<p>man who cares guys 
we are wastin every minute of our life that we can never get back arguin the validity of BW ranking or which school is better. yes IU is probaly not better than haas and yes cornell is probaly slightly better but who cares? what i do know is that IU is gud ENOUGH to have at least a decent shot or an oppurtunity to get the ______(list job you want) you want provided you worked hard :)</p>
<p>No, apparently at IU, you wonât have the oppurtunity to get a top job.</p>
<p>But seriously, If youâre qualified youâll get the job, hell even some students at my school get good jobs with GE, etc.</p>
<p>I personally feel that there are only a few schools worth going to for undergrad business. There are a lot of programs where I donât see the long term value of an ug business degree. A business degree does not give you a free ticket into upper level management later in oneâs career. In the end, the most ambitious and talented students will make it to the top, whether they studied business, engineering, economics, or something unrelated. </p>
<p>I heard somewhere that business is the most popular undergrad major in the United States. I have to ask Why? Outside a small core of schools(Indiana is included in the core), a business degree is not really that marketable since everyone can study it. Sure, top students from even mediocre schools will get good jobs. But for the vast majority of students who land somewhere in the middle, above or below, there were better options. Like receiving a more academic education (rather than pre-professional).</p>
<p>Engineers and quant. economics majors have equal success in business, if not more. In my opinion, that is because not everyone can do it, unlike a business major(if youâre not heavy quant). Completing an engineering curriculum shows much more about your ability than completing a business major at a school like VTech or Penn State or places that have ridiculously huge ug business schools. Many students at these schools who study business simply study it for the dough. And at many schools, business majors do a lot less work. They donât want to learn, they donât want an education, they just want $$$. They want that rubber stamp that will allow them to go out into the business. I donât like this philosophy one bit. Without working hard, you cannot be successful(working at daddyâs company doesnât make u successful).They donât seem to understand that a majority of business majors donât land the top jobs. If you look at the executives at Fortune 500 companies, youâll see that most of them have a strong background in either engineering or in the liberal arts, later followed up with an MBA.</p>
<p>I might be wrong about Kelley, but I think an average Kelley student would have been better off challenging himself in a different major/university and developing more as an academic student. With that said, the top kids at Kelly seem to be getting a good deal with plentiful job opportunities. However, I wish that they too would expand their academic horizons and stop worrying about the dough.</p>
<p>Perhaps, Iâm biased and uninformed. Feel free to tell me so if you think I am. After all, Iâm not even studying business(though I was considering it). Instead, I will be studying Econ at Northwestern.</p>
<p>Engineering majors, are in a league of there own, they just seem to be adepth at anything. I think you hit it on the head though, the most ambitous, and hardworking ones will be the ones who make it to the top.</p>
<p>Top 10 in USNews⊠Top 10 in Business Week</p>
<p>IU! (clap clap) IU! (clap clap)</p>
<p>Hoosier Daddy?</p>
<p>yea true tat, busines majors are really common cuz everyone goes for it. and economics majors would probaly get the same jobs as business majors provided they are smart and obviously have a econ. major at a TOP school. i mean an econ. major at a crappy school isnt gona get you anywhere other than the window at the drive thru in mcdonalds lol </p>
<p>about the kelley student bein better off studying something more academic or challening, i tink that would depend on the student maybe he/she wants to study busines or its the most they can handle/grasp? but i do support your view that people should expand their academic horizons and not just go for a vocational degree. </p>
<p>btw i chose IU over ucla but tats just me, everyone is gona be different on which school they choose.</p>
<p>You guys are so clueless with your knowledge of IUâs business school, itâs amusing. Keep it coming, I like reading these posts.</p>
<p>âThey donât have high test scores like USC!â</p>
<p>âThey are in Indiana⊠how can they be good!â</p>
<p>âTheyâre ranked in the 70s in US News⊠their B-School canât be good!â</p>
<p>I honestly donât know how some of you got into the schools you got into.</p>
<p>quant. econ and econ are not the same thing?</p>
<p>well mi brother is a econ major at amherst and he says econ is just econ. im assumin quant econ and econ are probaly the same thing, would be weird to divide it like tat</p>
<p>IU is #1 yaaaa. Dcho711 is my s0-cal biotch yaaaaaaaaa!</p>
<p>Dude Stop Callin Me Your Socal Biotch!!! I Am Nobodies Biyotch!! Jeeeez Lol :)</p>
<p>Iâm not picking on Kelley. I just need to use one ug b-school as an example because I donât have time to research all the schools.</p>
<p>Since everyone has been saying Kelleyâs biggest strength is job opportunities, I looked into it. Hereâs what I found:
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<p>I compare this to a school that I felt didnât get a ranking it deserved. That school is CMU Tepper.
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<p>doesnt the average salary of each school differ based on the location? i mean cost of living in the northeast region especially places like NY would be higher than midwest areas right? although i tink cost of living in chicago is probaly gona be the same for nyc or laâŠ</p>
<p>Dont junior ibankers make more than that list from Kelley?</p>
<p>these rankings are just as flawd as U.S. News. Nothing is solved in terms of undergraduate business programs.</p>
<p>Richmond a liberal arts school places in the top 25? Doesnât make sense at all.</p>
<p>BYU top 10? you have got to be kidding me. SMU above USC, I find this ranking list nearly as useless as U.S. News</p>
<p>btw, is econ at cmu (part of tepper now) well regarded?
i think i heard cmu has #1 quant. econ program somewhere</p>
<p>yea bw ranking is pretty crazy⊠i bet they knew that people were gona start yellin and fightin when they released the rankings, im sure bw knew what they were doin because if they really think thats how that ranking should go then damn i sorta question their credibility as a business news magazineâŠor maybe just maybe, one of the guys tat works at bw went to BYU or SMU or wutever school that shouldnt be above the real top bschools and Fâed it up so their schools look better. hehe i smell conspiracy theory</p>
<p>yea, i suggest people on this board should become less elitist. itâs not like âthis guys goes to Temple University, he sucks at lifeâ, lots of successful people donât go to high-ranked college.</p>
<p>dcho: âhe says econ is just econâ
No. Most people pursuing econ either focus on macroecon or microecon. Macro examines an economy as a whole and is more useful for policy makers. People who focus on this side of econ are set up for a law degree and/or work in government/agencies. Micro focuses on individual actors in the economy. People who focus on this side of econ are set up to work in business. Then there are a bunch of subsections of economics. I will learn more about them when I go to college.</p>
<p>The areas that I want to focus in is financial econ and mathematical econ. Similar to finance, but there is a lot more mathematics involved(which is why I plan to double major in math).</p>