<p>Hey guys, I'm in a bind here. I'm an international student (also a transfer from a jc) in california and these are the two schools that I need to choose between right now. </p>
<p>My major would be business, and I want to choose the school that would have the best chances of me getting a job after graduation since I want to stay in California. My other criteria for choosing would be: which one is considered a "better" program, which one looks better for grad school, and which one is better known, etc... in case I need to move. Location makes no difference to me either. Thanks alot for the help!!</p>
<p>Congratulations on being accepted by these two (2) fine schools. All your work paid off.</p>
<p>Chapman U’s undergraduate Business School is Ranked #60 in the nation by Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Pepperdine University’s Business School did not even make one of the top 132 undergraduate Business Schools in this ranking.</p>
<p>That’s good to hear and thanks for the reply. What concerns me though is that Chapman is not even on the US News ranking at all, I wonder what this means because its only rated for the west. I also want to pursue a masters degree in the future and I don’t know if name recognition means a lot to go to a good graduate school. I mean I plan on killing it and getting all A’s, would that override going somewhere with less recognition for a good MBA school?</p>
<p>The answer to your question is that like National Universities, Regional Universities offer a full range of undergraduate programs and provide graduate education at the master’s level. However, they differ by offering few, if any, doctoral programs. So because Chapman U does not offer a lot of doctoral programs presently that is why it is not under the National Universities rankings but under the Regional Universities rankings:</p>
<p>I know many top students have gone to liberal art colleges for their undergraduate degrees but switch to big Universities when going after their Doctorates degrees. Some of the reasons they decide to attend liberal art college such as Chapman U is that they have much small student size classes and you learn from caring professors/real mentors as opposed to large universities where professors are unable to care about you because there are just so many students with many classes being taught by teaching assistants not professors. When one goes after a Doctorates degree in graduate school at a large University at that point the class sizes become smaller and you are then able to have a caring professors/real mentors available to you.</p>
<p>I hope this is of some help to you R4dom. Remember your original question was which of the two colleges has the best undergraduate business school program. Hopefully others will reply to your questions to give you other viewpoints and ideas. All the best to you.</p>
<p>OP, have you toured these schools? Something you need to know: Pepperdine has a very strict fundamentalist Christian atmosphere. If you are Christian and very religious – I am talking about mandatory chapel services weekly – you will fit in well there. Chapman is not like that. Just be sure you know this before choosing.</p>
<p>I have toured both of them and i like them both. I can handle the christian atmosphere, its not a big factor in my decision. My immediate concern is employment statistics as I am an international student and would love to live in California after I graduate so I need to get a work visa. The thing is, if i choose Pepperdine I would probably have to go there longer than 2 years because there are alot of GE’s that I’ve completed that don’t transfer. I’m not sure it would be worth the extra tuition to go there… Any opinions?</p>
<p>I’d choose Chapman, but then I’m biased The business program there is very respected, and Orange County is a vibrant business community, a great place for an internship and jobs. </p>
<p>I’m leaning towards it, they’re very good with transfer credits and scholarships. Pepp requires so many extra ge’s and I’m not going to school for ge’s</p>
The business program there is very respected, and Orange County is a vibrant business community, a great place for an internship and jobs. </p>