Did you study business as an undergrad? What was the one thingthat helped you make the decision to study at a specificuniversity?
|Today, prospective business school students pay attention toother parameters besides published “best of” lists, such as theamount of debt incurred on the way to their degree. Onepossible way to mitigate this resides in 529 plans. But prospectivestudents can also look at potential salaries, which can helpthem pay down the debt once they start working.
|A recent Bloomberg Businessweek report appropriately titled“Best undergraduate business schools, 2016,”details a survey of nearly 30,000 students and recruiters at almost600 companies. The report, which has rated the top U.S.undergraduate business programs since 2006, ranked the collegesusing four main metrics:
- An employer survey
- A student survey
- Starting salaries (or the base salary of students who lined upjobs right after graduation)
- The percentage of a school's graduates who had at least oneinternship during college.
(You can read the full methodology on theBloomberg article here.)
|Here are the top 20 undergraduate business programs fromBloomberg's list of around 115 schools:
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No. 20: Michigan State University (Broad)
Last year's rank: 42.
|Employer survey rank: 15.
|Student survey rank: 29.
|Salary rank: 41.
|Internship rank: 55.
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|No. 19: Pennsylvania State University (Smeal)
Last year's rank: 30.
|Employer survey rank: 8.
|Student survey rank: 38.
|Salary rank: 40.
|Internship rank: 61.
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No. 18: Brigham Young University (Marriott)
Last year's rank: 13.
|Employer survey rank: 19.
|Student survey rank: 20.
|Salary rank: 37.
|Internship rank: 34.
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No. 17: Georgetown University (McDonough)
Last year's rank: 18.
|Employer survey rank: 49.
|Student survey rank: 17.
|Salary rank: 4.
|Internship rank: 14.
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No. 16: University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Last year's rank: 7.
|Employer survey rank: 66.
|Student survey rank: 14.
|Salary rank: 1.
|Internship rank: 8.
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|No. 15: Emory University (Goizueta)
Last year's rank: 9.
|Employer survey rank: 51.
|Student survey rank: 9.
|Salary rank: 14.
|Internship rank: 11.
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No. 14: Ohio State University (Fisher)
Last year's rank: 32.
|Employer survey rank: 7.
|Student survey rank: 18.
|Salary rank: 65.
|Internship rank: 37.
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No. 13: WakeForest University
Last year's rank: 11.
|Employer survey rank: 54.
|Student survey rank: 6.
|Salary rank: 12.
|Internship rank: 5.
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No. 12: College of William & Mary (Mason)
Last year's rank: 22.
|Employer survey rank: 39.
|Student survey rank: 3.
|Salary rank: 28.
|Internship rank: 41.
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No. 11: Cornell University (Dyson)
Last year's rank: 3.
|Employer survey rank: 67.
|Student survey rank: 4.
|Salary rank: 2.
|Internship rank: 9.
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No. 10: Bentley University
Last year's rank: 20.
|Employer survey rank: 3.
|Student survey rank: 19.
|Salary rank: 53.
|Internship rank: 25.
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No. 9: NewYork University (Stern)
Last year's rank: 14.
|Employer survey rank: 6.
|Student survey rank: 34.
|Salary rank: 8.
|Internship rank: 16.
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No. 8: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (Ross)
Last year's rank: 12.
|Employer survey rank: 27.
|Student survey rank: 15.
|Salary rank: 6.
|Internship rank: 3.
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|No. 7: University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
Last year's rank: 10.
|Employer survey rank: 28.
|Student survey rank: 8.
|Salary rank: 9.
|Internship rank: 17.
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No. 6: Texas at Austin
Last year's rank: 6.
|Employer survey rank: 12.
|Student survey rank: 12.
|Salary rank: 15.
|Internship rank: 7.
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|No. 5: University of Virginia
Last year's rank: 3.
|Employer survey rank: 43.
|Student survey rank: 2.
|Salary rank: 3.
|Internship rank: 6.
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No. 4: Indiana University
Last year's rank: 8.
|Employer survey rank: 4.
|Student survey rank: 13.
|Salary rank: 19.
|Internship rank: 18.
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No. 3: BostonCollege
Last year's rank: 4.
|Employer survey rank: 5.
|Student survey rank: 5.
|Salary rank: 17.
|Internship rank: 12.
||No. 2: University of Notre Dame
Last year's rank: 1.
|Employer survey rank: 18.
|Student survey rank: 1.
|Salary rank: 13.
|Internship rank: 31.
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No. 1: Villanova University
Last year's rank: 24.
|Employer survey rank: 2.
|Student survey rank: 10.
|Salary rank: 29.
|Internship rank: 15.
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