<p>I've been reading for a while & i liked what i've seen. This is my 1st post & i need some major help. I'm a senior and applied to 6 schools. So far, I got rejected by UM, accepted to UF & FIU, and i'm still waiting on USF, UCF, & FSU. My top three are FSU, UF, & UCF. But i don't have no idea where to go from there because I haven't taken visits to any of these schools except for fiu since i live in miami.</p>
<p>I want to study business administration or finance in college and am looking a university with the best business oppurtunities: networking, internships, jobs after graduation, recruitment, & a great career placement center. Which of these 3 universities do you think would be the best for me as a business major?
I know about rankings & all that so I want to hear more of opinions & what u think.</p>
<p>For my opinions, I love UF & I'm getting free tuition for the summer but I don't know about the small town gainseville setting. I'm more of a city kid.
UCF: I like the location in Orlando & the middle of florida, the modern facilities and the business opportunities in a big city
FSU: tallahassee, not too big and not too small. but a lil too far away from miami. i won't rule this school out because of that.</p>
<p>I don't know a lot of these schools since i haven't visited so any information or opinions about the schools and specifically, the business programs will help a lot.</p>
<p>P.S. This is all I got until I could actually visit.</p>
<p>Take it from me, FSU's business school is very well respected. Honestly, all 3 schools will give you similar opportunities upon graduation. It all comes down to your skills, personality, experience, and how well you interview. Unless you graduated from an elite business school like UPenn or Harvard, the school you attended becomes a wash. </p>
<p>My advice would be to visit all 3 schools before you make a decision.</p>
<p>BTW, there's been many cases where students get accepted to UF and rejected from UM or FSU. I know its hard for the "gator nation" to accept this fact, but it happens more than you would imagine.</p>
<p>The Gator Nation will afford much better business contacts outside of the Panhandle than either of the others.</p>
<p>How did you get in UF when UM said no?</p>
<p>Well for one he lives in the state so that makes admission a tad bit easier. Also, UM has tougher admissions standards than UF. Its simply a fact, both are good schools, but UM is ranked higher for its academics.</p>
<p>FSU and UF are the flagship schools in Florida and people commonly confuse them, especially outside Florida. FSU MBA is correct. The "Gator Nation" is a marketing joke.</p>
<p>Visit all the schools and speak with faculty before you commit.</p>
<p>Neither UM nor FSU even made the "consider" list at our home as my daughter decides what school to attend in the fall (nor UCF for that matter). I acknowledge there are those convinced UM is equal to or nearly equal to UF in academic quality. But there are also those in The Gator Nation who are convinced UF is under-rated by USNWR by 49 positions. Those positions seem to me nearly equally untenable.</p>
<p>UF's focus on choice academic areas: engineering, medicine, law, even agriculture, together with its massive and active alumni network which swells every time there's a new admittee, makes The Gator Nation THE social network in Florida (Charlie Crist notwithstanding; if you doubt this, look at those in power positions in the state over the long haul -- outside of education, UF dominates). The Gator Nation is no joke.</p>
<p>FSU, admittedly, is probably the better place to go if you want to be a meteorologist, a criminologist, a teacher, or a musician.</p>
<p>This comes from no fan of UF, but married to a Gator and with lots of relatives on both sides of the UF/FSU divide.</p>
<p>All you are to UF is part of it's expansive "Gator Nation". The school is highly overrated, and outside of Florida, the name is not very well respected. Try UCF, or FSU.</p>
<p>Regarding UM vs. UF selectivity, a comparison of Comon Datasets show selectivity is a wash between the two...UM having slightly higher SATs, while UF having more students in the Top-10%.....so obviously there will be cases of some students being admitted to one and not the other. Multiply any probability distributions and you will see you'd have to have wildly different selectivity standards for this not to be true.</p>
<p>I agree the OP should visits the schools in question, but the best choices from an academic perspective would be UF or FSU. Fit trumps the differences in rankings, though most objective observers would say UF is the better choice, if for no other reason then it draws the best students of that group.</p>
<p>I would go to FSU, especially if you like the city better. The business programs I would say are about equal at both, so I would visit both and choose which you like better.</p>
<p>thank u for all the responses! are there any recent graduates or current students from these schools that can comment on the GOOD & BAD of each school and there business programs. Like how did the job searching process go after they graduated or how good is the teaching/classroom quality, things like that.</p>
<p>i want to get all the information i can possibly get:)</p>
<p>You really need to visit the schools and decide for yourself. In general, whenever you see people vigorously declaring that you should go to "school a"...especially when that school is lower ranked...and further, they know nothing about you as an individual, you really have to question whether they are pushing an agenda that is not in your best interest. Go to the schools and visit and see were you would best fit and make your decision. You know what the rankings say. Now you need to figure out what school would most likely inspire you to do your best.</p>
<p>They're both good schools. But at this point, you probably won't be able to go to FSU anyway, considering you didn't make the first deadline. It get's really hard to get into FSU after the first admissions deadline way back in October. </p>
<p>But if you get into both, make sure to visit them both and decide for yourself which school fits you better.</p>