Lehigh, GWU, Bentley University, or Fordham

I’m a current senior is high school and trying to pick where to go next year out of the following 4 schools (I would be studying finance at all of them)

Lehigh university, George Washington University, Bentley university, Fordham University

I don’t really know what I want to do after college but I’m interesting in IB, PE, and Sales & Trading, as well as government opportunities like the fed or treasury.

Price doesn’t really matter they are all going to cost about the same.

Would love your input!

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Holding all else equal, I'd do Lehigh as I see a disproportionate number of alum considering the size of the school. In non-finance circles I'd say Lehigh and GW are probably seen as the best schools. However, academically all schools are in similar enough that if you have a strong preference for non-academic reasons I'd go select that school.

 
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I went to Lehigh. It’s a good school, and the alumni network is pretty sizable / responsive if you reach out thoughtfully. To a lesser extent, had some success networking with other Patriot League school alumni (Bucknell, Colgate, even Lafayette all have a good alumni base as well). It’s also fun as fuck - highly recommend getting involved with Greek Life.


I think actual recruiting today is fairly limited but there is some. It’s not easy to break in but you have a fair shot as long as you do everything right.

 

All four will give you a shot if you work hard and do the right things.

If you know you want to do finance / econ work with the government, I would lean GWU. You could probably intern during the school year with a member of congress and find summer gigs at the FED or Treasury / Commerce Department 

 

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