Right now I’m looking for a good business school on the east coast as far south as Virginia and as far north as Maine. I’m looking for a very good business school with a good ROI as a finance major or possibly a school with quantitative finance. Any suggestions?
Stats? Price Restrictions?
I recommend Wharton.
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The top programs on the east coast are Boston College, Northeastern, Babson, Cornell, NYU, Wharton, Carnegie Mellon , Villanova, Lehigh, Bucknell, Georgetown, Wake Forest and Richmond.
Accounting is a better field of study at the undergraduate level than finance. If you plan on an MBA then major in something other than business.
Without knowing any pertinent details such as your GPA, standardized tests, financial restrictions etc. I would say to look through this list and start researching ones that seem like matches. I’m not big on rankings but it is a good list of undergraduate b-schools.
http://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/2014/07/01/2014-pq-ranking-of-the-best-undergraduate-business-programs/2/
Are you talking grad or undergrad?
Based on ROI as determined by salary after graduation, then Babson.
Also, list of top quantitative finance programs (masters):
Re Post #8. I get a kick out of the idea of a “Financial Engineer”. They should probably require professional certification (like Civil Engineers) to reduce the risk of them building public structures that collapse. 
Babson offers a business degree with a concentration in Finance and a concentration in Quantitative Methods including a couple courses that invest real money
Tufts has a major in Quantitative Economics and a minor in Finance, a minor in Entrepreneurial Leadership and a top investing club that invests real money
Colgate has a major in Quantitative Economics.
Not as familiar with the details of BC’s program, but all of these programs place grads on Wall Street
Thanks for the responses: I am still very early in the college search (11th grade) but can probably get around a 2000 on SATs. What about the following schools: Stevens Insitute of Technology, St. John’s (safety), and Lafayette?
Would likely try to play a sport so if the schools a reach that can help me
Thank you. If these are tier 1a, what would you consider 1b?
- Try using the supermatch function on the left (under find a college)
- My D is at Lafayette – it is a great college but they do not have a business school. Lehigh would be better if you want business.
@ScaredNJDad1 what do you mean by majoring in something other than business for an MBA? Just curious because I decided to major in English just in case I wanted to go to medical school (a business major would not have allowed me to fufill the prerequisites). I also thought an english major would still leave the door to an MBA open, if I wanted to pursue that rather than med school
OP, what do you think are the prerequisites to get an MBA? I don’t know of any that require an UG in business.
@ZBlue17 That was my point. You don’t need to major in business undergrad to get an MBA. I would suggest that you take a few Math or Econ courses though.
Business is applied math, humanities and social sciences.
There is a school of thought that having a base in math//humanities/social sciences or a another applied discipline (such as engineering) is a better complement to an MBA than undergrad business.
The trick is to get enough applied education in the initial degree to get a reasonable job, which will also help build toward the MBA. That is where a liberal arts major/applied minor can help.
In some cases, an MBA can be viewed as somewhat redundant with an undergrad business degree.
First, apologies to the OP for going off topic…
@ScaredNJDad1 @ZBlue17 If a person plans to get a MBA it is fine to major in business or any other discipline as an undergraduate. Some MBA students work in business before going back to school and others work in unrelated fields (at Wharton MBA program we came across students who were accountants, people who worked on Wall Street as well as engineers,an opera singer, a fighter pilot, a book editor, and just about anything else you can imagine). Virtually everyone found success in the MBA program regardless of if they had a background in business or not.There are different paths to the same goal.
IMO the decision of what to major in as an undergraduate should be based on one’s personal interests and aptitudes. Keeping in mind that the top MBA programs generally require 2-5 years of meaningful, significant work experience each individual should think about where they want to work, what they might be good at etc. before deciding on a major.
Keep in mind that admission to the top MBA programs is hyper-competitive requiring excellent grades, top recommendations, great GMATs, and strong work experience to even have a chance of acceptance.