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There are a lot of terrific schools that don’t offer an undergrad business school and yet they regularly place lots of students with top employers in very competitive industries. The message is that you don’t need an undergrad business degree to position yourself. Undergrad business is very overrated. </p>
<p>So I’d suggest that you focus on those colleges that have engineering and then think about how do you meld this with some business related courses or minors/interdisciplinary majors/minors. My sense is that a lot of schools understand this interest in engineering combined with business and new programs are springing up in many places.</p>
<p>As for recommendations, I think that slik nik probably gave you the best advice. Rice is a terrifiic school with excellent engineering that can also provide some degree of business training. The price tag is also right and they do a good job with merit money. I encourage you to give the school a close look.</p>