<p>I am looking to study business, and I want to go to a school with high prestige and numerous job options when I graduate. I might also be looking to go to law school..what order would you guys put these schools in, in terms of prestige/business school/options after college?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Prestige Ranking for your four:
<p>I dont know where Medman came up with Bucknell’s prestige ranking but it seems unfounded</p>
<p>Villanova is the most prestigous for business schools…in 2011 businessweek ranked Villanova as #7, Wake forest as #19 and miami and bucknell were not in top 50. in 2012 Villanova was ranked #13 and wake forest was #19 again. Bucknell and Miami are definitely the lowest choice if you want to study business. </p>
<p>Companies have a long track record of hiring Villanova grads…the numbers are on the villanova website, but many companies such as JP morgan chase, Prudential (exec. vice president went to Nova), Pricewater house coopers, etc.
I would imagine Wake Forest does similarly as well, however, Villanova has strong Philly connections where WF does not have a philly type city nearby. </p>
<p>For overall academic prestige I would rank the following:
<p>The SAT scores at all four are in between 1310 and 1315, and so they are very compatible schools overall. However, if you take a poll among employers and the genral populace, say in California, most would know Miami, then wakeforest and villanova, and then would say what is a bucknell?</p>
<p>I am talking about prestige in academia, and I was referring to general institution prestige and not specifically business. Bucknell is a second-tier national liberal arts college on the order of Bryn Mawr, Holy Cross, Kenyon, Lafayette, Tirinity (CT), etc.–not first tier like Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, and Swarthmore, and not quite Wesleyan, Hamilton, Colgate, Colby and Bates. Wake Forest is a solid national university with an improving reputation and a strong liberal arts tradition, thought of in the same category as Tufts, Boston College, William and Mary. Miami is a national university but the next tier down, in the Case Western, George Washington, Tulane group. Villanova is a REGIONAL university that only recently has had more national appeal. It is the perennial Catholic backup college to ND, Georgetown, and even BC, and the campus culture reflects that. It certainly is a good school, but on the order of other good regional schools–Loyola (MD), Providence College–and academic quality and student quality comparable to the Miami, George Washington, Tulane group.</p>
<p>In terms of business schools, everyone knows that the BusinessWeek rankings are ridiculous–Notre Dame ahead of Wharton, Emory ahead of MIT—for real?</p>
<p>^if businessweeks rankings are bull then why wouldn’t us news be considered bull?? Perhaps Villanova then is not just a regional university…Also the methodology of usnews does not put a school in the regional list because it lacks national reputation but by what degrees and how many of certain degrees are offered. </p>
<p>You have also tried to link villanova up with other schools in the regional list (Loyola, PC, etc)…in academic quality loyola and providence cannot come near villanova. The SAT scores alone at villanova are 150 pts higher than at Providence. Georgetown on the other hand is 90pts higher than Villanova. That means Villanova and georgetown are more peer schools than villanova and providence. What do you think of that? My point being providence isnt near villanova, and hence the academic reputation at villanova definitely exceeds that of the other “regional” schools you listed. Also, since you say bucknell is a second tier school then let’s compare Holy cross, Colby, etc to Bucknell. Since villanova a) has higher SAT scores than HC (although only by a small margin), b) has a higher GPA, c) has more merit scholars, d) more students accepted to both choose nova, then we can see that Bucknells peer school (Holy Cross) is not as reputable as Villanova, I.e placing Villanova the same if not better than Bucknell.</p>