<p>In Prestige, it can vary dramatically. Some people really like it, some never heard of it. Below all the schools you listed. Very few or none would go to Babson over Upenn. If you get into UPenn, don’t come to babson. I’ve known quite a few kids that got into NYU Stern but decided to come to Babson because they preferred campus, it’s very pretty. It has a campus and you get to know everyone, unlike NYU which is spread across Manhatten.</p>
<p>Dunkaroo- I go to Babson and admit the social life blows but will not tolerate inaccuracies regarding to job placement, especially since I studied accounting and finance. Last year, six kids went into JP Morgan’s Investment banking division, out of a total of around 100 to 125 or so. Not bad for a graduating class of around 400 each year. If you want to go into research department or trading you are out of luck, but quite a few kids go into corp finance side of investment banking due to heavy alumni support recently. Most of bulge brackets will give full time offers to 1 to 3 Babson Kids from IB division. I’m not talking about some stupid back office stuff either. Only major banks that don’t recruit here are CSFB, Morgan Stanley, Lazard, Greenhill. The other major players recruit here: JPM, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Bear Stearns, Rothschild, UBS, GS, BoA, as well as quite a few boutiques. Now if you want to work at top consulting firm, then you are screwed because emphasis of career development is on getting banking jobs lately. But you won’t have problems at all if you want to go into numbers industry: accounting or finance. All of the major accounting firms recruit heavily as well if that is your thing.</p>