Originally posted by ScarletKid2008:
MBA program is not so great. If you ranked just undergrad program I think we would be higher. Tons of RU NB undergrads are landing great Wall St jobs and most end up actually pacing and doing really well in a quick time.
I think the MBA & Newark schools are bringing the overall ranking down. There is just not as much of a focus on those and it doesn't help to have a business school half in NB and half in Newark. Like many other programs at RU. NB should just be the flagship campus and that's it.
Congratulations you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
First, the rankings listed are for MBA. The rankings for graduate and professional programs are done separately. MBA program has risen from 60th to 48th in one year. Nearly unprecedented jump.
Second, best faculty in the overall business school teach both undergrads and MBAs.
Third, grad school program in MQF, Professional Accounting and Government Accounting are top 10-15 in the country.
Fourth, MBA is never going going to place high on Wall Street until all those RU undergrads you speak of start to advocate for RU at hiring time. Wall Street hiring is an efficiency game. It is more efficient, in the minds of banks, to swoop into Columbia, NYU and Wharton, as far as Northeastern schools are concerned, and get all their hiring done in one shot. That said, what you are finding among the Top 15 schools, is a lack of interest in Wall Street from their top students. They all want hedge funds, Google, Apple, Tesla, Facebook, Uber, or an equity position in a start-up. They don't want to go make $175k at Goldman running pitch books till 2:30 in the morning.
Fifth, RU MBAs in supply chain, marketing, pharma management all place at least equal to, if not better, than their counterparts at other Top 30 schools. Supply Chain and pharma management are top 5 programs nationally. Supply Chain might be the best in the country. And no program places in pharma like RU. Finance, and more specifically, Wall Street and white shoe consulting (McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Innosight) are the two areas where RU has ground to make up. But they certainly don't "bring the overall reputation of the school down." That is just dumb.
Last, the center of gravity of the MBA program will always be in Newark for financial and practical reasons. You think you are going to attract students from all over the world, many who are leaving 6 figure jobs to go to school, to live in Highland Park? The attractiveness of living in Hoboken, Jersey City, Brooklyn, lower Manhattan, is the pitch prospective students are given. Additionally, some of the best professors in the MBA program are working professionals. Much easier to get to Newark for a 6 pm class for a Street guy, than NB. And that is a primary concern when talking about NB only program. Never gonna happen. This isn't Michigan where there is little competition for geography. You go to Ross with the idea that Ann Arbor will be the center of your life for 2 years. You can't dangle Hoboken, JC, Brooklyn and NYC in front of a candidates face and then tell them to go take a 45 minute train ride to class 4x a week.
