Hi, I am curious on the strength of each Big Ten business school. I am looking specifically at Finance, but overall business works too. I also want to know the difficulty of making the university and its business school. My top choice right now is the University of Iowa because I live in Iowa and I heard Tippie is a pretty solid business school. My second choice is Indiana, where I have heard Kelley is one of the top business schools in the country. I understand there may not be a clear-cut “best” school, but can anyone help rank these schools by business for me? I’m not going to factor in GPA or ACT/SAT scores in this thread.
Big ten is strong in business. My personal opinion is that Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin have the strongest programs (in that order) for undergraduate.
@Blin2019 and @jjrrdd The 2018 US News &a World Report ranks undergraduate business schools and Michigan Ross is ranked #3, Indiana Kelley is ranked #11, Ohio State Fisher, Illinois and Wisconsin are tied at #15. Penn State (Smeal) and Maryland are tied at #21, MSU (Broad) and Purdue (Krannert) are tied at #24 and Iowa (Tippie) is #31. These business schools are all strong and other than Michigan Ross and Indiana Kelley, which are the two standouts, the difference in ranking amongst the rest is not enough for you to make a decision solely based on ranking. (Make your decision based on cost and fit). By the way, the cost for Michigan and Indiana for outofstate applicants is prohibitively high and unaffordable for most families except those in the top 1% of wage earning families. Michigan Ross has the most difficult of admissons. Indiana Kelley has clear cut criteria for admission. If you got the stats you’re in. If not Kelley has an appeal process where you can get a holistic review of your application. Need based amd merit based aid for Michigan and Indiana is not much for Outofstate applicants.Your greatest return on investment is Your instate school Iowa.
Mark Cuban chose IU business school because it had the lowest OOS tuition of the big ten schools. His current net worth is $3.2 billion.
@TomSrOfBoston Do u mean Indiana University? It’s OOS tuition for Kelley, which is a few thousand dollars higher than the other Indiana undergrad schools, is tied for the second highest cost (along with Wisconsin) in the big ten now—behind Michigan Ross–about $37,000 --plus roughly $10,000 room and board. If cost is not an issue for the OP I would definitely recommend the OP pick Indiana Kelley over Iowa, particularly for Finance and Investment Banking.
@trackmbe3 Cuban graduated IU in 1981.
@trackmbe3 thanks for the info! Costs sure do seem high for Kelley. Do you know at all if Tippie has good business connections with Chicago, especially investment banks? I know Indiana is better for Finance, but I heard Tippie isn’t too shabby in Finance either. Am I wrong?