Dartmouth or Notre Dame

slipper1234
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:44:18 +0000

Undergrad business schools after Wharton, Stern, Haas, and Ross essentially are far less useful than econ degrees from Ivies. There is NO comparison. Dartmouth recruiting is among the top 5 in the nation. My firm is actively hiring and not to be elitist but we only hire from the Ivies and a few other schools. At the top MBA programs (Wharton, Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg, Tuck, Sloan, etc) dartmouth is easily one of the top 7 most represented schools, why? Because Dartmouth students also obtain top jobs after graduation. I attended a top 5 MBA program, ND honestly wasn’t on the map quite frankly.

Finally, Tuck just opened up classes to undergraduates and Tuck is one of the top b-schools in the country. I have worked in business for some time and now countless people who are very young leading major companies or doing exceptionally well at top firms like McKinsey and BCG. Going to an Ivy gets you FAR ahead in business, the work you have access to is usually far more strategic with major implications as opposed to more “operational” roles that graduates of the BBA programs outside the top 5 tend to get.