UMich, USC, NYU are all safeties for finance

Anonymous wrote:Also consider the M.S. in Commerce from UVa.

https://www.commerce.virginia.edu/ms-commerce

Ha ha!! (Don’t listen to this OP based on the stats you noted.)

Anonymous wrote:Accounting or Finance at Fairfield in CT. They have a very strong business school with almost all placement in the tax/audit/consulting firms in NY and Boston if that’s what he’d like.

+1. Extremely social school too. Good training ground.

Anonymous wrote:If you are full pay, have him major in Econ at a liberal arts school. They desperately need full pay kids and he might be able to land in a liberal arts school ranked in the top 100.

Why declaring Econ?

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Anonymous wrote:JMU's accounting and finance programs have strong regional placement track records for mid+ stat kids looking to stay in the area. The work is hard and a number of kids without the aptitude or drive move to a softer business major. Every single one of DD's cohorts had jobs w/ well known firms lined up before graduating. JMU's CPA exam pass rate is always among the best in the country.

I agree. I worked in big 4 here, and I was always impressed with the JMU and Va tech cpas I encountered.

I think it really depends on what you mean by finance. If you mean CPA at a big 4- there are lots of great schools with strong programs including JMU. If OP really means hedge fund manager, the path is a but harder

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Anonymous wrote:Look at the Business Schools at some of the Catholic colleges, Villanova, Fordham, St. Joes in Philadelphia. They have strong business schools with active alumni networks of grads who have done well in finance over the past thirty years. There are probably other schools as well. Villanova's business school is pretty hard to get into but look at some others.

+1 Also, Loyola Marymount in Baltimore. I know of at least one financial firm that hires traders out of there.

Just to clarify for others, that's Loyola Maryland. (Loyola Marymount is in Los Angeles. Easy typo to make.)

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Anonymous wrote:Look at the Business Schools at some of the Catholic colleges, Villanova, Fordham, St. Joes in Philadelphia. They have strong business schools with active alumni networks of grads who have done well in finance over the past thirty years. There are probably other schools as well. Villanova's business school is pretty hard to get into but look at some others.

+1 Also, Loyola Marymount in Baltimore. I know of at least one financial firm that hires traders out of there.

Same with Fairfield.

Anonymous wrote:JMU's accounting and finance programs have strong regional placement track records for mid+ stat kids looking to stay in the area. The work is hard and a number of kids without the aptitude or drive move to a softer business major. Every single one of DD's cohorts had jobs w/ well known firms lined up before graduating. JMU's CPA exam pass rate is always among the best in the country.

I agree. I worked in big 4 here, and I was always impressed with the JMU and Va tech cpas I encountered.

Some CTCL colleges have business majors.

Anonymous wrote:Remember that a lot of these "average" colleges have much higher requirements to get into for the business school than for other majors. And if you get in for a different major, unless you maintain a very high GPA and can get business prereqs. such as calculus, mircoecon., macroecon., etc. with good grades, it can range from hard to nearly impossible to transfer into the business program.

You also have to very strong in math.

True. Thus the utility of the P&Q data, which can be otherwise hard to find:

Look toward the less-selective end on this list of undergrad business average SAT and acceptance rates
https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/2019/12/20...he-leading-business-schools/2/

Caveat, it's unclear what class year this admission data came from. We'll see if they come out with a fresh ranking in December.

Remember that a lot of these "average" colleges have much higher requirements to get into for the business school than for other majors. And if you get in for a different major, unless you maintain a very high GPA and can get business prereqs. such as calculus, mircoecon., macroecon., etc. with good grades, it can range from hard to nearly impossible to transfer into the business program.

You also have to very strong in math.

Anonymous wrote:Look at the Business Schools at some of the Catholic colleges, Villanova, Fordham, St. Joes in Philadelphia. They have strong business schools with active alumni networks of grads who have done well in finance over the past thirty years. There are probably other schools as well. Villanova's business school is pretty hard to get into but look at some others.

+1 Also, Loyola Marymount in Baltimore. I know of at least one financial firm that hires traders out of there.

Miami University. It is in Oxford, Ohio. Highly ranked business college.

Catholic U

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe he should go into something a little less high-stakes? I don't want my money being managed by someone who was a very average student. I want a smarty-pants.

I'm sure he will be managing people with much more money than you have, so you are in luck.

Agreed. Also, for those who truly believe in the innate skill and judgment of "smarty-pants," I recommend the book/documentary titled "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room." See what the financial A-Team did there. FWIW, Jeff Skilling has an MBA form Harvard.