My son is a Sophomore In high school and is starting to look at colleges. He’d love to go to college in a larger city and may be interested in playing basketball but it would have to be at a smaller school such as a Division III. He’s also interested in business either marketing, finance, or sports management. We live in Michigan and would prefer an in-state school but open to other smaller schools across the country. Any recommendations?
NYU, Emory, Wash U,
In NYC, NYU/Stern, the CCNY schools, and Stevens just across the river https://www.stevens.edu/school-business/undergraduate-programs
CMU/Tepper in Pittsburgh
Emory/Goizueta in Atlanta
In the Boston area, MIT/Sloan if your son is a super-amazing student!..Tufts (has econ with finance minor, not a formal undergrad business degree), Babson https://stuart.iit.edu/programs/undergraduate-programs , and Brandeis http://www.brandeis.edu/business/index.html
and WPI in Worcester https://www.wpi.edu/academics/business/undergraduate
In Rochester, UofR https://www.rochester.edu/college/bsb/undergraduate/bs-degree.html
and RIT https://saunders.rit.edu/undergraduate/undergraduate-degrees-demand-careers#
Case Western Reserve in Cleveland https://weatherhead.case.edu/degrees/undergraduate/academics/
Catholic U in DC https://business.catholic.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs/index.html
Trinity in San Antonio https://new.trinity.edu/academics/departments/school-business
Rhodes in Memphis https://www.rhodes.edu/business
KZoo https://reason.kzoo.edu/econ/major/
In Chicago, UIC http://business.uic.edu/undergraduate-programs
and IIT https://stuart.iit.edu/programs/undergraduate-programs
In the Seattle/Tacoma area, U of Puget Sound https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/undergraduate/school-of-business-leadership/ and Pacific Lutheran https://www.plu.edu/busa/bachelor-of-business/
In suburban LA (maybe not urban enough) Chapman and Claremont McKenna (the latter a top econ school but more econ/management than business/finance)
For financial safeties, look to the U of Wisconsin campuses that offer discounted tuition through the MHEP program. Milwaukee would be the most urban of these I think, and it has a good-sized business school, but they’re all (except for Madison) D3 and they have business programs of varying size and scope.
http://uwm.edu/business/academics/undergrad/
https://msep.mhec.org/institution/university-wisconsin-milwaukee
The problem with wanting a sports management program and wanting to play is that these programs are most often at D1 schools. Syracuse is a great place for this… and Drexel is a “major city” school with a terrific co-op program in this field http://drexel.edu/sportmanagement/academics/BS-in-Sport-Management/ and great co-op business programs too https://www.lebow.drexel.edu/academics/undergraduate/areas-of-study , but again a D1 school. A lot of the D1 schools do have club teams, so that’s another way to be on a team without having to confine the search to D3 schools.
Hope that helps!
He should definitely look at Fordham. Excellent internship opportunities. MetroNorth is only a 20 minute ride to Grand Central. Many students intern every semester, especially in junior and senior year. Basketball team had a losing season last year, but there’s plenty of school spirit for the various sports. School is expensive, but there’s merit $$$ there. What are your financial constraints? School is Jesuit but plenty of non-Catholics attend and don’t feel out-of-place.
University of Richmond in Virginia
Richmond is a great school with a great business school. However, in basketball it is D1 and plays in the very competitive Atlantic -10 conference. Their players will all be recruited athletes (perhaps one very talented walk on).
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What are his academic stats so far
Would he be a recruited athlete
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Babson.
You have to do it backward and find the basketball team first and then pick the school that has the best business school. No way to pick the business school first and then the basketball team or you’ll be looking at great business schools like those recommended above (Fordham, Syracuse, Richmond) which are all D1 with big basketball.
Look at the smaller and private schools in your area. We have no way of knowing where he’d fit in for basketball.
Many good ideas above. Another suggestion is Muhlenberg College which is a LAC with a business program and is D III. Also, Bentley is D II and may be worth a look if that is a suitable level of play for him (I don’t know the difference between D III and D II ).
It might be a good exercise to go through this list and see what schools seen appealing and research those further. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_III_institutions
@4Gulls I love Fordham (my S went to Gabelli and had a fantastic expereince) but the OP is looking for D III schools and Fordham basketball is D1 and is part of the very competitive Atlantic 10 league (not the Patriot League as it is for many other sports).
In State DIII options:
Adrian
Albion
Alma
Calvin (maybe NAIA)
Hillsdale (maybe NAIA)
I think M. Tech and Northern Michigan are D2
Finlandia
Hope
Olivet
Of course these are all private schools and since there are no athletic scholarships in DIII, these will be full pay.
Bucknell University in Pennsylvania should be considered. Lehigh University also.
But, because you live in Michigan, and because the University of Michigan Ross School of Business is among the best in the nation, and because Ross has a separate building & now permits freshmen to be directly admitted to the Ross School of Business, you should consider applying, possibly EA (early action), to the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
With respect to his basketball aspirations, there are probably several clubs & intra school leagues at Univ. of Michigan for which he can participate.
You can make a big school small, but you cannot make a small school big. Attending the Ross School of Business at Michigan easily enables one to enjoy the best of both worlds.
Thanks for clarifying @happy1 !
Bucknell and Lehigh are both DI.
Susquehanna University is D3 and has an AACSB accredited business school. It is located in central PA not far from Bucknell.
I agree with @Publisher that it is a good idea to put the academics first. You live in a state with one of the best business school programs in the country, it would be a shame to miss it. Club and intramural sports are good options and a good way to still have that experience without the demands of a competitive sports schedule during the school year. Plus a DIII school isn’t going to be able to draw out those big crowds you would find at D! schools anyway
^ True - and Michigan State isn’t bad for business either, and the b-school has a sports management minor, on a campus with a great sports culture. And their club bball has even gotten some press: http://wkar.org/post/msu-club-basketball-team-aiming-higher#stream/0
(FWIW, UMich has a sports management major, but it’s not in Ross; it’s in the School of Kinesiology. There is a dual degree, though: https://www2.bus.umich.edu/MyiMpact/academics/bba-dual/sport-mgmt )
OP is interested in marketing, finance or sports management. Is it possible to double major at MSU even if the programs are in different schools ?
@Publisher , it looks like it’s all together in the b-school at MSU; sports management is a minor within the Management department, and there are also departments of Finance and Marketing. How one goes about blending majors/minors within the b-school departments isn’t immediately clear from the website, but at least it’s all the the business school… whereas at UMich you have to get into Ross and then do a double-degree to get both the b-school stuff and the sports management stuff.
@aquapt: Thank you !
If I recall correctly, MSU law school publishes a Sports Management/Sports Law law review.
So OP does not need to leave Michigan to get everything he desires.