UCLA Bizecon vs. USC Marshall

moss
Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:03:36 +0000

If you want some real advice, avoid accounting all together unless you absolutely have no creativity. The pay is good but the work gets old fast. You’ll be stuck in the weeds and never get to see the forest (how business actually gets done). Honestly, if I were you and picked USC, I’d probably go for some heavy entrepreneurship/feasibility analysis/new ventures combined with some light accounting and finance and a little heavy on marketing if I had to do it all over.

You may have a hard time finding a job at the Big 4 (at both schools) unless you are stellar since you are an international student. Most mid-tier firms won’t sponsor international candidates.

You’ll enter UCLA as Pre-Biz/Econ, so you still have an extra hurdle to go through to actually get into Biz/Econ, otherwise you’ll default into just Econ if you don’t make the right grades in the weeder classes at UCLA. Your opportunities grow more limited since you’ll be competing against the more rigorous Biz/Econ students for the same jobs. Think of it as being an Econ student at USC and fighting for the same jobs as Marshall students. Don’t bank on it.

Let me know if you want to know anything else. I was admitted to both programs and chose USC.