<p>In terms of recruiting, which school for undergrad would be better?</p>
<p>Recruiting is about equal. UCLA gets a lot of recruits visiting, both because it’s the top school in Los Angeles, and because it is one of the top schools on th entire west coast. UC Berkeley is slightly higher rated overall at the undergrad level (#21 vs #25 per US News and World Report), but the MBA schools are about equivalent.</p>
<p>I suppose the key question is whether you plan to major in business at the undergraduate level. Then you need to know that UC Berkeley’s undergraduate business school ties with Univ of Michigan’s for 3rd place nationwide, while UCLA has no–repeat, no–degree available in any undergraduate business area; they offer a business degree only at the graduate level.</p>
<p>UCLA offers fantastic degrees in many other areas, however. Linguistics, antropology, and various engineering areas area all rank among the top 5 or 10 programs nationwide.</p>
<p>thanks, but if I want to pursue ibanking right out of college, my best bet would be going to UC berkeley and then apply to get into Haas? </p>
<p>The other option would be to do biz econ at UCLA.</p>
<p>Seems like everyone on this site (my son included) wants to go straight into i-banking.</p>
<p>In that case, you’re best best is to go to UC Berkeley (Haas), since as I’ve stated on other threads on CC, the undergraduate business degree (especially with a Finance major) is the best course to i-banking.</p>