<p>If you had a choice between BHP, Notre Dame and UVA where would you go and why? Also, any business people or recruiters, which do you prefer and why?</p>
<p>BHP. No questions asked. if you are solely interested in business, go to UT. However, if you have any doubts whatsoever about doing business and may prefer a more liberal-arts based education, go to UVA.</p>
<p>Pretty sure about the business degree but why do you think it is better?</p>
<p>Listen, I’m a Plan II Honors major and I know a handful of kids who are in BHP & Plan II. UVA’s Business school is as good as Wharton and if you are wanting to live and have a career on the East Coast, or anywhere for that matter, UVA is by far the best. If you know you want to stay in Texas BHP can’t be beat.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if UVA is on par with Wharton, but I do agree wholeheartedly that if you want to live in Texas then BHP is the way to go.</p>
<p>Texas business school isn’t a great education per se, but it has a great reputation, so you’ll turn out fine if you go to Texas.</p>
<p>BHP is as good as Wharton is reputation wise, and it’s a lot better weather and a LOT more fun of a school.</p>
<p>It depends on your major and what you’re looking for in a college, but as a fellow prospective business student, I’ll lend my opinion.</p>
<p>NOTRE DAME:
I guess I’m the first poster who knows much about Notre Dame, but a few things I considered when choosing UT for business over ND were the location, cost and the religious aspect (I am Catholic).</p>
<p>For location, every time I went home I would either have to take a bus or cab to Chicago or Indianapolis, or have an indirect flight from a puddle jumper. More importantly, it limits your employment and internship opportunities while you are in school. Also, the town isn’t particularly desirable and the weather can get pretty harsh in that area.</p>
<p>Notre Dame is an expensive school! You’re looking about 50k a year, so unless you qualify for some very nice financial aid, or you’re rich, it will likely be a stretch for you and your family, if it is possible for you at all.</p>
<p>The religious aspect seemed really nice to my grandma. However, it seems less nice to non-catholic people. As sad as it is, there are people out there who think less of degrees from ND because the school is very religious. It is considered a top 20 university, but few of the programs are actually ranked and the graduate programs especially are lacking prestige and rankings.</p>
<p>UVA:
I did not consider UVA when I was looking for schools. It is a good school, but not good enough to lure me away from UT, which is higher ranked in all areas of study I’m considering, and in business as a whole.</p>
<p>UT:
I chose UT because I’m not sure if I want to do finance, accounting, marketing or management, and UT was ranked 4th, 1st, 3rd, and 3rd respectively in these majors. This puts it ahead of both other schools in each of these areas, and it has a higher ranking business school as a whole. It has prestige in the US and abroad. Despite it’s public school status, made it to the 15th best university in the world in a london publication’s ranking.</p>
<p>The campus is also very appealing. It has some hills and nice trees, but it’s also right next to downtown Austin. This means you’ll not only never run out of things to do, but you are right next to one of the best job markets in the US and can easily snag a nice internship. As a plus, the weather is pretty nice and sunny, too.</p>
<p>The size of the university means it has absolutely vast resources, not to mention how fun it is to talk about watching the largest screen in America, and eating at the #1 and #2 highest grossing wendie’s in the world, and living in one of the largest dorms in the world if you choose (though I’m choosing a smaller building). The number of national merit scholars is second only to Harvard, and it has produced 9 astronauts! :P</p>
<p>I’m very happy with my decision to go to UT, and I fully recommend it.</p>
<p>Openedskittles, appreciate the last post but you say you didn’t consider UVA because it was not ranked as high in business as a whole? Business Week had it as #2 last year and #1 this year. ND was #3 last year and #2 this year. UT was #10 both years. US News had UT and UVA tied at #6. I can’t find a place that ranks the individual programs but overall both rank higher than UT. I tend to agree with about ND. Great school, great traditions, but cold, not a great town, very expensive and just to hard to get to. UVA is better in terms of weather and it’s a great town, and ranking but just not sure it would be worth it.</p>
<p>Where did you find the rankings for the individual programs? I would love to see those. </p>
<p>Another plus for UT would be that I think the BHP moves the status of the business school up some, don’t you? Maybe if ranks #10 as a whole, the BHP portion would rank #2 or #3? </p>
<p>Just trying to sort this all out in my brain and appreciate everyone’s thoughts.</p>
<p>Oh, I was looking at US News.
[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)
The top section has the overall rankings, in which they’ve scored UT just a little bit higher.
The business specialties section below ranks schools by how well they deliver each major.</p>
<p>UT’s showing in the 4 main majors I considered was second only to Penn. UVA was 8th in finance, 6th in management, 9th in marketing, and it didn’t make the top 10 in accounting. Furthermore, UT appears in the top 10 for ALL 12 majors US News ranks, while UVA only appears in the 3 I just mentioned.</p>
<p>I guess I might have thought differently if I paid more attention to Business Week’s rankings, but as far as I can tell US News is the most universally read ranking for colleges. I’m also a bit biased because I just got back from Austin 2 days ago and the weather was wonderful and the campus was great. I’ll admit this time last year I didn’t want to go to a public school or a school in Texas, but I’m very happy with UT now.</p>
<p>That is great information, thank you. Wonder why UVA and ND are ranked so high overall in business on so many lists when they don’t do nearly as well in the individual programs as UT. Strange. How do you think the overall UT business school compares to BHP? Big difference? Not so much?</p>
<p>I thought it was a bit strange as well, but part of the methodology includes perceived prestige by recruiters and academic peers, so it is very possible that McCombs could be considered a top school for each major but not be seen as a top school overall, especially since UT (outside of McCombs) as a whole is pretty easy to get into with things like the top 10% rule and CAP program, which inevitably will take a toll on the prestige of even the best programs at UT.</p>
<p>I don’t know much about the difference between BHP and regular McCombs. I’ve heard of BHP students landing very sweet jobs, but I’ve also heard that McCombs students in general have plenty of jobs to choose from at graduation. I think you would be in a good place either way.</p>
<p>As far as job placement, when I went to a Plan II (a more prestigious liberal arts major) visit the instructor told our group rather openly that though personally she did not care for business the BHP was more selective than her major and when some companies recruit they only want to see the BHP kids, completely bypassing regular students, and then may look over at Plan II for any highly qualified non-business majors.</p>
<p>UT has a wonderful study abroad program, one of the best in the country, and the business students are the most often abroad with special programs all throughout the globe. I look forward to a Summer 2010 in Cordoba, Argentina.</p>
<p>The BHP program does add prestige to the university as it was recently cited along with the Accounting program as reasons to look at UT in BusinessWeek, I believe it was. The classes are much smaller (better interaction between students and with professors) and the networking is very good as your classmates are all very intelligent and will probably place great jobs.</p>
<p>I was looking at Rice and MIT but decided that for the money UT had far and away the better slate of opportunities (with no crushing debt at the end). </p>
<p>Language also went into the equation for me though, and UT has phenominal Spanish and Arabic programs so that made it a little easier.</p>
<p>Thanks for the insight. Now I sort of wish I applied for BHP.</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll see you at UT, Rewind! :)</p>