Best not so selective public schools for finance

What are good schools for finance that are not too hard to get into? Preferably ones that are semi target/ low semi target for companies.

Ik berkely, uva,ut austin, unc, uva, michigan, chicago are good but they are also hella selective. And i'm in texas so expensive for oos.

fordham,university of florida, texas a&m, washington state university any good?

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UF is a solid school. Does well in the South and also has a solid pipeline into Evercore.

IU Kelley and maybe Penn State and OSU. Might need to be in IBW, NLF, Fisher Futures to have decent odds though. UGA has a solid pipeline into Citi.  

Btw, Chicago is private (as is Fordham).

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Also do you hace any thoughts on fordham? How does it stack up agains the others. It appealed to me cuz i might be able to go there for the same price as the others due to merit scholarships and cuz its in nyc

 

Kelley, Ohio State, Penn State, believe it or not Arizona State has an OK program, Arizona isn't terrible either, Michigan State is below average placement but FMI sends a few kids, UIUC places pretty decent to Chicago banks. Those would be the big ones, essentially in order w/ the exception of UIUC being an outlier since virtually all placement is to Chicago. 

 
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