<p>For an international student (rising senior) who can afford full pay, what is the ‘best value’ business or economics program that I can enter. Please recommend some schools & majors.</p>
<p>Currently I have a GPA of 3.98 (unweighted) and a SAT1 score of 2180 with reasonably good EC’s. Am taking SAT2’s in October and hoping to improve SAT1 in November.</p>
<p>Are you talking about best degree or college?</p>
<p>Degree…</p>
<p>Finance, accounting, information systems, operations management</p>
<p>School…</p>
<p>Google “top undergraduate business programs”</p>
<p>For example, is Stern (NYU) Finance, which is rated highly, worth the $50K price tag?</p>
<p>And would this compare with programs in need-aware schools such as Chicago Economics and Carroll (BC) Accounting in which I would have a chance of getting admission?</p>
<p>If I am spending $50K for tuition, where would I get the best deal? I am interested mainly in economics and finance.</p>
<p>Check this out</p>
<p>[5</a> Degrees Worth the Investment - Yahoo! Education](<a href=“Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos”>Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos)</p>
<p>Stern would get you the best Finance placement of anywhere. I myself am a Carroll student, and if you want to do accounting I honestly can’t think of anywhere else that is better (in the Northeast).</p>
<p>Stern for Finance is a very good option if you can get in considering that its near Wall Street (or so I was told).</p>
<p>Stern doesn’t have the best placement. For high finance, Harvard and specifically for undergrad business, Wharton (UPenn), have the best placement.</p>
<p>NYU Stern is more on par with business programs such as UMich Ross and Berkeley Haas.</p>
<p>True, but I think it might be a bit ill-advised to recommend an Ivy to a student especially since such schools are basically a crap shoot. Plus. I’m not sure if a sub 2200 SAT and “reasonably good” ECs will get him or her there. Such credentials should give him or her a good shot at Stern, Carroll, or Ross, which are probably the best finance programs he or she can have a good bet on getting admittance to. I don’t mention Haas because it doesn’t have an established finance program but rather a broad business administration program.</p>
<p>Great insights. Thanks to you all. </p>
<p>You are right, trizz75. My ‘full pay’ status will have no advantage in need-blind schools. However, I hope to have a good chance at Stern, Carroll, Tepper & Ross.</p>
<p>From the information you’ve provided, you appear to be a candidate for the schools that you’re interested in. </p>
<p>You might want to consider looking at a wider array of schools. Many schools offer equal, or even better recruiting than those that you have listed interest in, and although some do not offer “high-ranking” undergraduate business programs, they are very strong in Economics, and would therefore afford you good job opportunities for after college, and allow you to pursue an MBA some time after college, too. The business world is increasingly less about your background in business, and more about your overall skill set and ability to contribute to an enterprise as a person.</p>
<p>Here is another link from yahoo news, and it seems that a lot of people on these boards are wrong by saying that the business administration degree is useless:</p>
<p>[Best</a> Value Degrees - Yahoo! Education](<a href=“Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos”>Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos)</p>
<p>Conversely, many argue that a BBA is pretty useless. It’s synonymous with a management degree, and both don’t teach you a skill. Yes, people will get jobs with a BBA. Furthermore, those with a BBA from a top school (UNC, UC, etc) will probably have very good jobs prospects. Relatively speaking, however, business admin offers much less job security than an accounting, finance, or IS degree. </p>
<p>I mean, why do most top tier management programs require students to declare a specialization? They don’t want angry, unemployed alumni demoting the school’s reputation.</p>
<p>In Texas, BBA is just like BS or BA. Of course the pre-reqs are a little different but we still must have a major. BBA in Acct, BBA in Finance, etc…mine requires 36 hours of courses in the major, not much difference at all.</p>
<p>Trizz. A BBA is a DEGREE…Accounting, Finance, and IS are MAJORS. BBA, BS, BA, BComm, are all degree classifications under which majors/minors/programs fall. </p>
<p>And Tosh…you cannot just go around posting silly things like that from Yahoo when they do not even give a description of how they gathered their information. I have worked around a lot of different businesses the past 2 years and I can tell you that I have met one person who majored in “Business Administration” - the admin of my firm.</p>
<p>workingATbig4,
<p>There is a word-combination like: degree in accounting, degree in finance, etc. For instance, by earning a degree in accounting, your major is accounting, and by majoring in accounting, you obtain a degree in accounting. So, you cannot actually say that accounting is not a degree. What you probably meant is the concentration under a BBA, which might be either of those that you mentioned. </p>
<p>2) “I have worked around a lot of different businesses the past 2 years and I can tell you that I have met one person who majored in “Business Administration” - the admin of my firm.”</p>
<p>This sentence appears to be silly to me. Don’t you realize that the world does not revolve around you. If your proposition is true, then tens of thousands of students who major in business administration each year, are unemployed, and subsequently, their average income is 0$. Yet, the statistics proves otherwise. The average entry salary ranges between 35-whatever.</p>
<p>[Business</a> Administration Salary | Find Business Admin Salaries](<a href=“http://www.allbusinessschools.com/business-careers/business-admin/business-administration-salary]Business”>http://www.allbusinessschools.com/business-careers/business-admin/business-administration-salary)</p>
<p>[PayScale</a> - Business Degree Salaries, B.S. in Business Administration](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=Bachelor_of_Business_Administration_(BBA)/Salary]PayScale”>Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Salary | PayScale)</p>
<p>In addition, by obtaining the BBA degree, you can get a job in the following fields:</p>
<p>Consulting, Entrepreneurship, General Management, Human Resources, Operations Management, Strategic Planning, and so on.</p>
<p>Best value can have different meanings? Meaning the one that is most value because it gets you a lot money, provides worthy skills/work or good job security.</p>
<p>The best value degrees for me are Management Information System, Accounting, Entrpreneuship, and Finance. </p>
<p>Some the schools with the best Economics or business programs that money can buy are: UC Berkeley, USC, NYU, UTexas Austin, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Notre Dame, Washington U St. Louis, U Virginia, U North Carolina, Boston College.
Ivy Leagues, U Chicago, and Stanford really only have Econ programs except for University of Pennsylania which has an excellent biz program.</p>
<p>I’m sorry did you just try to trump real world experience with a payscale link? And your first link is an entire page speaking about the BBA DEGREE, hence the “concentration” salaries at the bottom of the page.</p>
<p>Realizing I was competing against people like you in interviews always put my mind at ease.</p>
<p>workingATbig4,</p>
<p>Assuming that you are 22 years old, how much of a real world experience you could possibly have? You can’t even present a legit argument/advise that is why I always have something to say, and prove you wrong. Your statements are based on individual experiences which make them weak. Do you know how many people I know in the accounting field? Yet, I’m not trying to prove something by using one certain case, for you should look at the majority if you want to find out the truth. We should present the ideas/advices, and it is for OP and other people to decide whether to listen to us or not. BTW, thanks for calling me an expert :)</p>