<p>It is a fact that a university is the synergistic sum total of its many colleges, programs, and departments. The options for high-caliber electives, and cross-disciplinary forays is why I’d choose the school that is clearly academically superior overall: Cornell. If the OP would like to look at his situation from your narrower perspective, he of course may. As I stated in my first post, the University of Virginia is a very good school, and it has the top ranked undergrad business program. The fact that Cornell is in the top 10 in that specialization, would just lead some people to a conclusion quite different from yours.</p>