<p>Does San Jose State University have a good business program?
I am now thinking about which program is better for me</p>
<p>San Jose state university (Business major)
UC Davis (Managerial Economic)</p>
<p>Which one is better?</p>
<p>I want to get a job either from ibank or Big 4</p>
<p>p.s I am an international student. which school can provide me better chance to get a better job?</p>
<p>you have a very slim chance if any to get into ibanking. both ucd and sjsu is not a target school.</p>
<p>i am not sure how good ucd undergrad program is but sjsu gets you very good job placement in their region (silicon valley). i know the big 4 recruits from sjsu but not sure about ucd.</p>
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<p>-If you want to go Big 4, go to SJSU</p>
<p>-If you want to get into ibanking, neither of these schools will give you a good chance.</p>
<p>I was a SJSU Busines major.</p>
<p>Honestly, aim higher than this place. I do not believe the school will prepare students for the business field, undergraduates at least. The only business class I have taken is financial accounting. The class was easy beyond comprehension and did not even cover debits/credits. iBanking will most likely want applicants with a strong background in mathematics. The math requirement for SJSU business is Math 70; a cop out which is not even on the level of calculus.</p>
<p>SJSU is what you can make of it. Classes are taught by professors who are approachable. The Business Honors program is open to students with a GPA over 3.25 (indicitave of an academically poor student body).</p>
<p>In the end, this place was simply not for me, and should not be the school for any academic mind. Transfer out if you can. That is what I did.</p>
<p>He has little chance to get into i-banking from SJSU or UCD, which are the schools he is asking about. </p>
<p>Also, the OP was inquiring about an accounting degree so I don’t think the the fact that your intro to accounting class, which is required of all business majors, was easy is relevant here. The actual core upper division accounting classes is what is the true test and indicator of how difficult the curriculum is.</p>
<p>3.25 is not necessarily indicative of a poor academic student body. The average for the entire school, well actually nearly every department is within the same range of the mid 2.XX.</p>
<p>There is now way you take financial accounting and did not cover debit/credits.</p>
<p>Math credit being a cop out…no, it is just a requirement that is the MINIMUM required for the rest of the major courses. One can easily go beyond that requirement.</p>
<p>Either way ibanking is unlikely.</p>
<p>Of the people who have graduated in the last 4 years from UC Davis, only 1 has made it into an investment bank (as in the IB dept). Also, all of the Big 4 accounting hire at UC Davis. If you do accounting at UCD, you will need to take classes online or take classes at Sac State since Davis does not offer the courses to sit for CPA.</p>
<p>Is there any different between a student who graduate from UCD or SJSU?</p>
<p>Does it mean that if i am not graduate from target school, ibank will be a dream?</p>
<p>What’s with these questions? You have all the answers written in fine print above, come on.</p>
<p>Some schools that aren’t targets have an easier time of breaking in to investment banking. If you graduate from one of those two schools, you will have close to no chance of getting a job in investment banking. I don’t know how to put it more bluntly.</p>
<p>If you do not plan on transfering, you chances a slim. So if you truly want this now, then do well and transfer. Or possibly do well, get a good job and plan for post MBA.</p>
<p>Given the SJSU grading scale, a 3.25 is indicative of poor performance. SJSU does not have a standard curve, such as 10% A, 20% B, 50% C, 20% <C. Students do not compete against each other, but are rather measured on an absolute scale (get a 90% in a class, that is an A-). </p>
<p>The classes are not hard at all. And yes, for my manigerial accounting, we did not cover credits/debits. On any given test a 88/100 was considered an A, and the test average would always be in the mid 60s. Draw whatever conclusion you would like.</p>
<p>Math 70 is a cop out and a disfavor to SJSU students. The course covers compound interest and matrices. SJSU should at least have its business students take calculus classes. How can a SJSU business student be competitive without calculus? And students having the initiative to go beyond Math 70? I think most had enough trouble in Math 70, a class which should qualify as precalculus.</p>
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<p>Yes, if you do not go to a target business school, or at the very least “semi-target,” like UCLA forget about IBanking, unless you have extreme networking skills and connections.</p>
<p>If you really want to do ibanking, you should do really well at UCD for the first year or 2 (keep close to 4.0 gpa) and then try to transfer to a target or semi-target.</p>