<p>I'm really confused about UIUC's business versus engineering reputation... i think most of the posts on this forum have been about UIUC's business school (which I've never heard about). Outwardly, I would have thought the hype would be surrounded more around the engineering program than anything else since it is so highly ranked. Yet, there have been talks about how the business school's acceptance rate is much lower than the engineering school's acceptance rate. </p>
<p>I don't mean to diss the business school, but from an OOS's perspective (i'm fron PA), numbers are all I've got, and numbers-wise, the engineering school > business school. What is the hype over the school's business program?</p>
<p>It’s definitely on the rise… it is ranked in top 25 in the nation, accounting is ranked 2, finance is ranked 10 and other programs are ranked in top 15… the business school has been getting better and better each year and they even opened up a new 60 million dollar business facility… It is the most selective college within UIUC and is known for having the top students along with engineering.</p>
<p>Looking at selectivity as a sign of quality of a program is just asinine. Sure, better programs are more selective, but the College of Engineering’s acceptance rate is artificially high since it is a self-selective process. Far more people, especially unqualified ones, apply to the business school and get denied, while there are not that many people who are grossly underqualified who apply to the College of Engineering.</p>
<p>That said, the College of Business is very good, especially accounting and finance. Still, nationally and internationally, the College of Engineering is still more renowned.</p>
<p>definitely agree with Boneh3ad, UIUC business school has a decent reputation in the Midwest, but its engineering school enjoys a nationwide,even world-wide reputation.</p>
<p>I agree with boneh3ad as well. UIUC’s engineering school is very well known at the undergraduate and graduate level. Thier CS and Engineering are both ranked in the top 5 with nearly all engineering specialties ranked in the top 10. I don’t think Illinois business has the same reputation. Many Illinois alum in engineering have created corporations like Siebel, Youtube, Paypal, etc., and they feed well into thier well respected engineering grad programs as well as those of Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and Gatech.</p>
<p>The school I am going to, which is a small private engineering college in MA also has a very high acceptance rate though it’s average SAT is around 2060 (I bet Illinois’s COE’s ACT equivalent average is a bit higher). In thier college of computer science, the ACT average is around a 33 with above a 34 in math. Thier cs department gets around $46 million in research spending for a 1000 person department, which is very good. They get similarly high research spending budgets in thier other departments as well.</p>
<p>UIUC engineering is world renowned. Among engineering powerhouses UIUC is right up there with the best. That being said UIUC business is a solid school, but lacking the same level of prestige and recruitment that the enginering school garners. Again i agree completely with bon3head, selectivity and prestige are not correlated entities. All you need is to look at the typical student profile at UIUC COE. It outdoes that of business.</p>
<p>+1 for engineering (USA Today [i think] it is ranked around 5th in engineering schools)</p>