| Excellent advice from moss.
No, my rankings didn't consider cost. USC will cost much more than UC Berkeley if you are in-state (unless you get a scholarship or great financial aid package). Current USC cost-of-attendance figures are about $49K per year versus about $24K per year at a University of California campus. Thus, Berkeley is the better choice (definitely) if you are considering cost as well.
Keep in mind, though, that at UC Berkeley you will need to get at least a 3.42 GPA in your first two years to be accepted to Haas business school.
USC's admission to the Marshall business school (and Leventhal, the accounting school) isn't as strict--although they do weed out those who don't at least make a decent effort during the first two years to prepare for the business program. Also, their grading curve--based after the one at NYU's Stern school--is quite strict once you are in the business program (although they loosened it up very slightly last year after getting lots of complaints about how tough it was). |