Choice of School

Good morning Monkeys,

I need to give someone advice on where to go to school for finance/business and wanted to hear what you guys think. Please rank Maryland, Purdue, Indiana, University of Illinois, or Wisconsin.

 
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I am assuming their goal is IB/"high finance" (if not, I'd stick with hightheta01 's revised ranking). That being said, I would agree, except put Illinois ahead of Wisconsin. Their alumni base for IB is STRONG. I'm using all caps because I can't stress this enough. I'm talking Evercore, JPM, RBC, and others. Illinois places directly into startups, Google, MBB, etc. as well.

My ranking: 1) Indiana 2) Illinois 3) Wisconsin 4) Maryland 5) Purdue

Also ... tell them to try to get into Umich. Might be tough, but you never know.

Good luck.

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Illinois and Wisconsin last.

Purdue, IU, Maryland (CP) are all decent

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If you can get into the IB program at Indiana, that's a great place to go.

Beyond that, UW Madison and UIUC are also great choices.

Purdue and Maryland aren't bad either.

If you go to Maryland, I'd urge you consider a double-major in CS or Engineering-- they're a stronger school for CS/Engineering than business IIRC, and you're going to be competing against a lot of east coast kids with Wharton and NYU on their resumes. As for Purdue, if Purdue is in-state, so is IU Kelley, and I'd rather send you to IU unless you're dead-set on engineering.

They're all great flagship state schools. You can't go wrong; try to find one that will give you a scholarship or reduced tuition (are any in-state?)

Some consideration should be given to a double-major in engineering or CS if you're comfortable with math. Engineering is where the state schools kick Ivy League butt and where you can get a degree that's competitive with Cornell or even Princeton for 1/4 the cost.

 

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