<p>I have a decision to make! I've been accepted to both schools' business programs and live in Illinois. Ohio State has offered me a place in the honors program and $13000 a year, bringing the cost right down to Illinois' expense. Illinois' program is more prestigious but Ohio State's academics are up and coming, and appears to be a more fun school overall. Thoughts? thank you!</p>
<p>You are correct.</p>
<p>lol thanks for the input…anyone else?</p>
<p>I like barrons’ answer. It looks like a toss up. Go where you think best.</p>
<p>thanks for the reply.</p>
<p>does anyone have personal experience with either of these programs?</p>
<p>Does the scholarship at OSU require a minimum GPA to keep it for all four year?</p>
<p>If so, are you sure you can maintain that GPA? (At most colleges, it’s a lot harder to maintain a given GPA than it was for the same GPA in high school.)</p>
<p>Whereas, if you enroll at Illinois, the price you pay for tuition in your freshman year is guaranteed for four years (although room and board can go up, and no doubt will).</p>
<p>Definitely Illinois. It’s not even close here.</p>
<p>Illinois. </p>
<p>OSU’s academics are not up and coming. They’re actually declining if anything. What they did was take advantage of the fact that everybody in Ohio wants to go there, so they bumped up the difficulty of admission. I lived in Ohio for 15 years. I know a lot of bimbos who have gone to Ohio State.</p>
<p>It would be a foolish decision not to attend Illinois. Plus you’re practically right next to Chicago. Which city do you think has more business opportunity? Columbus, Ohio, or Frickin Chicago??!?</p>
<p>Once again, Illinois. No brainer.</p>
<p>^^^What he said. ;-)</p>
<p>^ What he said is not only nonsense, but it exhibits a woeful ignorance of geography.</p>
<p>Champaign is hardly “practically right next to Chicago.” Look at a map, why don’t you, before making these kinds of claims. Columbus is the same distance from Cleveland that Champaign is from Chicago, and significantly closer to Cincinnati. And anybody who thinks there is more opportunity in Columbus than Champaign-Urbana clearly knows nothing about either place. Columbus had 6 firms in the Fortune 500 headquartered in the city. Champaign-Urbana? None. </p>
<p>From Wikipedia (FWIW): “MarketWatch ranked Columbus and its metro area as the No. 7 best place in the country to operate a business in 2008. In 2007, the city was ranked No. 3 in the United States by fDi magazine for “Cities of the Future”, and No. 4 for most business-friendly in the country. Columbus was ranked as the seventh strongest economy in the United States in 2006, and the best in Ohio, according to Policom Corp.[85] In 2009, the Columbus metropolitan area’s GDP was $90 billion, up from $85.5 billion in 2006,[87] $75.43 billion in 2005, and $69.98 billion in 2001.”</p>
<p>I know nothing about the strength of the business program at OSU and next to nothing about that at UIUC. But to choose UIUC over OSU based on where the school is located would be ludicrous.</p>
<p>^^^^^While I agree that U-C is not very close to Chicago, it is much closer than Columbus. Chicago is a world class city and a huge magnet for business and all of it’s enterprises. There is nothing in Ohio, or anywhere in the midwest for that matter, that compares to Chicago in this matter. Furthermore, the OP is from ILLINOIS, not Ohio. It doesn’t make sense to go to a lesser business school when you can attend a better one that has much stronger connections to his home state.</p>
<p>“Columbus is the same distance from Cleveland that Champaign is from Chicago, and significantly closer to Cincinnati.”</p>
<p>…and that is supposed to mean something to someone who is from Illinois?</p>
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<p>There is plenty of opportunity in Ohio. </p>
<p>Total Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Chicago: 8</p>
<p>Total Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus: 16</p>
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<p>I have seen no **evidence<a href=“as%20opposed%20to%20unsupported%20opinions”>/b</a> that OSU is a “lesser business school” than UIUC. </p>
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<p>Someone from Illinois who is not so provincial as to look two states east, yes, indeed.</p>
<p>From OP,</p>
<p>“Ohio State has offered me a place in the honors program and $13000 a year, bringing the cost right down to Illinois’ expense.”</p>
<p>“does anyone have personal experience with either of these programs?”</p>
<p>*From “Tim Cantebrury,” *</p>
<p>Excerpt:</p>
<p>“Since you are in the Honors program at Ohio State you would have the option to participate in the Honors Business Learning Community (BHLC) your freshman year. This is a community of about 20-30 business students who live together their freshman year and are placed on a fast track for one of the three Honors Business graduation tracks. The three tracks are Contract, Cohort and Accounting. Honors Accounting is exactly what it sounds like but gives you TONS of accounting experience and help immensely in making you a CPA. Contract is the less prestigious of Cohort/Contract. It gives you the opportunity to take honors classes within Fisher and graduate with an Honors diploma. Cohort provides you with a very intimate experience with 20 of your classmates. You take all of your business classes with the same students your Jr year and beginning of Sr year. You get access to the best professors and internships. I have many close friends who are members of the Cohort program and have accepted positions at places such as Boeing (Seattle), Epic Software (Madison), Dow Chemical, JP Morgan, Deloitte, and GM. Beyond this, the networking opportunities at OSU dwarf those of Miami(OH) and IU. We have a large number of alumni in almost all areas of the country. This never hurts you when looking for a job/internship. We also have partnerships with over 20 companies who guarantee internships to OSU students every year. Meaning that if you want an internship at say Coke or Boeing you are essentially only competing against other OSU students to “get your foot in the door” instead of students from all universities national.”</p>
<p>Best of Luck & Go Bucks!! :)</p>
<p>Chicago’s unemployment is much worse than Columbus’ also. My husband and I left Chicago to move to Columbus for stable employment. My daughter is a sophomore at OSU and has many friends who attend from Illinois. She doesn’t know one that is unhappy with their choice of going to Ohio State. </p>
<p>My former dentist from Chicago has a son who is coming to Columbus for a summer internship. Didn’t get one in Chicago. Too many kids applied. Working for one of the largest banks in the country probably will be a good experience for him.</p>
<p>To the person who said he knows lots of bimbos who go to OSU, we likewise know many going to Illinois. They are everywhere.</p>
<p>OP you have to go to both schools and figure out where you think you will best fit in.</p>
<p>vote for Illinois.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for all the input! I love both schools but will officially be attending the university of illinois next year. I appreciate all the replies!</p>
<p>Definitely visit both schools to see which is a better fit. I have several friends in the business program here at Ohio State, and it is a competitive program. You have to be accepted into the Fisher College of Business after your freshman year. I am in the honors program and it provides many opportunities for students both in and out of the classroom–priority scheduling, wider range of classes available, more prestigious degree, scholarship and extracurricular opportunities.</p>