Tulane vs Berkeley vs Michigan

fallenchemist
Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:01:00 +0000

These are all great schools, of course. Berkeley and Michigan are going to be more known world-wide and nationally if for no other reason than they are large state schools with reputations for academic excellence. Tulane is also known as an excellent school, but just won’t be known to as wide an audience as the other two. Will this make it harder to get internships or a job? Not at all. There are plenty of companies that come to Tulane, more all the time. That combined with your own initiatives should lead to various opportunities.

I saw on the Michigan thread where you asked this that the person was dismissive of Tulane. That is just ignorant, quite frankly. Tulane has extremely strong programs in a number of areas, especially (but not limited to) finance, entrepreneurship, energy trading, and portfolio analysis. Also you should factor in the size of the schools and the way they are structured. For example, at Tulane if you want to double major it is very easy. You don’t have to worry about being accepted to a separate school, like you do at Michigan with Ross.

It would be wrong to tell you that Michigan (and I assume Cal) don’t have great programs that attract a lot of employers. Their sheer size helps with that of course, but also their quality. Tulane has the quality as well, and with various exciting programs like the Energy Trading Competition, the M&A conference, the Burkenroad Reports and more, it has a ton of upward momentum. If you feel like you like the overall atmosphere at Tulane better, you should strongly consider it. If you do well in school and interview decently, you can be as successful coming out of Tulane as these other schools.