<p>How is someone that attends the best Business school or Ivy better off than someone who goes to a good state school studying undergraduate Accounting and Finance? Is it worth $160,000 dollars ($40,000 X 4)? A CPA is a CPA.</p>
<p>those best business schools and ivy league schools have better recruiting.</p>
<p>obviously if you’re not interested in those ‘elite’ jobs where they work you hard (90-100 hour weeks) or intense environments (trading) then what school you go to will be less relevant. </p>
<p>most of the kids on this board have no intention of getting a CPA.</p>
<p>This is true, however. Big ‘elite’ jobs do come to good state schools. Also, a CPA that becomes a parner will make “big money”. </p>
<p>check out the salaries after 10 years <a href=“http://www.hollandcpasearch.com/survey.htm[/url]”>http://www.hollandcpasearch.com/survey.htm</a></p>
<p>yeah I go to a state school that’s regarded as good and has great recruitment, but I felt that your post was more about lesser state schools</p>
<p>When the word “State school” is used on CC, it means all state schools with the exception of UVa, Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Texas-Austin, W&M, and UNC.</p>
<p>Hey dcfca I know this is not related too much to the topic, but is regular McCombs that lower in terms of recruiting and job opportunities even if you have a good GPA, etc?</p>
<p>Some people might like to think that in the future, 160k won’t be worth as much to them</p>
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<p>Regular McCombs is good, I’ve looked into it and have seen kids go to all the ‘great’ jobs (banking, big 4 accounting, etc) it’s just a matter of you being motivated enough to go and land internships to help you get there.</p>
<p>its strange to me to see such a huge jump (750K) from senior manager to partner? is there really that big a jump in one or two years?</p>
<p>"This is true, however. Big ‘elite’ jobs do come to good state schools. Also, a CPA that becomes a parner will make “big money”. </p>
<p>check out the salaries after 10 years <a href="http://www.hollandcpasearch.com/survey.htm">http://www.hollandcpasearch.com/survey.htm</a>"</p>
<p>To the people who are looking for elite jobs, the recruiting is much much less at any state school, than at the ivy league schools. Also partners at CPA firms do not make that much money. Most of these students laugh at the idea of working up to 300k, that is miniscule in their mind.</p>
<p>“Also partners at CPA firms do not make that much money”</p>
<p>Yeah ok,even more at the big four ,lol</p>
<p>just an fyi - my dad and many of his friends went to what you all call
" crappy State Schools" with degrees in business. Many of them make high six figure incomes, live in million dollars houses and drive nice cars. It not just the degree and where it’s from, it’s what you do with it that matters.</p>
<p>“Yeah ok,even more at the big four ,lol”</p>
<p>Umm the people we are talking about consider what big four partners make to be peanuts.</p>
<p>You should still go to the best school you can afford to go to. You might need the extra networking and recruitment that comes from the better schools. Also, you might change your mind and decide you want to pursue careers where school prestige is important for recruitment, such as IB and consulting, which is what everyone here wants to do anyway.</p>
<p>For accounting, as long as you go to a large somewhat well known (at least in its region) state college and graduate top 10% of your class, it makes no difference where you go. Basically we’re talking the top 90 colleges in the USNWR. My friend graduated top of his class at a college ranked from a large well known state college in the mid-west and he has offers from all the big 4. From certain unheard of colleges (western michigan/ oklahoma city univ.) not ranked in the top 100; the big 4 do NOT recruit. I have heard that the valedictorian from Western Michigan didn’t even get an interview offer from PWC. He’s now forced to get a master’s as Michigan if he wants a job with a big 4.</p>