Looking for good undergraduate business schools with a D3 football program

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I am currently a junior in high school with above average grades and decent SAT scores and I am looking to play Division 3 football in college but also attend a top 20 undergraduate business program. What are some schools that fit this criteria? Thank you.

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I was thinking MIT or CMU, but here is an older thread that covers this topic:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1521359-looking-for-good-schools-with-business-programs-and-d3-athletics.html

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I’d google the list of D III football teams and see if any have a top 20 b-school.

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Babson.

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There is not a lot of overlap between the categories of “top undergraduate business schools” and “D3 football”.

D3 football programs are most commonly found at smaller schools, especially liberal arts colleges (LACs). However, LACs don’t usually have a separate business school. In fact, LACs don’t usually offer degrees in “business” at all, although they typically do offer degrees in “economics”. Economics is a traditional liberal arts discipline, while “business” is not.

Undergraduate business schools are commonly found at larger universities. But larger universities typically play D1 football. Only the nerdier universities play D3 football.

There are hundreds of D3 football schools, so it’s much faster to do this in reverse – start with the USN&WR ranking of Top 20 undergraduate B-schools, and see if any of them play D3 football. Here are the D3 schools on the USN&WR list:

  1. MIT
  2. New York University (D3, but no football team)
  3. Carnegie Mellon
  4. Washington University in St. Louis
  5. Emory University

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-overall?_mode=table

So there are only four D3 football schools on the USN&WR list of Top 20 undergraduate B-schools. These four schools can be reasonably regarded as “nerdier universities” (as per above). You will need very high grades and test scores to be a competitive candidate at any of them.

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Babson has a very strong undergraduate business program, and D3 athletics – but not football.

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Not a top-20 undergrad B-school, but Rensselaer has a good B-school (very tech/entrepreneur oriented, since it’s an engineering-focused school) and D3 football (incidentally one of their former students/players is now the Patriots defensive coordinator).

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Regarding the suggestions of MIT/CM/Wash U/Emory as D3 schools with strong B programs – another layer to consider is that all of those schools other than MIT are in the UAA athletic conference. The UAA is a conference where coach support may for a recruit may not have much impact on the admissions decision, depending on the school or the sport.

Ways to expand the search might be to include schools with “pseudo” business majors, such as Dickinson and Denison which both have a major in international or global commerce. Or schools with strong ties to the financial district, if that is a priority, such as Trinity College, Hartford.

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There are some pretty good schools on this list – find out which ones are D3 in football and maybe go from there.

http://www.online-accounting-degrees.net/best/small-college-business-degree-programs/

Or broaden your search to include Economics, and nearly every D3 football school will offer that.

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Well, what are they?? schools like MIT and WashU still expect their Div3 athletes to have strong stats.

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Think about studying economics rather than undergraduate business. For purposes of finding jobs and getting into MBA schools, an undergraduate economic degree from a good LAC is equivalent or better than an undergraduate business degree. However, the academic work is likely to be more difficult than the typical undergraduate business program.

Look at the NESCAC schools and the UAA schools in particular. But be ready to work in the classroom as well as on the gridiron.