<p>USC (marshall) vs. BC (carroll) vs. U of Michigan (ross) vs. NYU (stern) </p>
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<p>I am trying to decide between University Of Michigan-Ross School of Business, New York University-Stern School of Business, University of Southern California-Marshall School of Business, and Boston College-Carroll School of Management. I am accepted into all of these undergraduate business programs. For a specific major, I am undecided. I am from outside of Los angeles, so USC is the convenient choice for the high school transition, but lacks the undergrad b-school prestige of the other 3 schools, although it is more prestigious as an entire university. The cost is not an issue because it is about the same at every school. Please give me help on where to choose, taking into account business school opportunities, quality of life, recruitment, grad school admissions, etc. AS well as overall university experience.</p>
<p>My son was in a similar predicament last year. He had a similar group of choices. He chose Stern because of the curriculum, global brand, study abroad program, living in NYC, and most importantly the opportunity to intern in Wall St. / NYC during school. </p>
<p>The US News and Business week rankings are a very small piece of the pie. Financial Times and the Shanghai rankings give you a better idea of how some of these programs are seen in the globalized world. </p>
<p>Each of the schools that accepted you will be a great potential environment to grow. A more important question is whether you will be able to access the available resources within the business field that you want. Stern has tremendous resources and a better global brand than your other 3 choices. My ranking would be Stern > Ross > BC > USC. However, if you want to stay in California, and plan to live there for the rest of your life USC might be an excellent choice. (Your loss would be not to see the world).</p>
<p>Thank you for your incite and personal experience with Stern. I do plan on spending a good amount of my life in So cal. But I understand that It may never be so convenient to move away as it is for college, and the experience seems invaluable. I may try to utilize USC’s so cal networking dominance via grad school after attending somewhere like NYU BC or Umich. Any more advice?</p>
<p>In terms of prestige/job recruiting Ross and Stern are the best. They have great recruiting and are highly regarded by Wall Street employers. Ross and Stern are definitely top 5 in terms of recruiting right behind Harvard and Wharton (Penn). They are both in that type of category. You can’t go wrong with either. </p>
<p>Carroll and Marshall are both really great school for business, don’t get me wrong. Carroll does get some good recruiting and has a name on Wall Street, it’s a top-10 business school. Marshall is good in terms of academics, but hasn’t quite broken through on Wall Street. It’s not that you can’t get a big time job, but you’re won’t have as great a head start because the recruiting won’t be as good. But as you said it’s closest to you, so it really would not be a bad choice. </p>
<p>If you really don’t care about being close to home, go with Ross or Stern and if you want to do finance, Stern is #2 in the country.</p>