Looking for intel on top undergrad business programs
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Anonymous
Good list for undergrad business. W&L is a sleeper. New business school currently being built. I'd add BU as well. Good undergrad business school. |
Anonymous
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OP - what I would really love to see is a ranking list like what is on poets and quants but based on employment outcomes - even subjective - as opposed to garbage in garbage out data on class rank or national merit semi finalists. I mean, I can take the USNWR college rankings and just sort by the ones who have business schools too.
Does USC have better recruiting outcomes than BC or UVA? This I would like to know. |
Anonymous
| It is unfortunate that P&Q doesn't always get a response from certain schools, which then get left out of the ranking. It's those schools' loss, but it would be nice to have P&Q somehow find a way to include them anyway. |
Anonymous
Career outcomes are one factor in the P&Q overall. P&Q also posts the list sorted by career ranking: https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/best-undergraduate-business-schools-of-2024/4/ |
Anonymous
This is impossible to answer cleanly. Some big employers have preferred schools where they hire more. Also some employers hire only within a region. If you want to work in CA, go to a CA school. If you want to work in Boston, don't go to USC. Wall Street and the top strategy consultancies are the ones where cross-school comparisons might be the most useful. But even then not very much. And do you even know what type of high-paying job your kid might want? Here is a site that could help with that for finance and consulting. https://www.theforage.com/ Try to find each business school's placement report and read it. That will be the best info you can get. |
Anonymous
| UVA |
Anonymous
Seems like Wharton Georgetown and Michigan Ross are the HYP of undergrad business then you have a solid second tier of about 10 schools that are roughly equivalent… or maybe Wharton stands alone and the next 10-12 are basically the same |
Anonymous
I don’t know the answer definitively, but imagine the outcomes for USC are strongly weighted towards the film, music, sports and entertainment business. Not so much of a Wall Street feeder. |
Anonymous
I'd add Michigan, Berkeley, Indiana, Notre Dame, NYU, Vanderbilt HOD, and Cornell. I would disappear W&L and Richmond. Rice is a little new to a business undergrad. They have a very good econ department. But business is new. Looks like they are geared towards finance and management. But since it is so new, there is no placement track record. |
Anonymous
Keep Richmond, delete W&L. Add any Ivy that you do not already have on the list, and Stanford and MIT. Yes, I know those are not undergrad business programs per se, but there is more elite recruiting at those schools than Kelley, Emory, BC, etc. |
Anonymous
If they’re looking long term into a PE or IB career, or even consulting, W&L is a much better choice. Richmond isn’t even on the map compared to W&L for business. |
Anonymous
What does student want to study? Placement for what, specifically? What are kids stats? |
Anonymous
You can find that on College Board or just search “school” “outcomes” “major” I just posted asking for your kids stats and what kid wants to major in and do professionally. I just went through this with my son who is now an analyst with JPMorgan. |
Anonymous
| MIT, Cornell, Notre Dam, NYU are some of the top ones missing. |
Anonymous
+2 Almost every kid I know that went to W&L recently is working in business and making crazy $$ only a few years out of school. Most are in NYC and a few in DC and Houston. Sample size of 5. |