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Undergraduate Business Schools
nickthekid
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I would also look at Pitt. URichmond. Babson of course.
But you are asking for both quality and cost evaluations. These are tougher to generalize.
If the NPC for Lehigh looks affordable, you will need to show a lot of interest. Try and visit...and try hard to attend any and all local events.
Look at Miami Ohio, USC Columbia, UCincinnati, UMN Twin Cities, UIowa, UIndiana.
Seconding Wake Forest, Richmond.
Smeal (PSU) and Gabelli (Fordham) would be worth a look due to good ROI but not sure they'd be affordable if your budget is 25k.
Run the NPC for UNC too -- bigger reach but they are a top business school and meet full need aid even for OOS (unlike UMich or the UCs).
(Bias: DS19 starts there in 2 weeks...)
There is no easy, uncontroversial way to answer your question, especially without knowing more about you, your state residency status, family income/assets, and budget.
Various rankings exist for undergraduate/graduate business programs, with or without considering costs. They don't all come up with the same lists. You may want to look at the Poets & Quants ranking, USNWR, Forbes, etc., to identify schools that show up near the top in multiple lists, or in categories that most interest you (finance/marketing/other). Some of them may turn out to be among the best net-price values for you IF (a) you qualify for need-based aid, (b) you qualify for large merit grants, or (c) they are public universities in your home state.
Once you've identified schools that seem to meet your needs, run the online net price calculators on them. Your home state's public flagship may be a good starting point.
If you are eligible for big financial aid awards or can get better merit awards than that, those are other venues. But through the NY SIP , it’s possible for someone like my kid, or his peers who don’t qualify for fin aid to get a nice piece of the Cornell Land Grant college’s STEM based business programs paid. Also Binghamton has some business programs that qualify.
I don’t remember your financial particulars, so you might be able to do better but this is a guaranteed grant if accepted by a listed STEM program.