Georgetown's Rankings of Undergraduate Business Degree Programs out of 1,700 colleges

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Go Hoos!

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Bismark state makes sense. first, smallish sample. second is fracking.

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Glad to see W&M Mason getting much deserved recognition.

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One thing I take way is that once you get out of the top ten schools or so on the list, it doesn't make a lot of difference (for annual earnings) where you go. Why pay for an expensive private school if you have the affordable W&M option?

I am somewhat puzzled that the Penn bachelor's in business isn't higher on the list.

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Anonymous wrote:One thing I take way is that once you get out of the top ten schools or so on the list, it doesn't make a lot of difference (for annual earnings) where you go.

PS and this is also true of their overall ROI report. It's pretty much "T20 and everything else". Though you have to be careful because the report doesn't sort by major, and some schools have artificially high earnings because tech majors are driving up the average, and this won't apply to you if you're not a tech major.

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William and Mary Mason has also been climbing quickly in the Poets and Quants rankings. Good to see.

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Anonymous wrote:One thing I take way is that once you get out of the top ten schools or so on the list, it doesn't make a lot of difference (for annual earnings) where you go. Why pay for an expensive private school if you have the affordable W&M option?

I am somewhat puzzled that the Penn bachelor's in business isn't higher on the list.

Schools that send large portions of their students to grad school will have lower initial earnings

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Anonymous wrote:All these ranking seem pretty pointless. Villanova over UPenn?

Just send your kid to a college that is right for your child. Enough with these ranking.

Where did you see that? for undergrad, Upenn is #25 and Vilanova is #137. What surprising is GU is actually lower than Villanova.

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Anonymous wrote:One thing I take way is that once you get out of the top ten schools or so on the list, it doesn't make a lot of difference (for annual earnings) where you go. Why pay for an expensive private school if you have the affordable W&M option?

I am somewhat puzzled that the Penn bachelor's in business isn't higher on the list.

It's a funky list. Penn is #1 in Finance by a large margin if you sift based on majors. The various majors shown are kind of whacky.

Business/corporate communications? Specialized sales/merchandising? Assistant services?

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Just another reason why GU is no longer a top 20 school…..

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Anonymous wrote:Just another reason why GU is no longer a top 20 school…..

GU isn't T20 because the methodology changed 10 years ago, and again last year. Please don't be dense. And T25 is the standard anyway.

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Surprised Georgia tech is so far below Emory, I assumed GT got the higher paying jobs in tech.

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Anonymous wrote:Just another reason why GU is no longer a top 20 school…..

GU isn't T20 because the methodology changed 10 years ago, and again last year. Please don't be dense. And T25 is the standard anyway.

It used to be top 25, but now with a couple of state schools in the top 15, it was lowered to top 20. Can’t have too many of those after all.

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised Georgia tech is so far below Emory, I assumed GT got the higher paying jobs in tech.

Folks…read the thread…this is only how well the business majors do, not the overall school.

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Anonymous wrote:You would think something as basic as median salaries would be consistent across rankings.

Payscale rankings has Babson at #5 and median first year bachelor's degree salary is $90,600

How can this study show Babson at $61,200 for median first year salary?

does payscale only look at grads with just a bachelors?