Tufts vs NYU

bluirinka
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:49:50 +0000

Just to clarify - were you accepted to NYU’s arts and sciences, or the Stern School of Business? If A&S, but you have an interest in business, you could try matriculating at NYU and transferring to Stern. Tufts doesn’t have a business program, for the record.

And also, as has been discussed to death on another thread recently, Tufts is not in Boston. If you are a fan of the “metropolitan ambience,” you won’t find it on the Tufts campus, it’s like a 20-minute trip away.

As far as grad school statistics, I could be wrong about this, but it’s possible that since NYU is so much bigger than Tufts and attracts different kinds of students, not all of them even want to go to grad school. I would think that an NYU student that has demonstrated good academics and an interest in graduate school should have no problem getting into a graduate program. But I don’t know which one is “better” for MBAs - I know that lots of Tufts students go on to receive MBAs, and as I said, we don’t have a business program.

I don’t know about NYU’s Econ department, but Tufts has a decent Econ program. I’m and Econ major and there are lots of things I like about it and a few I don’t like.

I hope this has helped a little, and that others can maybe weigh in too.