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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP your kid has stats for a much better business school. As someone who has had global responsibilities and has done an expat assignment abroad for an international company you don’t need an “international business” degree. Have your kid go to the highest ranked school and overall business school (university of South Carolina is not top) The best b schools all offer global exposure to their undergrads, trips, even global internships. Look them up. Then join a F500 with global presence for the first gig out of school. [/quote]

As someone who recruits at business schools for consulting, the above advice is dead on. I’ve recruited at Penn, UVA, Michigan, and CMU. Univ of SC is never under consideration. If your child is interested in int’l business, focus on a foreign language and do a semester abroad at a top 25 business school. [/quote]

This thread isn’t about consulting and surely you are aware most kids don’t go to a T25 b school. This thread has been hijacked by people with no apparent knowledge about Darla. Move on [/quote]

No. You don’t get to cancel others just because you don’t like the discussion. The original queation was ‘does the international degree at U of SC have any merit’. And many here are trying to answer that. You don’t have to like what is being offered. But you don’t get to stop others from providing real business advice.

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+1. I’ve commented previously providing advice about this as well, and I also agree with the poster at 20:30. This is not meant to be a U of SC booster thread but a thread about OP’s question. While I hope someone can shed light on why, exactly, U of SC has a popular international business program, it doesn’t change the reality that this is a weaker major (that often doesn’t result in an international business career) or that Darla is a middling business school in the grand scheme of things. It’s helpful for these views to be shared, not just defensive posts from people with their kids there currently.[/quote]

And Darla grads can still get international jobs if they want. Not all companies target Darla grads and UofSC isn’t Harvard, but let’s be honest that Darla kids can be successful too. [/quote]

Okay, but share what the “international jobs” are. I’m genuinely asking. I’m incredibly skeptical, because most IB programs do not succeed at this, but maybe you will prove me wrong and UofSC has cracked the code. But I’m talking about real international jobs, not just “they were employed 6 months after graduation.”[/quote]

They have this on their website- https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/moore/talent_recruiting/office_of_career_management/company_recruiter_resources/employment_statistics/index.php[/quote]

Okay, so the same companies as the other majors. This was a point I made earlier. IB programs are not sending kids into IB jobs, so unless the culture and fit speak to you, better to pursue a different major at the best school (and fit) you can swing.[/quote]

The IB companies listed are global, so you don’t know that the placement wasn’t international. [/quote]

I do, because I know the way these US-based and US-centric companies operate. The Big 4 consulting firms generally hire new hires in the country where they have right to work. BoA is heavily US-focused for a large bank. They aren’t shipping these kids all over the world just because they majored in IB, which is also why they are same companies listed across multiple majors.[/quote]

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