malibu727

One thing I would like to add is if your worried about social life and costs Pepperdine is a very flat choice. People think oh malibu! its the beach and the greatest place on earth! NOT. I'm on campus three days a week and as a local I know the town/college very well...it sucks. You could probably not even pay me to go "here". The social life is not dead...its non-existant. If you want a real beach town with fun Santa Barbara or San Diego are much better choices with legit schools. I hate to talk **** about my own city, but its the truth.

flyingllama

^ I'm going to second what this guy said. Pepperdine is very religious. Its beautiful location is definitely wasted on an extremely weak social life.

LSkaiWalk

ok thanks guys. im considering community college. but i heard its super crowded now and with budget cuts its gonna be really hard to take classes there. i tried to take a class over the summer there and EVERY class it offered was full. also, 2 years is actually a REALLY long time and im not sure if i quite have the work ethic. i think i'll just go with the not top tier (USC & Berk) i'll try USC. but pretty sure i'll get into a couple of: U San Diego, Santa Clara, U Miami, Cal Poly SLO, and I'd get a good social and academic experience there. if i dont make any of those. i would consider community college over say sdsu or asu or something like that.

thanks, yeah i dont think im gonna apply to pepperdine. and you just confirmed it. SB sounds awesome, but they dont have the business major. when you say san diego, do you mean ucsd, usd, or sdsu?? hahaha

any more advice is always welcomed. thanks guys.

seremarcus

UC Santa Barbara or UC Santa Cruz? The UC's are getting hard to get into, but you have a great shot at them. I think you would like USD also. Santa Clara is good and well respected. You could even venture to Colorado and apply to Univ of Denver - Daniels school of business.

LSkaiWalk

thanks marcus. well i like those schools. i went to camp at ucsb and i loved it and maybe that could help me get in. but both dont have business majors.. they just have business econ, which from what i heard is mainly all econ with a few accounting courses, and completely different that a typical business degree.. im considering them thouugh. thanks

Geil!

I wouldn't recommend USC anymore because of the costs. It's getting consistently more expensive by the year, and its undergraduate business program / etc. doesn't simply stack up against Berkeley in my opinion.

But it depends on what kind of business you want to do. If you're more financially based in terms of accounting, economics, etc - go to Berkeley. They have one of the top finance programs for undergraduates in the nation.

cbreeze

Claremont McKenna would be 2nd best after Haas. It is very selective though.

msett1

Why hasn't SDSU been mentioned? Aren't they one of the better undergrad business schools in California? Especially when it comes to the public universities.

flushmaverick

And just in case you don't know, the business economics major will be phased out by the Fall 2011 quarter. It will be replaced by a new major called "economics and accounting," which just requires a few more accounting courses than the old business economics major.

hmom5

It's in a whole different league than the UCs. Job prospects would not be nearly as good. The OP would be better off going from a CC to UC or at a private like SCU if he can afford it.

StephenR

SDSU is a fine undergrad business school. It won't place you on the fast track immediately on graduating, but it is well known in the business world and a good transcript from SDSU in accounting or finance or international business will get respect. Also SDSU offers MS business degrees that allow graduates in other majors to get up to speed in a business discipline at fairly low cost in as little as 45 units.

Also, if you want to interview for a job in San Diego or elsewhere in So Cal there is a very good chance that the hiring decision will be made by a SDSU grad.

nujabes29

@stephen

Im curious as to how you think CSULB stacks up vs SDSU; business department wise.

StephenR

I have no idea, but here's how I would research it:

Look at the section for the business department in each school's official catalog (online) and compare the course requirments and descriptions for each major. They are probably very similar but having a greater range of specialties at one school or the other would be something to consider.

Look at the faculty listings on the web page of each business department. Which department has more faculty?

Look at the class schedules for business courses at each school. Note the names of professors for some of the more important offerings like intermediate level finance and accounting. Check some of these names out on RateMyProfessor.com to see what their students thought of them.

Compare graduate program offerings of the two schools. SDSU has a pretty full range of graduate programs but I don't know about CSULB. Most Cal State campuses don't have graduate programs. This isn't in the main catalogs so you will have to pull up the Graduate Bulletin.

Bottom line is that Cal State schools and most other state schools will give you a fine start in business if you get top grades. If you finish with a 2.8 gpa it's a whole nother story.

msett1

How would you compare CSUF vs SDSU? I may transfer to CSUF because of my job, would I be doing myself any type of disservice?

0zzy

Here, watch a video preview of the CSUF Business program yourself:
http://x3.ttv.fullerton.edu/PGShow/F...haylo_Tour.mov (quicktime)

CSUF has the biggest program, they just invested a lot of money into it, and they have a good concentration for those interested in the media world, but I'm not sure how good they are compared to SDSU. I'm sure they are about the same perhaps.