Which one would you chose?

ryanbis
Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:45:49 +0000

“I have never met a finance major at BU, less one that likes finance.”

Then your experiences with the school must be quite limited–40% of SMG concentrates in finance.

“All you can take is 3 finance courses as part of their undergradute business curriculum,which actually looks good.”

That is not correct. I do not have the course bulletin with me; however, there were certainly more than 3 finance courses offered when I attended. In addition, a lot of topics you cover in advanced courses are integrated into other core courses.

“At babson, since it is so small, you get personal attention, unlike BU(with like 17000 ugs)”

SMG has an extremely different culture from the rest of BU and feels very small. You will know the significant portion of your class (in SMG) and all of your professors (with few exceptions) will you know your name.

To the original poster’s question: these schools are pretty different. I don’t think any one will provide you with an extremely significant advantage over another in terms of career prospects (at least for a strong student). I work with people from all of these schools and will tell you that your career success will have more to do with you and the effort you put in rather than which of these four you select (at least in Massachusetts). Each has its own stregnth and unique slant on a business education (i.e. NU’s co-op, BU’s integrated curriculum, etc.)–I recommend that you learn more about each school and decide which sounds like a better fit for you.