To make matters worse, these individuals are not stupid. Many of the students at UCR are as capable as any other UC student. The problem with UCR is the atmosphere. Plain and simple. </p>
<p>However, UCSC is a school with a comparable reputation. I went to UCSC for the first two-years of my undergrad and transfered to UCLA. I must say, my time at UCSC was amazing, but many students fell into the pitfalls similar to those at UCR. Partying and ignoring their studies. However, Santa Cruz has a very nurturing undergrad program. Professors were always friendly, advisors always willing to help and the campus is beautiful beyond belief. I am not going to deny my bias, but if you were to choose santa cruz you would not regret it. The skills I picked up from my two-years helped me excel at UCLA where I am graduating with the highest honors.</p>