Which school would you go to?

Calcruzer
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:04:55 +0000

Order of difficulty to get into would be BC, Villanova, TCNJ, and Indiana.

The midwestern location is why Indiana is easier to get into (although the difficulty has been going up every year–especially for their business school). The others are all in the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions–which are, along with California, more highly sought after as college locations.

The only real reason that Indiana is ranked somewhat lower in the USNW overall ranking than other top business schools is because they have no Engineering program. Almost all the other top schools (Penn, MIT, Berkeley, Michigan, USC, UNC, Texas, Emory, Virginia, Illinois and Cornell) have top engineering programs also. The state of Indiana decided to put their engineering school at Purdue, and most of the other top programs at Indiana (Bloomington). As a result, these two schools (Purdue and Indiana) are both ranked lower than if the programs had been combined.

P.S. NYU and Georgetown are the other business school exceptions to the above. NYU has no engineering school, but their programs in film, theatre, music, and their NYC location make up for this. Georgetown has a Washington, DC location and strong programs in Foreign Service, Law, Medicine, and the Sciences.