USNews? BusinessWeek? YOU rank the undergrad B-Schools

College Search & Selection
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<p>What are the top undergraduate business programs in the U.S?</p>

<p>Rankings are not perfect, but here are the two most referenced ones. (From 2009 and up to the top 10 only. Feel free to update with new 2010 rankings if you have them)</p>

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Here are BusinessWeek's rankings for 2009:</p>

<p>1 - Virginia (McIntire)
2 - Notre Dame (Mendoza)
3 - Pennsylvania (Wharton)
4 - Michigan (Ross)
5 - Brigham Young (Marriott)
6 - UC-Berkeley (Haas)
7 - MIT (Sloan)
8 - Cornell
9 - Emory (Goizueta)
10 - Texas (McCombs)</p>

<p>Questions:
-Is BYU that good? What are your opinions on BYU Marriott as an undergraduate business school? (try to disregard religion)
-Why is Wharton #3? People always say it's the best, so this ranking seems less credible.
-Shouldn't NYU be on this list?

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Here are the rankings from USNews for 2009:</p>

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<li>Pennsylvania (Wharton)</li>
<li>MIT (Sloan)</li>
<li>UC-Berkeley (Haas)</li>
<li>Michigan (Ross)</li>
<li>NYU (Stern)</li>
<li>North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)</li>
<li>Texas (McCombs)</li>
<li>Virginia (McIntire)</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)</li>
<li>USC (Marshall)</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
</ol>

<p>Question:
-What are your opinions on USC Marshall?</p>

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<p>-Which ranking is "better" in your opinions? Obviously, in the business world, prestige matters so take that into consideration as well.</p>

<p>-And how would you rank the top undergraduate business programs?</p>

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<li>Penn and MIT for the right pedigree.</li>
<li>NYU and Cornell for their excellent location.</li>
<li>The other listed schools.</li>
</ol>

<p>Chiefly consider 1. Heavily consider 2. Use 3 as excellent back-ups.</p>

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<p>Cornell for it’s location? Isn’t a bit remote?</p>

<p>My personal b-school choices right now are (1)Penn, (2)NYU, and (3)USC. I don’t like Cornell’s location and MIT is not a “fit” for me. None of the other top business schools appeal to me, except for Berkeley but being OOS, it’s not on my list. So I guess those 3 schools cover each of your 1. 2. 3. haha.</p>

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<p>Cornell for its location. I’m sorry but when I was on a tour of my cousin’s dorm, the lady that worked there emphasized several times that the weather there is brutal during the winter. That pretty much sealed the deal as to why I didn’t apply there. Plus, Ithaca is really, really boring.</p>

<p>If money and admissions weren’t a concern…
1-5
Penn
UT
NYU
Berkeley
USC</p>

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<p>^ nice, that list is almost exactly like mine. exceptions: UT (location) and Berkeley (OOS)</p>

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<p>If admissions and money weren’t a concern, it would be </p>

<p>Penn (Wharton)
UVa (McIntire)
NYU (Stern even though its like a train ride away ughh :()</p>

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^ nice, that list is almost exactly like mine. exceptions: UT (location) and Berkeley (OOS)

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<p>Location? Austin is one of the best places in the country to be a college student!!</p>

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<li>Wharton</li>
<li>Sloan</li>
</ol>

<p>Everything else</p>

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<p>kwu: Cornell for location? I’m pretty sure Ithaca, NY isn’t a hotspot for ibanking internships lol.</p>

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<p>Cornell is in New York, and it has satisfactory name recognition.</p>

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<p>Well Cornell is in upstate NY, in a rural setting. I don’t understand how that’s a favorable location. Name recognition? Definitely. But location? No, unless of course you love rural schools.</p>

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<p>^Exactly. There’s a LOT of New York State, and most of it’s not even close the city. Ithaca’s about 5-6 hours outside of NYC.</p>

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<p>It would also depend on which discipline you are planning on studying. If finance, you may want Wharton, if accounting you may want McCombs, etc.</p>

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<p>Business-weeks rankings are much better, just take a look at the methodologies.</p>

<p>USNews doesn’t even mention alot of the top schools such as Brig young, wake forest, villanova, and BC.</p>

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<p>The solid top five:</p>

<p>Wharton, MIT-Sloan, Berkeley-Haas, Michigan-Ross & NYU-Stern</p>

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<p>High school kids get all hung up on the rankings of business schools, but most high school students have NO idea what it actually means to major in business and what the courses involve. A large number bail out of the business major pretty early on. I would pick a school that offers a lot of other options for when you decide economics and statistics are not for you.</p>

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<p>Most high school students are also not the people to be asking what the best business schools are. Most have no clue about any of these schools, and even less information about their business schools. I’ll think I’ll start my own thread to fill in some of this information, since students don’t get the proper information on this–and these rankings are just helpful to a very, very minor degree.</p>