WShopeful

I am down to the last two schools before making a decision. Between the two, which one will be better in preparing me for an IB career?

Any input is greatly appreciated!

quag_mire

umm, I doubt many people have even heard of Carroll and I doubt that there is any serious recruiting done at Carroll for IB....i may be wrong about my previous two claims, but im certain that recruiting at NYU CAS is far superior to recruiting in Carroll, especially for econ/math/comp sci majors etc
I'd pick NYU CAS without any hesitation if i were you

WShopeful

Thank you quag_mire.

Actually Carroll is BC's business school and its undergrad finance program is ranked about 13 or 14 at both the USN and BW.

I made a mistake by not applying to Stern and thus the dilemma.

quag_mire

oh my bad lol...i googled carroll university and came across some college called carroll lol...didn't realize that it was BC's business school....

aj16

Actually BC Carroll is quite well recruited for IB
These are the top recruiters for Carroll
Company Name/ No. Hired: Ernst & Young/12
Company Name/No. Hired: Citigroup/9
Company Name/No. Hired: Deloitte & Touche/9
Company Name/No. Hired: KPMG/9
Company Name/No. Hired: UBS/8
Company Name/No. Hired: Deloitte Consulting/6
Company Name/No. Hired: L.E.K. Consulting/6
Company Name/No. Hired: PricewaterhouseCoopers/6
Company Name/No. Hired: General Electric/5
Company Name/No. Hired: State Street/5
Company Name/No. Hired: Barclays Capital/4
Company Name/No. Hired: CIT Group/4
Company Name/No. Hired: EMC/4
Company Name/No. Hired: Liberty Mutual/4
Company Name/No. Hired: Accenture/3
Company Name/No. Hired: Bank of America/3
Company Name/No. Hired: Goldman Sachs/3
Company Name/No. Hired: Lincoln Financial Group/3
Company Name/No. Hired: JPMorgan Chase/3
Company Name/No. Hired: Macy's/3

But i dunno anything about recruiting at NYU CAS so i ant help you there.

kmzizzle

can some1 find cas stats?

WShopeful

Thank you aj16.

That sure helps.

Anyone has similar stats for NYU CAS?

WShopeful

I really need to make a decision tonight.

Anyone Knows about NYU CAS grad placement in IB? Please chime in.

Thanks!

aj16

Sorry, i'm finding it incredibly hard to find CAS stats. I dont think they would release them so I dunno if anyone knows them. Although BC Carroll has a nice profile on businessweek that might help.
Boston College : Undergraduate Profile – BusinessWeek

mikeBtams

im in nyu and will be studying econ + philosophy (i recommend that cas students interested in ib study something only econ).. so maybe i can shed some light onto this topic

as long as your gpa is solid there are no advantages that stern students have over cas students.. (solid is around 3.5+) job postings are open to everyone at nyu
firm such as gs and citi come to campus and explain that they welcome cas students and often prefer people who don't study business..
i know a bunch cas students that went into ib

i can't speak about bc's b-school, so i won't.. but remember the benefit of going to nyu is the ability to do internships during the year.. there are so many smaller firms that don't necessarily formally recruit, but still offer internships.. trust me, this really gives you a leg up when formal bb recruiting comes around

overall, nyu as a name has a stronger rep. than bc especially in nyc
that said, either school will open a lot of doors for you particularly if you do well + get involved

nauru

The above statistics are useless for your purposes. Why? Because they do not say what roles students were hired into. My guess is that the majority went into back office roles (data entry, trade settlement, etc). And even if you are in the back office at Morgan Stanley, you are not actually a banker and opportunities in the future will reflect that fact. Places like Baruch College are also recruited by all the top IBs -- for back office positions. Back office is not competitive at all really to get a job, and this is reflected in the salary level for back office work. Many of these functions are now done in India actually. Demand more from Carroll's careers service; demand to see how many of these people were actually hired for front office positions.

IMO you are far better off with the world class econ program at NYU.

WShopeful

Thank you both, mikeBtams and nauru, your comments definitely help!

Actually I am still undecided at this point but that I will have to make a decision soon (either before the mail cut-off time(for NYU) or midnight(on line for BC).

WShopeful

Thank you aj16 too, still wondering....

zoolander

there are resources that only stern kids get. we definitely get preferential treatment

kmzizzle

like what (over cas)