<p>Ok, I have a few questions…</p>
<li><p>Job Prospects - what % of graduates from each school get a job after college (don’t tell me that USC has good networking, ive heard that a million times)? What is the average starting salary of a graduate in a certain field from each university (who earns more). This all takes place in SoCal.</p></li>
<li><p>Which school has a larger representation of its graduates in the top medical and top business GRADUATE schools after they complete their undergrad? Does one school deliver more accomplished students to a fine graduate school than the other?</p></li>
<li><p>If one plans to go to business graduate school, is a economic major in UCLA more distinguished than a business major from USC of any sort?</p></li>
<li><p>Do the students of one school generally receive a higher GPA than the students of the other?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>I am pondering all these same questions. It's hard to say which school has a better undergrad business, as UCLA's bizecon is never rated (since its in humanities, not actually a school.) Marshall boasts a 9th ranked undergrad business in the nation (pretty damn good), but Anderson (UCLA's b grad school) is then ranked higher than Marshall for graduate programs. I'm assuming that the stats on how many kids get in where or what for grad school would be really hard to get. From what I've heard the same companies recruit at both places when they come down to LA. One thing to consider though is that UCLA's Bizecon degree requires a certain primary score (gpa and whatever else factors in) and is very competitive. I hear companies look a lot more at the bizecon kids than the regular econ kids who don't make biz econ. But if you are interested in grad school, I have no idea how grad schools look on Marshall vs. Bizecon/econ, maybe someone with personal experience can throw some answers out. I know I'd really like to hear them too.</p>
<p>Good questions. Sorry, but I don't know the answer to any of them. Also, what percentage of USC or UCLA students go to Caltech, MIT, Stanford for grad school?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/mba/brief/mbarank_brief.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/mba/brief/mbarank_brief.php</a> </p>
<p>UCLA Anderson is #11
USC Marshall is #26 </p>
<p>avg starting salary @ UCLA: $87,022
avg starting salary @ USC: $73,561 </p>
<p>i think you will have the same opportunity for sucess at either.</p>
<p>Out of undergrad, Marshall grads compete with the BizEcon kids for the jobs. As someone mentioned earlier, econ is below these two - reasonable as they probably couldn't dissect a balance sheet.</p>
<p>For b-school, there would be no way to compare as the major qualifier is work experience.</p>
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<li>If one plans to go to business graduate school, is a economic major in UCLA more distinguished than a business major from USC of any sort?</li>
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<p>Go to which school you'll feel most comfortable at.</p>
<p>Neither is more distinguished. B-schools look at work experience most - much more than what your college major was. Therefore, the argument then becomes which major will lead to better work experience. As argued on another post, bizecon is basically equivalent to Marshall bus. admin.</p>
<p>How about engineering?</p>
<p>Undergrad I think they're about the same though USC's has been in the news lately for receiving 54 million, getting named, opening a new state-of-the-art building, etc.</p>
<p>Grad, USC is ranked 6th (above Caltech!). I think UCLA is somewhere in the 20's though I emphasize think.</p>
<p>Is this new building already open and functioning, for students in Fall of 2005?</p>
<p>Yeah: <a href="http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2005/2005_02_02_tutor.htm%5B/url%5D">http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2005/2005_02_02_tutor.htm</a></p>
<p>Many would argue it's on par with Popovich, the graduate business school building and former titleholder of most impressive hall. The soaring lobby is done entirely in marble, the halls have plasma tv's which display engineering school news in between loops of Star Wars, it has its own cafe with gourmet sandwiches and an indoor/outdoor dining area with a cool zen fountain, has really nice student lounges/computer labs, and like 90% of USC buildings, has fast wireless internet throughout.</p>