Abetterlife

I am interested in these schools. For the purposes of this evaluation, please ignore financial costs. I would like to know which should be my ideal school, for which the criterion are, in order of importance.

Academics-Tough but rewarding, good profs, enriching experience

Job placement/Salary-perhaps the only quantifiable figure, but nonetheless, prestige amongst employers matters

Facilities- not limited to gym, including a career center, and since my passion is film, a good film program/ movie theater

Off campus experience- I am not a party kind of guy, but I do want to have fun

Overall-which uni will give me the best overall experience, and lifelong, like minded friends. Obviously you can’t answer that totally, but I am sure you know what I am hinting at.

Emory (Goizueta) vs Texas (McCombs) vs NYU (Stern) vs USC (Marshall)

creamgethamoney

I'd say it goes:

1. Stern

gap

2. Mccombs

3. Marshall

gap

4. Emory

if you're looking at banking, stern is a lot better than the others and mccombs does alright for energy trading/banking in Texas. USC may be better than McCombs if you want to be in Cali or the west coast though.

Abetterlife

How come emory is so low, didn't business week rank it well. Also, what about cornell's AEM?

givings

We looked at UT and NYU. Austin is a beautiful campus with great weather and all of the "extras" you are looking for. But it is not New York. We love New York too, but the urban campus setting was not our first choice.

If you can get into McComb's Business Honors Program, it is the best. Most students double major with another business field, usually finance or accounting.

Abetterlife

What about Emory's program

rodney

Emory's film program is non-existent.....and while an EXCELLENT business school, according to recent grads we know, it doesn't open many doors for recruiting....we know at least 3 2009 Goizueta grads who are not working and did not receive many interviews over the past year.....

overall experience IMO goes to USC and Texas.....not a big fan of NYU in terms of an all around campus experience....

ponder

UT's business school is severely underrated, in my opinion it is better than stern's (and all the rest's)

creamgethamoney

^Texas is good if you don't mind staying in Texas (and with their economy/low cost of living/non-freezing weather, why not), but it does not have the prestige that NYU does outside of the south I think. On the west coast, most people think UT is just another southern, football partying school, but most people know how good stern is. Just my 2 cents.

openedskittles

Academics- According to LSAC, USC and NYU have grade inflation and the other two have deflation.

Job placement/Salary- NYU has really good placement on Wall Street (go figure). McCombs sends about 1 in 5 grads into investment banking and another 1 in 5 into consulting, which are pretty much the most prestigious and selective starting jobs for business majors. It has the best showing of any university in the big 4, too, so I'd put it second. USC might be slightly better than Emory.

Facilities- I'm not sure about the others, but McCombs has either the highest or second highest rated career services of any school and the actual building is across the street from the biggest gym on campus. UT also has the 4th largest stadium in America.

Off campus experience- NYU has clubs and big city stuff, UT has the live music capital of the world and 6th street, USC has a lot of commuters and Emory is.. in Atlanta.

Overall- USC is trying to model its program after the McCombs school at UT. Enough said. NYU Stern will probably give you the best prestige and opportunity, but UT would be a more traditional college experience if you value that. USC will give you California and Emory will give you a backup.

Btw, I would rank them in the same order as cream, but I would say the biggest gap is actually in the place cream didn't put a gap.

Abetterlife

Thanks a lot for you insight.
I was wondering why businessweek gave Emory such a high ranking. Since i have been nominated by gor the goizueta scholarship, do you think that i should attend even with a modest schol? I know i will not win it, but i might get some award.

Actually, does anyone know anything about uscs Business with an emphasis on cinematic arts?

kmzizzle

usc def has grade deflation if anything
although they removed the curve, theres no inflation from what ive seen here

rodney

Abetterlife: if I remember correctly, Goizueta Scholars awards are all or none (unlike Emory Scholars)..that is there are 10 winners and that's it...

My daughter was nominated two years ago; didn't make a difference in admissions; she was waitlisted RD (didn't accept waitlist)....best decision she ever didn't make

openedskittles

I'm not speculating that USC has grade inflation, the LSAC reports grade inflation/deflation by comparing graduates GPAs with scores on grad school admissions tests. Quite frankly, there isn't a much better way to do it than that and according to it, USC has very minor grade inflation. Perhaps USC has some whininess inflation, too.

RML

Definitely Stern.

bearcats

stern... not even close