Latest rankings from BusinessWeek...impressive showing by Virginia schools:

#2 UVA
#17 Richmond
#27 William & Mary
#29 JMU

Full list can be found at http://www.businessweek.com/reports/business-schools/best-undergraduate-business-schools-2013#r=lr-sr

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ANd undergraduate business degree isn't worth shit. Plan on Grad School or running a shoe store.

#16: McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

Hoya Saxa, Baby!

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> ANd undergraduate business degree isn't worth
> shit. Plan on Grad School or running a shoe
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My undergraduate business degree gets me $223k a year.

Maybe you're just an idiot.

Bwahahahaah. VaTech is 52.

It takes them 4 years to learn to ask if the customer wants fries with his order.

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> ANd undergraduate business degree isn't worth
> shit. Plan on Grad School or running a shoe
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The quality of undergraduate business school programs has improved dramatically over the past 15-20 years with a lot more practical, content-rich and integrated instruction. An MBA can help you specialize, but the entry-level jobs are pretty good and the options for advancement are there if you have the right motivation.

Where is the prestigious School of Management for George Mason University? Surely that should be near the top. These rankings really are subjective though. I guess in the end unless you go to one of these real elite schools a college degree is a college degree though.

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> ANd undergraduate business degree isn't worth
> shit. Plan on Grad School or running a shoe
> store.

Their ranking system isn't all about academics. Even there, it ranks regionals on a different scale than national universities.

I believe Wake Forest and UVA have the highest CPA pass rates in the country. A couple of years ago JMU graduate accounting program had the highest pass rate.

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> > ANd undergraduate business degree isn't worth
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> > store.
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> My undergraduate business degree gets me $223k a
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> Maybe you're just an idiot.


nice alias. The boss wants you to take out the garbage and clean the tables. Hamburger don't flip themselves!

I have found that undergraduate business majors can ADD numbers, but they CAN'T write, they CAN'T read, and they CAN'T process information.

Give me a liberal arts major who can THINK, REASON, and QUESTION. I can work with a malleable mind, not a dog or pony that can do tricks.

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> ANd undergraduate business degree isn't worth
> shit. Plan on Grad School or running a shoe
> store.


It's not? Try having an undergraduate communications degree, which I have.

And still I managed to make a dam good living in business.

I would have been in much better shape starting off if I had ANY business background.

However, I was able to catch up and do well enough that I can retire with 2 homes and nice cars at 50.

Go figure.

Obviously you don't need a business degree to go into business (whatever a business degree is anyway---can someone explain what it is?). You're probably much better off taking a liberal arts degree so that you learn to read, write and speak effectively (argue your point on anything). With those skills you can master anything else that comes along. The liberal arts are far from dead.

The whole liberal arts degree is a joke and common sense. Why go to college at all if all it does is teach you to read write and speak effectively. (High School does all of that) The only reason to go to college is to pickup a skill see STEM aka where the real jobs are.

The pass rates are heavily dependent on how many decide to take the test at the end of their senior year. There are schools with better reputations farther down the list. Most students require multiple tries to pass and use one of the test preparation services.

NoPanic Wrote:
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> Latest rankings from BusinessWeek...impressive
> showing by Virginia schools:
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> #2 UVA
> #17 Richmond
> #27 William & Mary
> #29 JMU
>

Steven Jobs Wrote:
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> I have found that undergraduate business majors
> can ADD numbers, but they CAN'T write, they CAN'T
> read, and they CAN'T process information.
>
> Give me a liberal arts major who can THINK,
> REASON, and QUESTION. I can work with a malleable
> mind, not a dog or pony that can do tricks.


Nothing special about liberal arts majors. STEM majors have to read, write, analyze and understand all topics. The brain has to be malleable and think critically in order to pass four semesters of multi variable calculus.