<p>How good is UCI’s business school? How’s its reputation?</p>
<p>I am admitted to business admin major this year as a transfer, but did not find very good ranking statistics about its biz sch.</p>
<p>plus, is it possible for me to double major in computer sciences after I enroll in?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>The program is fairly new, that said given it’s age it’s surprisingly well ranked and it’s climbing the ladder as well.</p>
<p>double majoring might be possible, but you’d have to structure your curriculum well and you might need to spend 3 years depending upon your circumstances</p>
<p>U.S. News & World Report
2010: Full-time MBA program ranked #36 nationally
2010: Fully Employed MBA Program ranked #24 nationally (#4 part-time MBA program in California)
2008: Full-time MBA program ranked #44 nationally
Financial Times
2011: Full-time MBA Program ranked #27 in U.S. and #53 internationally[2]
2006: Full-time MBA Program ranked #53 in U.S.; Faculty Research ranked #22 internationally
2005: EMBA Program ranked #29 internationally (Top 13 U.S.); Faculty Research ranked #15 internationally
Forbes Magazine
2005: Ranked #38 on the U.S. Top 50 Forbes list of Business Schools with the Best Return on Investment
Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive
2005: Ranked #39 regionally and #4 nationally for Information Technology
BusinessWeek
2009: Fully Employed MBA Program ranked #31 nationally, #9 in the Western Region
2004: Full-time MBA Program ranked among the Top 50 nationallyter’s program as well</p>
<p>^ Those stats are all for its Grad. program. We really have no idea how it is doing for undergrad because, as it’s so new, the first class has not graduated yet.</p>
<p>Something important to note about business schools is its proximity and relations to businesses nearby. Although you won’t be able to tap into the true strength of the business school (which is named after the creator of the Hot Pocket) as an undergrad, you may be able to utilize some of its resources. If you’re looking to do business in southern California, particularly Orange County, then UCI is the place to be.</p>
<p>He asked for information on the business school which I provided. Merage is competitive to get into at both the undergraduate and the graduate. The program is generally solid and the professors are competent. At this undergraduate level, the only thing it lacks is a finance specialization, but even that is being worked on. In the mean time, if your interest is in finance, specialize in accounting, pick up a minor in economics and take some finance related classes from the economics department and if you’re truly crazy, go for the statisics minor(or mathematics minor with the classes selected being those pertaining to finance)</p>
<p>thx a lottttt for the posts above</p>
<p>i am not targeting at the nearby business but nationally
so just a bit worried about uci’s business program being too new to be established as UCSD/UCLA’s business programs
(but it should be at least better than my current sch → drexel ?? what do u think?)</p>
<p>also my friend in UCLA told me UCI was like a community college, i don’t quite get his idea
does UCI offer biz classes that are too big for professors to care about their students?</p>
<p>thx XD</p>
<p>UCSD/UCLA don’t have undergraduate business programs, so I’m not quite sure what you mean. In terms of MBA programs or other grad programs, then their school is certainly more established, but I don’t think that has extensive bearing on their undergrad programs. Also, at UCSD I’m pretty sure they have econ and not business.</p>
<p>UCI certainly isn’t like a community college. Their classes are not “too big” for their professors to care about their students. In fact, with the amount of students in the program, I would say that their class sizes are going to be smaller than that of other schools, like Haas. </p>
<p>Not sure about Drexel’s business program. Overall, I think UCI is ranked above Drexel.</p>
<p>Something you have to realize about business programs is the rankings are entirely subjective. Accounting classes at UCI aren’t terribly different from accounting at UCLA or any calstate, for example. It’s even worse at the undergraduate level when students don’t have experience to draw upon. </p>
<p>Heck, you can find plenty of books that profess to teach you all the tricks and skills of an MBA curriculum [url=<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=MBA&x=0&y=0]here[/url”>http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=MBA&x=0&y=0]here[/url</a>]. </p>
<p>That being said, theres a lot of be made from things like connections and networking and what not. Personally, I think cal state Fullerton’s business program is better than UCIs.</p>
<p>Quite honestly the strength of the undergrad programs of each business school isn’t too important, what matters is how you do relative to your peers.</p>
<p>UCSD and UCLA don’t even have business undergrad programs, unless you count business economics for LA and management science for SD.</p>
<p>It seems to me like you are misinformed and misguided.
In terms of MBA, yes Marshall(USC) and Anderson (UCLA) are very highly ranked, but UCI is not too far off the horizon either.</p>
<p>The business classes at UCI are not as big as the other lectures (econ, bio, chem etc.). The biggest business class size you’ll get is 200 max, and thats at the lower division level.</p>
<p>I’m in two management classes right now. Both have around 60 people in them. That is to say, only around 80% of the seats in the room are filled.</p>