Washington U Olin School vs. Cornell AEM?

vbball90
Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:23:30 +0000

Sorry if I had any misinformation before. I don’t go to Cornell and didn’t intend to put down the school. I simply think that there is a difference in going to an undergrad business school, and doing an undergrad business program within another division (college of agriculture and life sciences).

St Louis is a fine city for recruiting. I’d say it’s better than Ithaca (not necessarily better than Cornell, and I never purported to say it was, but there can’t be an argument that Ithaca > St Louis for employment prospects). Cornell is a huge draw for recruiters, but Ithaca as a city would not be. St Louis has 8 Fortune 500 companies headquartered there, the 6th most in the country. There are also tons of other businesses with significant operations there. Companies headquarterd in STL: [Category:Companies based in St. Louis, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Companies_based_in_St._Louis,_Missouri)

This is taken from the business school’s website: http://www.olin.wustl.edu/docs/WCC/EmploymentBSBA.pdf
It shows that 34% of undergrads got careers in Investment Banking last year, and 51% of undergrads got a job somewhere in Finance.