<p>to answer OP’s question, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business is one of the best (not sure if it’s still in top 3, but it was a year or a few ago).
it’s great that people wonder the value of the school’s name when it comes to job opportunities. if you go to higher-ranked school (like UC Berkeley), you’ll be competing with the best of the best and enjoy the company of self-motivated, ambitious, highly responsible fellow students, and by being in such a positive atmosphere, i’m sure some of the great work ethic and drive for learning can trickle down to you as well. you won’t know your true potential until you’ve put your brains to the test by competing with the world’s best and brightest students. your chances of finding out your true potential is much, much more probable to happen at UC Berkeley than at UCI or UCSD and the like.
here’s an example from big fish in small pond:
he thinks he’s smart because he topped the charts in a class full of slackers who fail and he happens to get a D, which is better than failing with an F of course. so the teacher curves the class and he gets an A in Algebra, yay! but hold on - he takes the national standardized test and fails miserably because compared nationally, he does not understand Algebra. sure, he understands Algebra way more than his local classroom of slackers. but he doesn’t truly understand Algebra when compared to a greater sample of the population. the same principle transfers over to universities. performance is always relative. so your bet is to go where you can find room for improvement in your studies and can grow and learn. otherwise, if you like being big fish in small pond, you’ll just be complacent with where you are since you’re not challenged enough and can even be deceived in your own little bubble</p>