Hey, I’m a rising senior and I was wondering which schools do you guys think have the best undergraduate business programs.
Can the Admins remove the stupid post above?
@YPPHDCCB tell us about yourself, home state, GPA, test scores…
“From my experience, personal and otherwise, what I can tell you is that regardless of where you attend an undergraduate where you do your graduate studies is more critical.”
It might be more critical for certain positions, but it certainly isn’t for that first job. OP please disregard the advice of contactivyready. It sounds like it comes straight from a website.
Sorry I should have listed my academic credentials with the question.
I have a 4.0 GPA unweighted, a 4.3 GPA weighted, which is the highest that my school offers, a 34 cumulative ACT score, 2180 SAT score, 3 SAT II’s all above 700 in math, history, and science, and 5 AP exams two of which are 4s and the other three haven’t been score yet.
@contactivyready Go market your fee-based services elsewhere. It is shameful to cloak your commercial interests as advice to high school students.
You are a top student. Schools like Cornell, Boston College, NYU, Notre Dame, Villanova, Michigan, Indiana, Lehigh, Bucknell, Richmond, Penn, Emory are schools you should consider. I would use just the ACT score if possible. Offhand, I think you have to send SATs to Penn since you took them already.
@contactivyready please go away and market elsewhere. I am sure other parents will have the same opinion as I have.
Hopefully the Admins will remove your post and ban you.
There seem to be a great disconnect between the value of a business degree (or any degree for that matter) from highly ranked business schools and success in the business world. Below, are links to a few of the top Fortune 500 Company Executive Management Teams. Take a close look at the undergraduate (or even the graduate) Schools these executives attended. Very few went to, what one would considered top-tier Universities/Colleges. Why is that?
http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/leadership/executive-management/
http://fortune.com/fortune500/att-inc-11/
http://www.att.com/gen/investor-relations?pid=7824
http://www.verizon.com/about/our-company/executive-bios
Feel free to pick any Fortune 500 Company at random and look at the Executive Management Teams from these companies. This begs the question: if these highly selective schools are so “good”, why is it that more of their graduates are not rising to very senior levels at these successful companies? I wish someone a lot more smarter than I am, could explain to me (as if I’m a six year old), this great disparity/dichotomy. Are the college graduates from these world class business programs “stuck” in middle level positions within these organization and if so, why?
@Psata82 Not all great leaders go to the top schools. No one ever said it was required. If you take a closer look at CEOs you will see dominance by the top schools. Clearly that is the case.
The other point is typically kids from top schools go into financial services, hedge funds, private equity and consulting where most will run from management responsibility. That is not the goal. You cannot judge the value of top business schools based on Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 hiring. Let’s be honest, would you as a 22 year old turn down a 70 - 90k job at Bain to work in a management training position for 45k at Verizon? That Bain job could be paying 250k after just three years. I am not kidding, thats what some of these kids get paid. We have three this summer, juniors, making a lot of dough just for the summer.
The Fortune CEO example comes up a lot but it isn’t relevant.