Which CSU for Business Major?

LSkaiWalk
Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:48:24 +0000

Good point SDMom.

Yeah USC is a great school. USD has also been doing really well recently. I was deciding between SCU & Cal Poly SLO and choose SLO. But SCU is a great school too. You can also take the more theoretical approach and take business economics at a UC like UCSB and get a great education too.

You mention LMU… USD & SCU were ranked in the top 50 on BusinessWeek. LMU didn’t even make top 100… I have heard mediocre things about LMU business… Chapman is decent. Also, these private schools are VERY expensive.

Back to the best Cal State for business, I forgot to make one point. Cal Poly SLO is a residential campus that offers the full college experience, while most other Cal States are commuter schools. Cal Poly has a charming, relaxed, easy-going, “SLOw Life” feel to it. However, SDSU has the big city life, if that’s what you’re looking for. And while both SDSU & SLO have pretty big party scenes, SDSU has a big reputation as a party school which might be bad for employers & general reputation.

I would rank Cal States for business:

1. Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

2. San Diego State University

3. Fullerton (got a brand new really nice business building - heard they got a great accounting program)

4. Long Beach (getting actually pretty hard to get into)

(LB & F tied for third.)

If you can’t make it to one of those four, I would say you should go to a community college and aim to transfer to UC Berk or USC.

Lots of other Cal States are decent for business too… not to exclude any, but to name a few other decent options: San Jose, Northridge, Chico, Pomona, etc…