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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Business professor here.  Business is a professional field, not an academic one.  So, it is possible for an undergrad to get a bad education by selecting unrelated business courses in marketing, finance, organizational behavior, and manufacturing.  This is much less likely in Math, English, or Economics.

You only take half your courses in your major, and there is no guarantee that your child will ultimately choose business.  So I would put heavy weight on the school.  As you surely noticed, most Ivy League schools and top colleges lack a business major.  UVA is a good school, but I would strongly consider a school like Northwestern, Brown, or Columbia without undergrad business.

Of course, UVA in-state tuition might be much cheaper, and it might be better for your child to stay closer to home.
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Just to debunk this a little - the key is being at a core recruiting school, then your major doesn't matter. I was Econ at UVA and had a full slate of banking superdays, alongside my McIntire friends (other Econ majors recruited alongside them for consulting). Companies do not differentiate once they are coming to campus, at least at UVA.

You don't sound like you know what you are talking about.
I would trust more of the major finance and consulting companies.
They target business majors at schools like MIT, Cornell, NYU, UPENN, Notre Dame, UMich, Berkeley, Emory, CMU, UVA etc. etc.
The trend is top schools are adding Buiness flavored  programs   
Brown recently added Business Track on it's Econ major.
Vanderbilt added Business Minor to it's Econ major.
Rice recently added undergrad Business major.

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