BU Vs Northeastern Vs Babson Vs UIUC for business undergrad
Hey, I'm from India. I've been admitted to all these places in the respective business schools and I'm having a tough time deciding between these for business and for a prospective career in banking/consulting. What is important for me is the career opportunities, campus life, the crowd and social life.
At BU, I was impressed by the reputation of the Questrom School of Business and their amazing career development services. They have also been ranked #6 for employment by Times Higher Education. However, I've read that the campus is not very good and there is not much of a traditional college feel.
For Northeastern, they have a nice campus and CO-OP which I've heard is pretty amazing and helps in employment to a extent. Also, they've been coming up a lot in the recent years and constantly boosting up.
For Babson, I love the close knit business environment. Babson has an amazing reputation for business, specially internationally. However, I've been told it's not very good for finance and for employment. I see myself fit at Babson, but the employment factor is kind of worrying.
At UIUC, the accounting program is very reputed and I can double major in finance and accounting. The Gies School of Business just received a $150M reputation and they're increasing the focus on business. However, it's mostly known as an engineering school and the location isn't as great as Boston.
Cost is not much of an issue for me. Please help me decide.
probably BU
I would appreciate you giving reasons. Also, what would the second choice be for you?
I would appreciate you giving reasons. Also which should be the second choice according to you?
Definitely BU
Could you please give reasons?
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Can you help me decide between these places?
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Do you need visa maybe a important question about location
BU Vs Northeastern Vs Babson Vs UIUC for business (finance) (Originally Posted: 04/09/2018)
Hey, I'm from India. I've been admitted to all these places in the respective business schools and I'm having a tough time deciding between these for business and for a prospective career in banking/consulting. What is important for me is the career opportunities, campus life, the crowd and social life.
At BU, I was impressed by the reputation of the Questrom School of Business and their amazing career development services. They have also been ranked #6 for employment by Times Higher Education. However, I've read that the campus is not very good and there is not much of a traditional college feel.
For Northeastern, they have a nice campus and CO-OP which I've heard is pretty amazing and helps in employment to a extent. Also, they've been coming up a lot in the recent years and constantly boosting up.
For Babson, I love the close knit business environment. Babson has an amazing reputation for business, specially internationally. However, I've been told it's not very good for finance and for employment. I see myself fit at Babson, but the employment factor is kind of worrying.
At UIUC, the accounting program is very reputed and I can double major in finance and accounting. The Gies School of Business just received a $150M reputation and they're increasing the focus on business. However, it's mostly known as an engineering school and the location isn't as great as Boston.
Cost is not much of an issue for me. Please help me decide.
I didn't exactly get what you mean. If you're talking about the H1B, then yes I'll be wanting to obtain it.
Hi Akshat-Jain, the silence is deafening, sorry about that.... Any of the threads below helpful?
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Fingers crossed that one of those helps you.
UIUC has a lot of people going into Chicago Boutique's and BB IBD. But it all depends on fit of the school for you.
I went to Babson and can provide feedback.
I would go to BU or Babson depending on whether you feel you would be a better fit at a larger, less close-knit, urban, diverse school (BU) versus a smaller, suburban, business-oriented school (Babson).
There is a heavy international contingent at Babson and a lot of the professors are practitioners. If you excel there you can get into the BBs and McK/BCG/Bain. I was able to come out of there on the investment side for a mutual fund. However, these jobs are few, and you really have to be one of the top students in the class and network hard.
I would assume BU would have more opportunities, but not materially more and you’d also have to excel there and network hard.
I think this just comes down to fit and what you want, and wherever you are happier will lead to better outcomes.
Thank you. I've always heard that Babson is not very great in terms of employment maybe because employers don't like there focus on entrepreneurship. Is this true?
That's false, there is a lot of OCR. Take a look at the employment reports...they should be on the career center website. Students generally do very well in terms of job placement.
Hey Akshat, I’m from India as well! Mumbai. The only college I have in common with you is UIUC, I’m considering a few others but those are other public ones like: IU and OSU, I did get a presidential scholarship at the University of Richmond so I am considering that. My main advice is, primarily because your choices are so vast, first figure out where would you thrive the most: in a smaller university with smaller class sizes or would big class sizes not hamper your academic progress. If it won’t, I’d recommend UIUC as they’re one of the few best undergrad business schools in Illinois and around Chicago making it easier to get jobs in Chicago, while in Boston and Massachusetts so many schools would make competition for jobs harder.
Not sure if you have made your decision yet but I went to BU and my best friend went to UIUC - both of us for business - so here's my two cent's worth:
You mentioned the amazing career development service - sorry to disappoint you, although the career development office has great folks, like most career service development offices, they're not the most useful in helping you get job placements. Not many of us gets placed into BBs (i'm assuming you're here because you're interested in wallstreet/corp finance/cap markets) but those who did worked their asses off and understand how difficult it is. And most of the time they're very willing to give back to the undergrad community to help the current batch get a leg up. I would say find a good club to join and tap on alumni from those clubs - almost no one will turn you down for an informational interview if you're sufficiently ernest.
I got into UIUC as well and similarly was very attracted by their strong accounting program. And because Urbana/Champagne is located in the suburbs with less people/things around, the kids tend to be closer knitted than in a city campus like BU. But being in Boston taught me the importance of being geographically strategic - many firms come down to Boston to recruit because of the high concentration of great colleges here (Harvard, MIT, Wellesley, Tufts, Babson, BC etc.) so you wouldn't need to haul yourself to Chicago for coffee sessions or informational interviews. Don't underestimate how time consuming this is when you're doing this multiple times a semester on top of classes, case competitions and club commitments.
Being in a city with a high concentration of good colleges also means great faculty. Most of my professors had taught in another top college in the vicinity or graduated from there, worked in Boston and simply decided to become an academic there.
What I truely appreciated about Questrom was that, despite the large student population, most professors are genuinely interested in helping you excel as long as you take the initiative. We had to take liberal arts classes at the other colleges, and I can't say the same for the other course faculties.
I'd say come up with a list of priorities and see which college comes closest to what you're looking for. Good Luck.
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