WUSTL Olin vs. NYU Stern

balancedhelium
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:24:08 +0000

As a current Olin student, I will say that Stern that is probably more highly recognized. Part of it comes from the fact that it is in NYC and recruiters don’t have to go very far to go there and Wall Street is so close by. More graduates of Stern take i-banking jobs, etc.

With that said, I think student quality itself is better than Stern. I have friends who turned down Stern to come to Olin because they liked certain aspects of WashU more than NYU (flexibility to study across different schools, focus on undergrad teaching, smaller class sizes, professors and senior faculty get to know undergrads, etc.) And people at WashU do go onto top jobs in consulting, finance, etc.