<p>Many young christian men I know (including me), have expressed interest in Ibanking/Consulting/or working for a Big 4. All of us would like to attend a Christian college that is at least somewhat conservative. However, it seems that are few, if none at all of Christian colleges that are considered “targets”. Should an ambitous Christian Student go to a Christian College if he wants to go to Wall Street or Banks?</p>
<p>Check with Christian colleges you are interested in to see where their (recent) graduates have gone. If they have any who have done what you want to do, there’d be no reason not to assume you could do the same if you handle the academic and EC part.</p>
<p>Calvin College has a great business program! There are 5 concentrations: Finance, Human resources, Marketing, Operations, Small business. Also, In a survey of 2009 graduates, 98% of business and accounting graduates were employed or attending graduate school one year after graduation.</p>
<p>Below are a few examples of where business students have found jobs:
Amazon
Amway
Deloitte Touche
Ernst & Young
Fifth Third Bancorp
Goldman Sachs
Google
Gordon Food Service
InvescoA group of 2009 graduates
Kellogg Company
Partners Worldwide
Soundtech, Inc.
Travelers Insurance
United Way
Wolverine
World Wide
Zondervan
and many more!
Check out the website for more information! [Calvin</a> College - Business](<a href=“http://www.calvin.edu/academic/business/]Calvin”>The School Of Business - Academics | Calvin University)</p>
<p>“Business for the Glory of God” by Wayne Grudem</p>
<p>Check out the Trust and Wealth management major at Campbell University.</p>
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<p>No. The opportunity structure of ibanking is such that you will probably not even be able to apply if you’re not at a target/semi-target school.</p>
<p>Where you choose to attend for undergrad doesn’t matter as much as where you attend for graduate school.</p>
<p>The major Wall Street banks recruit at only selective schools. Harvard, Yale, etc. some well known state schools due to their strengths also. If you want to go into banking, a good business program will work. If you want to work on Wall Street you need to go to where they recruit. Look at the recruits that come to these schools, and then you will see the opportunity gap. And as the above post states, it is very important for grad school.</p>
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<p>Personally I would advise my child to look outside of Christian colleges. We are very strong in our faith and active in our church. I think that when you are looking at working in the world with a variety of people it is good to start with high school and college. Sometimes a Christian college is very limiting. </p>
My son will be majoring in Finance and is not necessarily interested in working on Wall Street, but he would like to become an analyst and probably get his CFA. He, too, is trying to decide where to go. He has applied to 2 Christian schools and 5 secular.
BYU is one of the few strictly religious schools that also is a target for some Ibanks.
Honestly people in business are uncomfortable with religion. It is limiting, and outside the US and in the Northeast it is often regarded as bizarre. Your religion is your private business. Practice your faith as you see fit and go to a secular college. (BTW I am a church going Christian, so not at all against religion)
You might look into the 5-year BS/MBA program at Pepperdine.
Some of the top business schools are at Christian universities. ND and BC are often ranked in the top 5 of undergraduate business schools. Georgetown is also an excellent university. Being business-minded and Christian are not mutually exclusive.
LOL. I’m glad your proud of your alma matter, but there’s nobody serious who thinks BC is in the top 5 of undergrad business. U.S. News Ranks it #22 this year so it’s a mid tier business school at best. ND sometimes ranks high on the Bloomberg Rankings but nobody in the business world really looks at that (Villanova over Wharton Business School?). No wonder Bloomberg is phasing out those wacky rankings starting next year.
Notre Dame, Boston College and Georgetown are Catholic colleges. I don’t believe Pepperdine is a Christian college in the tradition of Biola, Bob Jones Univ., etc. BYU is a Mormon faith college.
Anyway, if you decide on secular schools, especially the high profile colleges, like UCLA, UC Berkeley, USC, or any UC’s, Univ. of Michigan, Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, Virginia, etc., to increase the chances of accomplishing your goals to get into banking/consulting/business/Big 4, you can always get involved in Christian organizations such as Inter-Varsity, AACF, CRU, etc., or the local Christian churches near the campus. Other large college campuses offer the same.
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In the real world, you will not be surrounded by people who think the same way as you. Going to a larger public university will challenge your faith but also give you more of a real-world experience of your future vocation. There are many Christian student organizations on campuses that you would be able to join and most larger universities have many different churches in the nearby.