<p>To answer your question: Emory.
Now the financials are another matter. Hopefully you’ll get more from them.</p>
<p>@oldfort my IDOC has finally been completed i am expected to receive my package sometime this week. I really do hope emory gives me a larger grant as they are known for being pretty generous. I would love to attend such a great school</p>
<p>oldfort:</p>
<p>Not really. I am eligible for 0 in FA.</p>
<p>If your parents are using your college tuition as a BUSINESS expense, they are gaining a financial advantage that most folks do not have. This could include tax advantage to their business. </p>
<p>I don’t know ANY finance majors from Emory, though I know lots of Emory grads, including my best friend’s son. Graduated right at the top of the class with a psych major and is doing research and in a grad program now in the field. Making very little money. Honestly, I don’t know any Emory grads who came out and is wowing us with their career,. The ones with the great jobs are the ones who are doing so well due to their fields of study or family connections. Not one thing about Emory to make me think that it’s going to be the road to getting an above average pay job right out of college. Not any of the schools listed, except Northeastern with that coop program that has yielded above average job prospects and salaries. Kids who do not take a course of study that is in high demand in the job market are not going to have jobs land in their laps. I asked DH last night about UG finance, and, no, that is not a job with a high proba of easilyfinding a high paying job. Better to be a math STEM major. He didn’t care what school the kid came from either. Accounting, the kids from Baruch are finding high paying jobs just fine, when on the CPA track. Doesn’t matter much the school.</p>
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<p>I have worked at the company for 4 years, everyday after school and full-time during summers and holidays. I am entitled to the same benefits as every other employee. That’s just the way it is.</p>
<p>So, your parents offer free tuition (including room and board) to ALL employees?</p>
<p>They offer tuition reimbursement for each course related to the business and approved by HR. C or better plus an agreement to remain with the company for a certain period of time. If an employee leaves prematurely, the employee is responsible for repayment. My parents would like to retire sometime in the next 10 years. I am their replacement.</p>
<p>My room and board is on them. They would feed and house me anyway.</p>
<p>@ cptofhouse: I think you’re being disingenuous here. Goizueta is one of the most sought-after business schools in the South… and the experience at Emory would be ten times better than at Baruch.
I think it’s been established upthread that OP wants to work in finance, not necessarily major in it, although after accounting I’ve heard it’s one of the “better” business majors. All things considered, of course an applied math major would be better, and pretty much any major would be a better investment than general business, but OP doesn’t seem to want general business anyway, nor psychology.</p>
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<p>True, but one doesn’t necessarily need to major in accounting to become a viable CPA certified accountant. </p>
<p>One can major in an arts & science field and do so either by being recruited by a Big-4 accounting firm like a lit major friend at Columbia or completing the 1 year accounting grad program which is now required anyways to meet the post-late '90s increased credit hours requirement needed to be eligible to take the CPA exam.</p>
<p>I am just citing my experience with all of this. I live in the NYC area and, though I don’t do hiring or interviewin or anything of kids, I have three who have gone through all of this and all of their peers and friends. I have a pretty good idea where they are. No stats, here but that has to be obtained from the schools and programs. Also though I won’t go much further with this, my husband is very knowledgeable as to who gets hired from where. It’s very much his job. Undergrad business majors, he says are not going to find it easy to find jobs other than accounting, other niche areas, unless they have the contacts. A math type major would be in better shape.</p>
<p>My one son majored in math/econ and had a lot of job opportunities at good salaries, and is currently with a large company that is constantly hiring young people out of college who have the computer, math type skills they seek. No business major without having the math courses as well. There is a weed out process with the tests they give to screen. But one doesn’t even get in the door without having the courses that can show that it’s a possibility… Fellow econ majors, double majors with non math type subjects have not fared so well in the job situation. My son did not go to a “name” college, not at all.</p>
<p>I personally don’t know about most finance majors from any number of business schools considered very good. What the employment numbers and pay opportninites are from grads with such a major. DH says thumbs down, and I guarantee you, he would know, in general. </p>
<p>I have no argument about the college experience at Emory being a wonderful one. It’s a terrific school. My son is looking seriously at Villanova. I 'd love for him to get in either. But would a finance major graduating from the business schools of either have a very good chance of getting a living wage job right out of school? Mmmm, I don’t know. Accounting, yes. Computer Science/Engineering , yes. Math, Math Sciences, yes. Finance? I am being told, no. Not that there aren’t exceptions, just as Sparksflying knows students who are getting companies to pay for their college costs, But not something to count on. </p>
<p>Emory business major placement figures look pretty darn good to me:</p>
<p><a href=“BBA Employment Success | Emory University Goizueta Business School”>http://goizueta.emory.edu/degree/undergraduate/career_management/placement_statistics/</a></p>
<p>As mentioned at some point…Atlanta is the headquarters for a number of large businesses, national and international. Seems like this would be a great place for this student to attend college. </p>
<p>How are the other schools’, Bobwallace.? Emory’s numbers look good indeed.</p>
<p>the placement at the schools i’m looking at seems very strong but the way some of you put it it makes it seem as if finance is a hopeless major</p>
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<p>I wish you the best of luck in gaining a large generous grant from Emory as it seems to give you the most flexibility regarding your stated career aspirations. </p>
<p>closetohome: not if you have enough math, and not from Goizueta :)</p>
<p>Goizueta seems great, my only issue really is convincing my parents to give me the flexibility to go down to atlanta. As long as I get a good package fom emory, that should not be an issue. Fingers crossed!</p>
<p>Update: Need advice </p>
<p>So based on my packages (and now with my parents dropping the reality on me that there is a chance I will be responsible for the plus loan as well) most likely wherever I got to school I will be responsible for around 100k in debt. </p>
<p>Now if i get an RA position after year 1, i will save over 30k, but those jobs are competitive and not a guarantee. </p>
<p>In the event I don’t and I choose to go to the more expensive school, would living at home with a job making around the average stating salary of between 50-60k(not being a dreamer here staying within the average) make it feasible to pay off the loans in between 2-5 years if I put around 50-60% of my salary(after taxes of course) towards debt? </p>
<p>I live in Long Island, If i am able to land a job in the area between my home/manhattan(ideally) I would not need a car so I would have almost no expenses (not rent, car, etc.) Is this a realistic option? My parents are perfectly fine with my living with them (I know most parents arent but mine just don’t want to see me go) </p>
<p>any insight and advice would be appreciated greatly </p>
<p>I thought you had some options with less than $100,000 debt. That seems like a LOT of debt to assume. </p>
<p>$100,000 in debt would be over $1000 a month for 10 years. I am going to round off, because I don’t want to take the time to figure out interest compounding and the like. But divide that in half and you would need $2000 a month for 5 years, and $4000 a month for 2 1/2 years repayment.</p>
<p>A $50,000 income would net you over $30,000 a year, I think. But if you want health insurance and want to contribute to your retirement, if you are paying off a $100,000 loan in 2-5 years, you won’t have much left.</p>