<p>I am deciding between these 3 schools and I plan to major in finance. TCNJ is obviously the most affordable, and I received 14,000 a year from Fordham and nothing from Nova. I'm leaning towards Nova despite the price; they must be doing something right to have the business school ranked so high in every poll, especially the 7th overall ranking from Businessweek. I'm afraid that TCNJ has less business connections not being near a city. Fordham and Nova both have good connections being in New York and just outside Philly. What school do you guys think offers the best opportunity for a successful career in finance. Offer some opinions on what school you think I should attend...</p>
<p>funny, i am considering both villanova and fordham for business. fordham offered me more money also, but i am unsure which i will choose. villanova is a better school esp. for business, but i really like new york and the finance is a plus from fordham.</p>
<p>I think that Villanova would definitely offer the best opportunity with any business degree. Nonetheless, college is what you make of it and Fordham and TCNJ are both perfectly fine schools. Nova has great recognition in the northeast, especially in Philly, NYC, and Boston.</p>
<p>TCNJ school of business is the best in the state and will rise leaps and bounds in the coming future.</p>
<p>Fordham was also one of the schools on my list, but I honestly never thought of it as a legit option. For me in the end, the choice was Villanova Business School, or Rutgers Business, and I ended up choosing Villanova just because the prospects of life after college seemed better. Plus, the way I see it, Villanova has a lot of weight in Philadelphia, and it’s only a train ride away from NYC. </p>
<p>You just gotta think about where you think you’ll have more fun at as well as maintain grades.</p>
<p>Visit both and go with your gut (assuming you can afford them all).</p>
<p>I choose Fordham over Villanova, GW and Penn State. I currently intern in NYC at Goldman Sachs and there are tons of Fordham grads (over 30) and there are no Villanova grads as Villanova is looked upon mainly as a basketball school here in the city. Don’t get me wrong Villanova is a fantastic school with great academics but in NYC it doesn’t have an elite reputation unfortunately.</p>
<p>You are a High School Graduate and an incoming freshman at Fordham and interning at GS?</p>
<p>Wow , Fordham must be amazing!</p>
<p>I got it through an application I sent. Its called the Goldman Sachs Start Now! Program but its unpaid, they just cover your lunch, and I got it through my high school internship with a US Congressman, not through Fordham, but alot of Fordham grads are there</p>
<p>Congratulation on "Goldman Sachs Start Now! ". Women on Wall street are woefully underrepresented and this program is an excellent way to introduce young ladies to the industry.
That being said you have learned the most important lesson in Investment Banking: It’s not what you know it’s who you know , see “I got it through my high school internship with a US Congressman”.</p>
<p>Your post was misleading in that you implied that you were interning through Fordham’s Business School. I also find it hard to believe that in GS intern program Fordham grads outnumber Villanova grads by 30 to ZERO.</p>
<p>If there is an inverse relationship between athletic success and post graduate success that could explain Fordham’s Wall St Connections. </p>
<p>I doubt GS or any other major IB views Villanova as a “basketball school”.This is foolish statement. There are 6000 undergrads at Villanova and about 20 basketball players.</p>
<p>While Fordham has a good pipeline into Wall St ,I have met many successful Villanova grads on Wall St. and more are on the way.</p>
<p>Please see Bloomberg Business Week Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2011 Survey:
[Best</a> Undergraduate Business Schools 2011 - Businessweek](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>
<p>Villanova rank # 7 , Recruiter rank # 12
Fordham Rank # 52 , Recruiter rank # 69</p>
<p>Recruiter Rank methodology :Bloomberg Businessweek polled 775 corporate recruiters for companies that hire thousands of business majors each year. We asked them to tell us which programs turn out the best graduates, and which schools have the most innovative curricula and most effective career services.</p>
<p>Median Starting Salaries are comparable with Fordham grads getting slight edge 56,000 vs 53,000.</p>
<p>If you have ever been on Villanova’s campus you would know that GS is on campus daily trying to recruit the students, i see more GS sponsored events that I would ever want to in my life and actually they have speakers come to talk to all Business students in their B dynamics class</p>
<p>where did you go?</p>
<p>Different agencies produce very different rankings. </p>
<p>US News Best Undergrad Business Programs
<a href=“http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-overall/spp%2B50/page+2[/url]”>http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-overall/spp%2B50/page+2</a></p>
<p>Villanova #67 </p>
<h2>Fordham #67 – a tie with 19 other schools</h2>
<p>Villanova Accounting Program #24<br>
Fordham Accounting Program #27</p>
<p>Villanova Finance Program is unranked<br>
Fordham Finance Program # 21</p>
<p>Both schools seem pretty decent.</p>