terenc

@LakeClouds: I agree that in an ideal world only people who have personally experienced all the colleges in question would be able to comment on the issue, but that's really unrealistic. Firstly, nobody has ever attended every single top business school. Secondly, even of those people who attended one and transferred to another, you're going to find very very few of those people on CC, and even those that do come here are unlikely to have attended the exact two colleges the OP wants to know about, and are also unlikely to be active enough on CC to see the OP's question.

snorkelmom

UNC Chapel Hill. Personal experience. Great value too.

Think about where you'd like to stay and live after undergrad, and then look into placement. I think some schools, like UNC are more nationally regarded. But it depends on where you would like to end up.

bronxbombers1927

UNC, UVA, MIT, Villanova, Georgetown, BErkely, UMICH

mmmichael

Thanks for all your responses!

trizz75

"Wash U's b-school does not have a known reputation and I read once on ************** that the b-school is subpar compared to the rest of the school...

Plus it's in St Louis, middle of nowhere... Closest big city is 500 miles away"

Says the 18 year old who uses some unmentionable source to back up his statement...

And, St. Louis is certainly not in no-man's land. Chicago, Memphis, and KC are all less than 350 miles away from STL, and STL is by no means a small city itself.

And as for the rankings comment, they are not perfect and are at times misleading. But, when taking rankings in conjunction with one another, they can offer a general perspective as to where schools are positioned academically.

discoinferno

I'm only familiar with California schools. Here it's Haas (UC Berkeley), Orfalea (CalPoly SLO), and then several privates like San Diego University. UC Santa Barbara has a heavily recruited Economics/Accounting major, hidden away behind its "party school" stereotype.

RML

Berkeley-Haas, MIT-Sloan, NYU-Stern, Michigan-Ross, UVa-McIntire - top 5

discoinferno

edit - already posted

Syoung2

How does Penn State University Park's business program compare? I know it isn't top-tier, but how does it rank up against other big public schools?

trizz75

It's definitely decent. It was ranked as a top recruited school.

zapfino

"Plus it's in St Louis, middle of nowhere... Closest big city is 500 miles away."

Travel much?

St. Louis is not in the middle of nowhere. The St. Louis metro area is one of the largest in the US. Distance from: Indianapolis=249 miles; Kansas City=253 miles; Louisville=261 miles; Memphis=284 miles; Milwaukee=383 miles; Nashville=316 miles; Chicago=360 miles

Actually, it seems kinda centrally located. For a prospective business major, St. Louis is home to a number of major corporations and relatively close to other cities that are home to major companies.

Federico14

Penn State, only University Park. Or you could look into Berkeley

LakeClouds

I won't go near Penn State. They're under a cloud with the Sandusky scandel. Besides, why go to a school that elevates FB players to the level of minor deities (unless you are a FB player).

trizz75

With that mindset your pretty much limited to liberal arts schools, which have negligible fieldings of athletes they call football players.

LakeClouds

One non-LAC that comes to mind is CMU which has one of the best undergrad business schools and is Division III. MIT Sloan school would be another.

In terms of Penn State, the first thing anyone will notice when they visit is the enormous football stadium that can be seen from miles away. It's a reminder of their screwed-up priorities and of the abuse meted out to children there. With the Sandusky verdict, Penn State will be under a cloud of shame for decades with the over-sized stadium a reminder to all of what happened and how people turned a blind eye to protect their vaunted football program.