Colleges similar to MIT?

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<p>I’m looking for a prestigious school with good science and business majors
I’ll probably look into chemical engineering/chemistry and minor in business and management.
If I don’t make it to MIT, what are some good backups? Colleges that are more selective than MIT also count.</p>

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<p>Carnegie Mellon University
university of Pennsylvania (especially the jerome fisher management & technology program)</p>

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<p>rochester institute of technology has good sciencey stuff, and I’m pretty sure they have business majors too (check on that)</p>

<p>but if you’re a candidate for MIT, RIT can definitely be considered a safety school</p>

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<p>Princeton, yeah?</p>

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<p>stanford berkeley harvard cornell northwestern columbia UCLA UChicago Texas-Austin</p>

<p>(econ (for undergrad), if not business)</p>

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<p>Putting out a second recommendation for Carnegie Mellon. Fantastic sciences and top notch business school.</p>

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<p>MIT’s fiercest rivals for sciences and egineering are Caltech, Stanford and UC Berkeley</p>

<p>Alternative schools to MIT:
CMU
Cornell
UMich
NU
some of the ivies
Rice
JHU
rest of the top UC schools
Olin</p>

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<p>Don’t forget Tufts!</p>

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<p>^ Yes Tufts must be there too along with UT-Austin and UI-Urbana. Amongst the privates, USC is also a good alternative to MIT for engineering. </p>

<p>Amongst the LACs, there’s Pomona and Hurvey Mudd for sciences.</p>

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<p>How do you minor in management at Tufts … or Rice, or JHU, or most of the UCs? ditto for Harvey Mudd and Pomona.</p>

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<p>if you don’t get into MIT, you might want to look at some safeties:
harvard
yale
princeton</p>

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<p>Rice has a minor in management. They also have a minor in computational finance. </p>

<p>From the Rice website: “The Undergraduate Business Minor is an integrated set of six courses designed to provide Rice undergraduates with a foundation in the essential business disciplines.” Link to Jones Graduate School of Management: <a href=“http://jonesgsm.rice.edu/jonesgsm/Default.asp[/url]”>http://jonesgsm.rice.edu/jonesgsm/Default.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Here’s a link to COFES: Center for Computational Finanace and Economic Systems (at Rice): <a href=“http://www.cofes.rice.edu/[/url]”>http://www.cofes.rice.edu/&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>Rice is very strong in natural sciences and engineering, so the OP’s interest in chemistry and chem engineering fits with Rice’s strengths. Also, due to broad distribution requirements, it’s easy to double major or major/minor.</p>

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<p>WPI, I would definitely look into it. It is an excellent science school, but I am not sure how much it offers in the business department. It is worth a second look though.</p>

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<p>Princeton has great science, but no business.</p>

<p>Plus Princeton sucks ;)</p>

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<p>^agreed totallay</p>

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<p>Pratt, Duke.</p>

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<p>I’d say Carnegie Mellon or Upenn. The Tepper School of Business at CMU seems to be one of the fastest rising business programs in the country. Their engineering program is great also and the School of Computer Science is elite.</p>

<p>Upenn has arguably the best business school in the country. Also CAL and engineering seem like really solid programs.</p>

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<p>USNWR 2008 Undergrad Business Programs:

  1. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 4.9
  2. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (Sloan) 4.7
  3. University of California–Berkeley (Haas) * 4.5
  4. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor * 4.5
  5. New York University (Stern) 4.3
  6. U. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) * 4.3
  7. Carnegie Mellon University ¶ 4.2
  8. University of Texas–Austin (McCombs) * 4.2
  9. Univ. of Southern California (Marshall) 4.1
  10. University of Virginia (McIntire) * 4.1
  11. Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley) * 4.0
  12. Cornell University (NY) 3.9
  13. Emory University (Goizueta) (GA) 3.9
  14. Ohio State University–Columbus (Fisher) * 3.9
  15. U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign * 3.9
  16. Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison * 3.9
  17. Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) 3.9
  18. Pennsylvania State U.–University Park (Smeal) * 3.8
  19. Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson) * 3.8
  20. University of Notre Dame (IN) 3.8
  21. Georgetown University (McDonough) (DC) 3.7
  22. Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN)* 3.7
  23. University of Arizona (Eller) * 3.7
  24. Univ. of Maryland–College Park (Smith) * 3.7
  25. Arizona State University (Carey) * 3.6
  26. University of Washington * 3.6 </p>

<p>USNWR 2008 Top Undergrad Engineering Programs:

  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 4.9
  2. Stanford University (CA) 4.7
  3. University of California–Berkeley * 4.7
  4. California Institute of Technology 4.6
  5. Georgia Institute of Technology * 4.5
  6. U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign * 4.5
  7. Cornell University (NY) 4.4
  8. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor * 4.4
  9. Carnegie Mellon University ¶ 4.2
  10. Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)* 4.2
  11. University of Texas–Austin * 4.2
  12. Princeton University (NJ) 4.1
  13. Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison * 4.0
  14. Johns Hopkins University (MD) 3.9
  15. Northwestern University (IL) 3.9
  16. Virginia Tech * 3.9
  17. Pennsylvania State U.–University Park * 3.8
  18. Rice University (TX) 3.8
  19. Texas A&M Univ.–College Station * 3.8
  20. Columbia University (NY) 3.7 </p>

<p>UC Berkeley, U Penn, Michigan, UT-Austin, Carnegie Mellon, USC, UIUC, UW-Madison, Purdue are some good options.</p>

<p>Keep in mind, it might be pretty difficult to major in engineering and minor in business at some of these schools…At Cal, you could maybe minor in Econ, but you can’t be simultaneously enrolled in Cal’s Haas School of Business and College of Engineering.</p>

<p>If I were you, I might focus on a BS in Engineering and then pursue an MBA later.</p>

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<p>^ You CAN double major in business in engineering, but it’s next to impossible. I think like 2 people have done it in the history of the school.</p>

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<p>Believe it hasnt been mentioned; RPI in NY, its getting to be quite good at engineering etc.</p>