<p>I'm a rising sophmore with very good grades and extracurriculars at one of the nation's most renowned prep schools, a white Catholic male. I plan on majoring in business in college, and am confident in my ability to make it into many of the top schools.</p>
<p>The problem is that even with the help of those BusinessWeek rankings I really don't know the top schools too well. So I have three questions:</p>
<p>What are the best business schools?</p>
<p>Even though schools like Michigan, Virginia, Berkeley, and Notre Dame are higher-ranked than most Ivy League schools, are they actually better options in the long run?</p>
<p>And do the top service academies have anything even resembling a business program?</p>
<p>Most Ivy League schools don’t have undergraduate business programs, which is why they aren’t on the list for the best undergraduate business schools.</p>
<p>The [debatable] top 5 would probably consist of Wharton (UPenn), McIntire (UVA), Mendoza (U of Notre Dame), Ross (UMich), and Haas (UC Berkeley).</p>
<p>Stern at NYU may or may not be in the top 5, but again, it’s all debatable.</p>
<p>Here you can view a top 10 list and each college in each specialty, which would be more useful if you know what you want to major in:
[Best</a> Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/business]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/business)
You’ll notice some schools are highly ranked in just a couple majors, and don’t even make the list in others (like UVA), but then there are schools (like UT) where every single major they offer is in the top 10. If you can get in-state tuition at one of them, then it’s a no-brainer; go there. Also, since you mentioned you were Catholic, you may really enjoy Notre Dame.</p>
<p>^ You also forgot about Ross, which is an awesome business school for undergrad. Even McKinsey recruits talents at Ross, something that they do not really do to some Ivy League schools. </p>
<p>Schools like Ross, Haas and Stern are very much capable in competing against the likes of Chicago, Duke and lower ivies. That is a fact.</p>
<p>@Lobzz I think it’s funny you say GWSB as 6th on your list, I feel like its been pretty much pegged as a sub-par b-school. Which sucks because I didn’t realize this and am enrolled for the fall haha. Why do you think its good? </p>
<p>hmom5, it doesn’t matter what you will choose. What matters here is the fact that big time employers in banking/finance/consulting industry treat Ross, Haas, Sloan and Stern grads equally as sought after as those of ivy league’s. If you would check out on the vault’s, you’d realise I was correct and your opinion was flat out wrong. In fact, Ross is core school of McKinsey. Duke, Chicago, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Williams and Amherst aren’t. Check your facts.</p>
<p>I would choose Haas, Ross or Sloan over Duke, Chicago, Williams or any of the lower ivies, in a heartbeat.</p>
<p>No, I meant George Washington. It’s not a sub-par business school. I havent visited and I dont know much about it but I know 3 people who went there who now have very good jobs. One is a family friend who happens to run his own business and is doing very well. The other is a friend of a friend who also runs his own business and is now a multimillionaire (hes 29, too). And then theres my uncle who has managed to break into the investment banking sector with ease. He then worked for the IMF and is now working for a private limited company. Im applying next year for transfer.</p>
<p>Gosh, where do you work? This is the furthest thing from the truth at the BB bank I’ve hired for for going on 3 decades and the major managment consultant firm my husband hires for. I’ll have to ask my “big time” cohorts where this is the case.</p>
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<p>Not my bias I speak of, the bias of the elite element of the business community.</p>
<p>Are you sure schools like swarthmore and williams place significantly more analysts in banking/S&T than schools like Ross and Stern? I’d agree the ivies would, but can anyone who’s interning/workign at any of the BBs post how many interns/analysts are in their class from each school? Judging from the posters who have posted such lists on CC, NYU sometimes performs just as well as some of the mid to lower ivies, and other schools like Duke/Chicago.</p>