Notre Dame (Mendoza) vs Indiana (Kelley) vs U of S Carolina (Moore)

If you want accounting and Big 4, cheapest. They don’t care where you go to school.

If you want IB, Notre Dame. Not a historical feeder, but is now. Our lead book runner for our last 5 public deals, a firm with notoriously finicky hiring practices, has a notable number of ND grads on their roster, and the person who led the marketing calls was one of them.

I know Indiana has a strong program and gets kids to Wall Street, but my impression is that the ND name is more powerful. I could be wrong, but I think that’s generally true. If your kid winds up doing something else altogether, ND is a bigger name than Indiana generally, of course, and certainly relative to South Carolina…

Again, accounting, go with what works best financially and otherwise. You can get to a Big 4 from almost anywhere. Wall Street IB, I’d choose ND not knowing anything else about your situation.

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