<p>I understand Wharton and Stern probably have the best undergrad business programs around. However, how hard are the workloads of these two schools. Students who have attended Wharton or Stern, how is the social life and stress level? Cuz seriously, I’ve worked my butt off in HS and want to have some fun in college. Still, I’m willing to trade in some hardwork for playtime. If a school has the philosophy of “work hard and play hard,” I’ll definitely embrace it, but I definitely don’t want to be spenting 80 % of my time at a college’s library. Anyway, I’ve b*tched enough. Obviously, I don’t wanna go to a party school or anything like that either. So anybody have any reccomendations for me for undergrad business programs? Including or excluding Wharton and/or Stern.</p>
<p>UMich has a great business program and is well known as a university that goes by the “work hard, play hard” motto. But as of right now, you can’t get guaranteed admission into the business school as a freshman.</p>
<p>If you want the prestige of a top 10 undergrad b-school with social opportunities so vast that it even hurts the school’s serious reputation sometimes, go to USC.</p>
<p>heres the full list of schools in USNEWS and world, feel free to agree or disagree:</p>
<ol>
<li>Univ. Pennsylvania</li>
<li>MIT (sloan)</li>
<li>Berkeley ( Haas) and Michigan</li>
<li>NYU (stern)</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon, UNC Chapel Hill (Keanan-Flagler) and Univ. Texas (Mccombs)</li>
<li>USC (marshall) and UVA (mcintire)</li>
<li>Indiana Univ. (kelley) and Univ. Illinois - Urbana Champaign and WUSTL (Olin)</li>
<li>Cornell University, Univ. Minnesota (carlson) and U. Wisc. Madison </li>
<li>Emory (goizueta), ohio state (Fisher) and Purdue (Krannert)</li>
<li>Mich. State (Broad), Penn State (Smeal), Arizona (elller), Univ. Maryland (smith) and Notre Dame</li>
<li>ASU (carey), Case Western (wheatherhead), Univ. flordia (warrington) and Univ. WA.</li>
<li>babson, georgetown, texas a&m (mays), Univ. Geogia (terry), Wake Forest (calloway)
34-47 (i dont think you really care after this, except maybe boston college none of the next schools are very good)</li>
</ol>
<p>wow that was a lot of typing</p>
<p>This seems like a pretty silly time to decide to stop working hard. You can work hard and play hard at any school with the possible exceptions of MIT and CIT. Go to the best school you can get into, Wharton if you can, get one of those fabulous jobs and play like crazy later.</p>
<p>No recruiter actually believes in those rankings: they all recruit at wharton,stern,slaon, and ross and the rest have a big gap.</p>
<p>quaker, i agree and disagree, i think that they do go to all those schools depending on the region the recruiter is in. but there is also the other (harvard, duke, yale, stanford, princeton, U. Chicago, dartmouth, northwestern) that are highly regarded no matter what degree is earned.</p>
<p>Whoa, northwestern. Um. no.</p>
<p>northwestern UM YES, it has a great program in economics and is very respected on both coasts, being in the upper midwest and chicago, which is the only school it competes with in the area. you cant deny it, being ranked inside the top 10 schools in the country, w/out ads like WUSTL</p>
<p>Since you are asking now, I assume you are a junior. This coming fall, you will be able to apply directly to the Michigan Business school (in the past, you could only apply to the Business school after your sophomore year at Michigan).</p>
<p>So, assuming you are a top student, here are the schools I would recommend you look into:</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
Emory University
Georgetown University
Indiana University-Bloomington (Kelley)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) *
New York University (Stern) *
University of California-Berkeley (Haas) *
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross) *
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Kenan Flagler)
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) *
University of Southern California (Marshall)
University of Texas-Austin (McComb)
University of Virginia (McIntire) *</p>
<ul>
<li>Denotes very strong Business program.</li>
</ul>
<p>What about Babson? I heared its a very strong business school as well.</p>
<p>Babson is decent…but it is not a top Business schools. It is a boutique Business program with a strong Entrepeneurship speciality. Any of the top 10 Business programs are significantly better overall.</p>
<p>I know six fellow Hongkongers who went to Northwestern are now doing well in business/finance field:</p>
<ol>
<li>now studying at Northwestern Kellogg; undergrad major=chemE; </li>
<li>now studying at Harvard B-school; undergrad major=Econ/comp sci </li>
<li>now studying at MIT B-school; undergrad major=industrial engg;</li>
<li>hedge fund analyst in nyc; undergrad major=industrial engg/comp sci;</li>
<li>venture capitalist for HSBC; undergrad major=econ/social policy;</li>
<li>Goldman Sachs; undergrad major=chemE</li>
</ol>
<p>Northwestern degrees are respected and many engineering alums have made the switch to finance/business field quite successfully.</p>
<p>Sam Lee, I can add another two from my high school (one Sri Lankan and one Sudanese) who went to Northwestern. Both majored in Electrical Engineering. One of them is currently working for BNP Paribas in Paris and the other just left a pretty large VC firm based in Chicago to start his own VC company.</p>
<p>Where is UCLA on these lists?</p>
<p>UCLA is a great school and it has a very respected MBA program…but it does not have an undergraduate Business program.</p>
<p>I know this post is a month old, but what do you guys think about McCombs? It has a stellar accounting department, and its marketing program isn’t too shaby (3rd according to USNEWS…w/e that means).</p>