Accepted to UC Berkeley and USC for business. Which would you choose?

[Trojanman720]

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It’s hard to find undergrad business rankings. The USNWR one is premium, its free page only lists the top three, so it includes Haas but not USC…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/co...progs_brief.php[/url][/quote]”>http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/co...progs_brief.php

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That’s old news. I cited that fact ages ago, go check yourself. And it doesn’t mention anything about faculty quality.

Looking at the MBA programs (a lot of the MBA faculty at Cal teaches undergrads too, and the same is true at Marshall), here’s a faculty ranking from the Economist magazine of the top 100 plus MBA programs. USC ranks #85, Haas #22 (kind of low for Haas, but our students tend to be critical.) In any case the gap is very, very wide there…</p>

<p><a href=“WhichMBA?”>WhichMBA?;

<p>Here’s another one, from the Financial Times’ Global MBA ranking that has Haas at 16 in the world, and USC at #54. Notice that Haas fares significantly better in the placement category. Haas is at #16 in the world for “Employment and Career”, while USC is at #54.</p>

<p>Here’s a faculty ranking focusing on finance. It has Haas at #1, USC at #20, tied with 4 other schools (middle column.)
<a href=“global-derivatives.com”>global-derivatives.com;

<p>…"The {Financial Times} also rated Haas faculty members among the top 10 in the world for the fourth time in the last seven years. "</p>

<p><a href=“http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cach...ca&ct=clnk&cd=6[/url][/quote]”>http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cach...ca&ct=clnk&cd=6

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The last i checked, the OP isn’t deciding on which MBA program to matriculate to. You know why you only cited MBA references and not ug sources? I’ll tell you why–because there isn’t any evidence out there suggesting that haas UG faculty is “clearly superior” to marshall’s. Even Businessweek gives marshall ug and haas ug the same grade for teaching quality. Now why would that be if Haas ug is “clearly superior”? </p>

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The fact that they don’t even recruit at USC is quite damning. That also indicates that other top-flight companies have similar cut-offs. I don’t think that there are national top-flight companies that recruit at USC but not at Haas.

Prove it. A list, an article, anything…</p>

<p>The fact that they don’t even recruit at USC proves that one top firm out of many doesn’t recruit here. It doesn’t mean they don’t hire SC grads. And like someone else said earlier, frankly your odds of getting hired at Mckinsey are slim to none, no matter what ug you went to.</p>