Best Colleges for Business
Undergrad business degrees vary enormously in quality. The differentiator is recruiter access: do bulge-bracket banks, top consulting firms, and big tech actively recruit on this campus? The schools below have that pipeline, plus active alumni networks that move you into roles after graduation. For finance and consulting specifically, school name still matters more than GPA.
Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard
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University of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania · Private nonprofit
5%acceptance rate - 2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts · Private nonprofit
5%acceptance rate - 3
University of California-Berkeley
California · Public
11%acceptance rate - 4
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Michigan · Public
16%acceptance rate - 5
New York University
New York · Private nonprofit
9%acceptance rate - 6
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Virginia · Public
17%acceptance rate - 7
Cornell University
New York · Private nonprofit
9%acceptance rate - 8
Indiana University-Bloomington
Indiana · Public
78%acceptance rate - 9
University of Notre Dame
Indiana · Private
13%acceptance rate - 10
University of Notre Dame
Indiana · Private nonprofit
11%acceptance rate - 11
University of Texas at Austin
Texas · Public
31%acceptance rate - 12
Babson College
Massachusetts · Private nonprofit
17%acceptance rate - 13
Bentley University
Massachusetts · Private nonprofit
45%acceptance rate
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