<p>Hi! I have managed to come up with a list of things I want my business school /overall college to be, and even though I have a list on my own of about 12 schools, I’d like to hear some opinions.</p>
<p>What I want in a business school:
-Separate school for business majors (i.e. Wharton, Stern, etc)
-There are a substantial amount of students in the program (1,000+)
-Ample study abroad opportunities
-Good number of business clubs
-Honors program for business students
-Near/Next to an event-full city/town (i.e. Phili, NYC, etc.)
-Career services within the business school
-General alumni spirit in the college
-Great professors
-I want to dive into business classes freshmen year, and not take just liberal arts courses freshmen/sophomore year and then apply to the business school (i.e. Emory)
-Large amount of students OOS</p>
<p>I don’t know if this describes way too many schools or too few, but I’d like to find out what schools come to your mind that fit a majority of those characteristics… or even some of them. Thanks!</p>
<p>PS: Please give suggestions beyond the top 10 schools (i.e. Wharton, Stern)</p>
<p>I was thinking UT McCombs until you got to the large amount of OOS students part. Michigan, Georgetown and USC seem to meet most, if not all, of your criteria.</p>
<p>All three are on my list actually, but I’m unsure about UT and USC because they are far away. Besides the OOS part, is UT a good fit for all the other characteristics?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Edit: UT is great for business in general, right? Well, is it worth it to move all the way to Texas to go there? And, is it likely that I’ll end up working in that area?</p>
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<li><p>UT has a very solid, Top 10 undergrad business dept. </p></li>
<li><p>As to whether or not it is worth the move, I can’t give you a straight answer because I have a strong bias for UT. </p></li>
<li><p>I’d say that if you decided to go to UT, you’d more than likely end up working in Texas. As a business major, you’ll probably end up at one of Texas’ 4 major business areas, Houston, D/FW metroplex, San Antonio or Austin.</p></li>
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<p>The first 2 and second to last one conflict with eachother. Schools restrict pre-business classes and implement junior (or sophomore) admission standards exactly for criteria #1 and #2.
Do not expect to take any thing more than introductory economics and accounting before junior year.</p>
<p>=/ So what schools would let me ‘dive’ into business classes? Small schools? </p>
<p>I just know that I don’t want to take english/history/science consistently every semester for two years before starting to take business classes. I’m also concerned about applying to the business school and somehow managing to get in so it would be like a waste of two years … Like, I don’t see how I can do an internship the summer after sophomore/junior year if I do that since I have no ‘business’ experience…</p>
<p>So then… what schools would allow me to take business classes with substances and not just economics and accounting (which I’ve already taken/going to take (AP Econ + College Accounting (affiliated with local CC))) + fit my criteria?</p>
<p>If you don’t want an all rounded education and want to ‘dive’ into business classes, then yes, small schools are your best bet. I only had to take science, math, psych, etc classes first year of college. Second year and onward, it was only business. Of course this is different at every school. And what exactly do you mean by “business classes with substances”</p>
<p>Yeah, I basically don’t want a REALLY-well rounded education. Like, I can understand taking a few, but I don’t want to take classes as though I’m at a LAC for the first two years of college and have no business classes whatsoever. I guess I’m looking for a school like yours.</p>
<p>Business classes with substance: Not just 101 classes, but classes that focus on different aspects of business that a professor is an expert on… if that makes any sense.</p>
<p>Well you can’t quite ‘dive’ into those types of classes anyway because they are usually the 300 and 400 level classes. You need to fulfill the necessary requirements from 200 level business classes so you obviously know what you are doing once you get into upper level classes. I don’t think you will see 100 level business classes. 100 level courses are typically general math, science, psych classes. My math 122 course (business calculus) was a requirement for my business degree as was a speech 100-level course.</p>
<p>Some schools allow it. I went to a 10K Catholic school where there was a second-semester freshman in a 300-level economics course offered by the business school.</p>
<p>Large schools (#2) with a separate college of business (#1) tend to have a very rigid set of pre-reqs before anyone can take a upper-level business course. And at many of these schools, there’s a separate admissions process that requires you to hold a good GPA to continue onto upper-level business courses.</p>
I’ll look more into UT and see if its worth it, though staying in Texas after graduation is a bit of a turn-off.</p>