beckybfc

forgot to say - i dont want somewhere religion is forced or anything, i was christened RC at birth but i dont believe in any of it.

LSkaiWalk

yeah. we seem to be in the same boat.

can someone explain to me more about a business management degree?? is that just the basics for business?? or is that more like training to be a manager?? im kind of confused..

yeah USC seems to be the god choice.

i've heard lots of bad things about UCR.

santa clara and lmu are jesuit, which means there extremely open minded and lots of athhiests go too. usd is catholic, but only 55% or something like that is catholic.

yeah i'd rather go to a more diverse place too.

any more advice anyone?? and can you answer my question about what a management major is??

Kulakai

jesuit universities don't force anything on you so don't worry and don't take that into consideration when deciding.

A BSBA is a general business degree, usually with a senior concentration. This concentration is either management, marketing, finance, accounting(in some cases), MIS, or other concentrations depending on what your primary interest is.

All BSBA's generally cover basic accounting, economics, marketing, operations mgmt, and leadership through the degree requirements before moving onto your senior concentration classes.

Bachelor of Business Administration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

LSkaiWalk

kk thankss. that helped clear things up.

how would university of san diego, a non-jesuit catholic school compare to the jesuit ones??

im not catholic, and was interested in that school. ??

thanks.

Kulakai

That would be a question for a USD student in the USD forums I'd guess.

However, I'm not sure I'd let a school being catholic stop me from wanting to attend if they had the perfect program of study for me.

beckybfc

so it makes no difference to the admission or experience i'd have going to a religious uni?

evilmindbulgaria

What can you say about San Diego State's business programs?

malibu727

your best matches seem to be the same as mine
USC, USD, and UCI. out of the three usc has the best school hands down, however it is harder to get in to and the city....is the ghetto.
USD is expensive and its ranking/rep is very similar to UCI.
I do not know what your talking about saying the UCI campus is bad, its an awsome campus in an incredabily clean city. Its also the cheapest of the three...hence it is my first choice.

LSkaiWalk

kk. thanks for the feedback. i only got the info about UCI from this forum, so maybe im wrong! thankss!! more feedback is always nice!

LSkaiWalk

any more feedback from anyone??

0zzy

UC Irvine just started their undergraduate business program last year. They are accepting only 15 transfer students next fall (2010) and not sure how many freshman applicants.

UC Riverside I was considering a bit too until I realized that just because it has UC next to the name doesn't mean it's good, and it's in Riverside hah.

CSU Fullerton just built a brand new business school, it's pretty sexy and it serves as the biggest business school in California. But, it's a commuter school (unless you are one of the 800 who live on campus, I guess).

CSU Long Beach has an impacted program, but I think that's just because people want to live in Long Beach.

It seems that money / where in California isn't really options for you, just the best (but not Berkley best). I'd say USC, or San Diego, or somewhere that will give you the 4-year experience in a populated city.

LSkaiWalk

kk thanks. ya good anaylsis of those schools.

ya im thinkn USC, and then san diego. also probably cal poly slo and santa clara. if i could get into one of those id be happy. thanks man.

LSkaiWalk

also, are there any 5 year MBA / ba programs that could work for me?? i think u usually get experience and then do the mba, but are there anything like that that could work??

0zzy

UCLA and Pepperdine, google is your friend btw . Forums take long and can be inaccurate, just search the school websites or google "5 year MBA [school here]"

therealist

I'm not sure if you are a high school student, but i'm guessing you are if you say weighted in the first post. and I haven't read every post in this thread, but here's some of my utterings or points.

Have you considered transferring? If you aren't lazy or haven't taken any college courses at a community college, you start off with a new slate, take new courses and build up that gpa.

Its definitely difficult to transfer to Haas, but most people don't make the right choices when choosing their course load when they try to transfer. If you plan carefully you can get a 4.0 at community college, and start some own independent projects, business wise or your own interest and you'll be able to transfer to Haas, USC, or any other business school in california. UC Irvine just opened a business school, which I think could possibly do well in a couple of years. Seriously, consider trying to transfer and taking courses at a community college, don't worry about the stigma with your friends or whatnot and if they give you crap then they aren't really looking out for your best interests, if you have the work ethic, then you can go to community college and transfer to any top business school in California, I've read a lot of posts and seen quite a few people follow this route and be successful

Good Luck