University of Illinois (UIUC) vs Indiana University (Kelley)

04-06-2006, 02:29 PM

Which is a better school for undergraduate business, Kelley School of Business or the U of I? I'm thinking about getting a degree in Accounting but I want to go into investment banking maybe. I've searched a lot of investment banks (career pages) and they recruit at both schools (maybe UIUC a little more, I'm not sure).

I'm instate Illinois btw.

mssales · 04-06-2006, 03:03 PM

Indiana is the better school for Investment Banking, but if you want to do Accounting, I would stay instate at UIUC. When I first came on this board about 3 years ago, no one was talkin about going to IU, maybe one post every so often, now there is at least one post a day about someone asking about IU, it has really come a long way.

04-07-2006, 03:55 PM

I'm becoming unsure as to whether I should apply to IU or not since it seems like the only way to get into investment banking is to be apart of the "Investment Banking/Capital Markets Workshop."

Pre-medwannabe · 04-07-2006, 09:00 PM

Step 1 in business : take smart risks. That means if you have enough bal*s you will choose Indiana-kelley and succeed and get into that workshop, but if you want to be just another accountant and live a 9-5 life and make a "decent" living go to Illinois. Just my thought.

04-07-2006, 11:18 PM

That really isn't a smart risk Mr. Pre-med

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IUB - Out of State (which is like $20,000 just for tuition).
Now if I could get an investment banking or even a consulting job at UIUC, why would I pay out of state prices to go to Kelley? UIUC is higher ranked but... maybe IUB puts more people into investment banking? I have no idea and this is really what I'm asking, which school would be the better option. It seems like IUB only sends people to investment banks if they are in their "Investment Bank/Capital Markets" club. The chances of getting in there are pretty tuff. So what happens if you can't get in? Now UIUC doesn't have an investment banking club, so investment banking or consulting companies would recruit at the school as a whole I would imagine, and not so at Kelley (because they let in a lot of students, low admission standards).

-Oh, and accounting students at Illinois go into the big four and make a good sum of money. Illinois is the number one ranking accounting school in the country!

coolblue · 04-07-2006, 11:59 PM

does recruiting really suck that hard at UIB if you're not in the investment banking club?

mssales · 04-08-2006, 12:07 AM

More students get IB jobs than just those involved in the workshop. Students of all majors.

coolblue · 04-08-2006, 12:32 AM

Besides ibanks, do kelly grads get recruited by a lot of companies. I'm not that interested in ibanking and I was wondering what my job opportunities will be

thanks

mssales · 04-08-2006, 02:16 PM

They get recruited by a lot of top companies, all the Big 4, IBanks, and other various fortune 500 companies.

coolblue · 04-08-2006, 06:17 PM

would other companies, besides ibanks, recruit a finance degree?

Pre-medwannabe · 04-08-2006, 06:28 PM

definitely and if you plan on doing an undergraduate business degree your school name actualy means something because your not automatically going to grad school. The better the company that you work for the better the MBA program you will usually get into. IUB has better recruiting in more of the top fields such as investment banking and consulting, but overall I would assume that more of the "average" jobs on a 9 to 5 scheduale would be more available at UIUC, but it depends on what you want for oyurself and what your ambitions are.

coolblue · 04-08-2006, 06:45 PM

what kind of degree would a consulting firm want? Finance, marketing, or accounting?

Pre-medwannabe · 04-08-2006, 07:08 PM

finance or management or Marketing would do fine.

mssales · 04-10-2006, 04:27 PM

I was just looking at the website for UIUC and it is a lot closer to my house then my current school, and it has a gambit of companies that recruit on it's campuses, all the top accounting firms, IB's, all the consulting companies, more even then IU. Wow, sucks that I'm out of state, because looking at their req. my classes might transfer nicely, equiv to what I've taken. How does financial aid work for out of state students? Also though it says that all of there majors are closed, for students with 12-59 and 60+ does this mean you have to have 60cr of transferrable credit period, nothing more nothing less? Or just closed because the app deadline has passed?

04-10-2006, 05:52 PM

When you apply you can have less then 60 credits, but I think they want 60 credits by the time you enroll. U of I doesn't give preference to out or instate applicants and I have no idea about financial aid. Mssales, are you currently a sophomore? If you are a junior and if the transfer deadline already passed then I guess

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I got an email back from IU and I don't think I'm going to apply there because you must take so many pre-reqs there - "Overall 15 courses are required for Junior curriculum, six must be taken here" is what they sent me.

-Also, I always thought U of I had a better business school then IU, that is why I was wondering what all the fuss is about IU being such a good school for recruitment. UIUC gets plenty of consulting companies and investment banks recruiting there from what I hear.