Bama, PSU, OSU, Wisco, or Clemson?

Which one of these state universities places the best for IB? I know they are all on similar tier of difficulty to get in and I’m sure to a certain degree they all have very similar placement. Also, feel free to suggest other public universities with the same level of difficulty to get in, that typically places better than these schools.

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PSU places the best IMO, due to the Nittany Lion Fund. If you get into that, you place. If you don't, it's about the same as the other schools.

Second place is Ohio, then Wisco. Just far better academic institutions in general compared to the rest of the list.

 

Side note: I love these sorts of posts as these are real world decisions. Anyone who is concerned about whether Stanford or Harvard is best for IB honestly shouldn't be accepted to either.

 

ohio state best of these for banking closely followed by penn state and then wisco. NLF at penn state has on average better placements than futures but OSU places better outside of the workshop than PSU does so more important to get into NLF makes psu riskier with little benefit over osu. lot of osu kids end up in MM/LMM banking without futures because of target school status at the ohio banks (cain brothers, keybanc, BGL, 5/3, riverside private equity, and citizens) 

don't go to clemson or alabama 

 

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