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Now in general you get BSBA for business program, but you speicalize in certain areas such as finance, accounting, marketing, management, etc.
I would stay away from areas like marketing or management too are too broad. 
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They won't let you to "stay away" from marketing or management.  In the first two years, business students take university requirements and financial accounting. Then students must take required introductory courses in marketing, organizational behavior/management and perhaps "strategy", managerial accounting, manufacturing/supply chain, business economics, business law, statistics/econometrics, information systems, maybe entrepreneurship and maybe global mumbo jumbo.  Academic departments compete for growth by requiring all these courses.  Students can only specialize in the last year.

I'm laissez faire.  Find the best college with the best opportunities to explore.  If my daughters want to major in English at Princeton, or in-state, that is fine.  If they want me to pay for hippie Bennington College, then we might have a problem (unless they have special needs).  Connecticut College and George Washington also seem overpriced.  If they like the Pepperdine because of the Malibu beach, then I will tell them to study hard and get into UCSD.  But some kids gravitate to government and politics at American University.  IMHO, a kid needs to be unusually focused at an early age to justify choosing a distinctly worse university for a specialized program.

Seriously, you take around 25% of courses in your major for a 4-year bachelors degree.  Why compromise on the other 75%, when you can go to a better-fitting undergrad school, and then get a 1-year specialty masters?  It seems obvious that a Brown/Northwestern/Columbia/Dartmouth economics bachelors degree plus a top masters degree will provide superior career connections and opportunities to a UVA/McIntire degree.[/quote]

Brown/Northwestern/Columbia/Dartmouth are all obviously bigger targets than UVA McIntire, for the simply fact that three of them are Ivies (which matters in IB/Consulting) and the remaining one has a M7 MBA (so existing connections/recruiting pipelines).

The undergrad b-school vs. economics argument only holds for within the same school. For example, Notre Dame provides both an economics major and has an undergrad b-school. In this case, being in the undergrad b-school is far better than being an economics major. [/quote]

Schools like Dartmouth, Brown, Northwestern are not really bigger target than UVA McIntire based on this
https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/ib-target-schools

Top three are business schools.  
It's mixture of business schools and non-business.
They are just different options.

Let me know if anyone has other sources we can reference.  
We need to talk at least with some sources rather than pulling stuff out of a$$

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Columbia is based in Manhattan and Dartmouth has a major alumni presence on the Street.

Brown and Northwestern is better than UVA in IB, and there's no competition in Big 3 Consulting.
https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/consulting-target-schools

You are looking at raw placement data without normalizing for undergrad population. If you do so:

IB:
1. Columbia - 2.15%
2. Dartmouth - 2.22%
3. Brown - 0.93%
4. Northwestern - 0.87%
5. UVA - 0.63%

MBB:
1. Columbia - 1.14%
2. Dartmouth - 1.45%
3. Brown - 0.72%
4. Northwestern - 0.9%
5. UVA  - 0.41%

There's no competition between Columbia/Dartmouth and UVA for IB. Brown and Northwestern have 38% ~ 47% better placements.

For MMB, no competition again between Columbia/Dartmouth and UVA. Brown and Northwestern again have much better placements at 75% ~ 122% better. No competition with Brown or Northwestern in MBB.

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