AznN3rd

I'm currently trying to decide between these two schools for a potential career in investment banking. Any tips?

Location: NYU, can't compare Berkeley to Greenwich. When I first visited Berkeley, I thought I was in the wrong city because Berkeley looks so crappy.
Tuition: Berkeley, 26K vs 38K
Student Body: Berkeley, NYU has lower admission standards and probably less motivated students.
Stability: NYU, Still have to apply to Haas junior year

Issues considering:
-Education
-Internship opportunities
-Recruitment

r3volut1on

Ok, if youre making this decision strictly off which school will give you better chances at landing an analyst position out of college, the choice is quite clearly NYU. Stern has competitive rates into banks, and the location beats out Berkeley for Wall Street recruiting. However, if you get the grades and actively pursue this career path, Haas wont put you at any significant disadvantage. Beyond the above discrepancy, youll have to ask yourself which is a better fit.

bcp05

SF is also the center of tech banking however, and tech is one of the only sectors that has not completely fall off the charts recently...

BedHead

I hope you got to the non-crappy parts of campus, meaning off Telegraph and out of Sproul Plaza.

tkang456

berkeley isnt 26k...(unless you are not cali resident)

zoolander

tisch hall is a piece of SH IT too but they are rebuilding the whole thing.
google "concourse project NYU Stern"

quag_mire

zoolander, the Kaufman management center (the main stern building i think?) seems to be in pretty good shape...i think incoming Stern freshman are going to take classes in that Kaufman building

bay-area

I think Berkeley's students are TOO competitive, so you might have a problem with those kinds of students. I'd choose Stern just because it provides more job security after college plus you could always move back to California after graduating Stern and work in SF or something..

zoolander

kaufman is the grad building but ugrad does take classes there occasionally

they have to take courses there now i think because the ugrad building is under construction

Shadey

im in the exact same position....

i see that stern is rated at 8th whilst haas is at 11th in the B school listing..

However i have heard that generally if not going specifically for Investment Banking, Berkeley is a better school...does that mean that the difference of those 3 places on the list doest mean too much? Specially if i dont end up wanting to do banking?

Furthermore...can i ask...is there much recruiting at berkeley from nyu firms, or is there a east/west divide to worry about?

Cheers

zoolander

on us news and reports stern is i believe 4 in ugrad and 10 for grad

Shadey

bcp05

nyu has no name value on the west coast, while berkeley certainly does on the east coast. i scoff at the idea that nyu gives you better job security, where the hell did you come up with that? finally, berkeley always ranks higher in business school rankings, at both the grad and undergrad leve, so you can take that for what its worth

vector

of course, bcp05 goes to UCB. When you make an augument like NYU has no name value on the west coast, you need to support it with facts.

CNI

Lol, go with where you want to work. If you want to stay in SF or go to LA, go with Berkeley. If you want Wall Street, go to Stern. I don't understand how Haas students are too competitive, yet Sternies aren't? I've always heard that Stern is extremely cutthroat. A lot of them are there bc. they didn't get into Wharton (face it, it's true), but that doesn't mean that they aren't any less motivated. But hey, never went there, so don't trust me 100%.