As the recent BusinessWeek article “ROI: Business Schools with Bang for the Buck” puts it, “You don’t have to pay a fortune to get a $50,000-a-year starting salary.” People seem to forget, but you can actually get a low-cost, high-value undergraduate business education that will help you land a top job post grad without years of debt to pay off.
While the advantage of saving money straight out of school is considerable, there are certain disadvantages to choosing a low-cost school: The schools that provide the highest “bang for the buck” are generally speaking low-ranked schools in terms of quality. That means you’ll get larger classes, few faculty office hours, and not much support when it comes to job placement, especially in the public university system. Of course there are exceptions, like UNC’s Kenan-Flagler, a top tier undergraduate b-school.
Here are the rankings:
Top 10 Public Undergraduate Business Programs for ROI
1. Central Florida, Orlando
2. Florida (Warrington), Gainesville
3. Florida International University, Miami
4. Florida State University, Tallahassee
5. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler), Chapel Hill
6. Louisiana State (Ourso), Baton Rouge
7. Oklahoma (Price), Norman
8. North Carolina State, Raleigh
9. Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
10. California Polytechnic (Orfalea), San Luis Obispo
Top 10 Private Undergraduate Business Programs for ROI
1. Brigham Young (Marriott), Provo, Utah
2. Cornell, Ithaca, NY
3. DePaul, Chicago
4. MIT (Sloan), Cambridge, MA
5. Hofstra (Zarb), New York
6. Baylor (Hankamer), Waco, TX
7. Marquette, Milwaukee
8. Northeastern University, Boston
8. Texas Christian (Neeley), Fort Worth
8. Seton Hall (Stillman), South Orange, NJ
Related Accepted.com Resources
- The Rankings: An Accepted.com Special Report
- Forbes ROI MBA Rankings for 2010
- 2010 Rankings: Undergraduate Business Schools Take on the Recession
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