Top Schools of the Decade

I thought it might be fun to discuss which schools people think will improve in IB and which schools will take a step back in the next 10 years. Feel free to disagree and add as you see fit

Most improving schools of the decade: -SMU- while it will never be a top 15 school for the foreseeable future, it poised for a breakout. It’s in Texas where the finance sector is growing and will continue to grow while NY and CA have such high taxes. Rich parents, pretty campus, and a dropping acceptance rate

-USC Marshall- tough to say since USC has already risen in rankings and reputation the last 10 years but to addition of Wharton’s Dean and the school generally attracting more kids in IB (at least from its growing presence on this forum) should solidify its top 3 west coast ranking and start to take more spots in IB

-Wash U Olin- get wrecked on this forum for actually being a pretty good school with the richest median household income and a 6% acceptance rate B school. It’s name is growing outside of finance and I expect it to soon hit the BB as well.

-Cornell- HYP are no longer accepting as many IB focused kids and are getting more liberal artsy, in the past few recruiting cycles I’ve seen these kids come out of Cornell (as well as Wharton of course) instead.

Schools that could downward trend:

Berkeley Haas: more and more kids are choosing UCLA and USC over Berkeley while 10 years ago it would have been a no brainer. They’ve relied on their reputation for a while and being known as a not too much fun school isn’t helping. Neither are state budget cuts...

Brown: Student interest in finance will probably keep dropping along with placement-it will always be an ivy and kids will always get offers.. I just expect less.

Many Liberal Arts Schools: I see a lot of these kids wanting to head into big tech instead of finance due to work life balance and interest. Being a disliked industry by SJW also probably hurts reputation on campus.

Agree, disagree, let me know