Tuck School of Business

Tuck School of Business, part of the prestigious Dartmouth College, is the oldest graduate school of business in the world (founded in 1900). It offers only one degree programme, the full-time MBA, and claims this gives it added focus. The school is noted for general management, teamwork, close student–faculty relations and the Tuck experience of a small residential programme in a beautiful, if slightly remote, semi-rural setting. Almost all work is done in assigned teams and the ability to succeed in collaborative working is essential.

Admission
The MBA program at Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH) admits students who have an average GMAT score of 719, which is drastically higher than the average for all Graduate Business Schools, and an average incoming GPA of 3.5, which is far higher than the average for all Graduate Business Schools.

Student Body
The total enrollment at Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH) is 280, which is slightly more than the average for all Graduate Business Schools. The average work experience of a Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH) MBA student is 5 years.

Stanford University

Stanford University is a private institution that was founded in 1885. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 7,063, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 8,180 acres. It utilizes a quarter based academic calendar. Stanford University’s ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 5. Its tuition and fees are $43,245 (2013-14).

Stanford University’s pristine campus is located in California’s Bay Area, about 30 miles from San Francisco. Stanford offers a wide range of student organizations, including the Stanford Pre-Business Association and Stanford Solar Car Project, which designs, builds, and races a solar car every two years. The Stanford Cardinals are well known for the traditional “Big Game” against Cal, an annual football competition that awards the Stanford Axe- a sought after trophy- to the victor. Stanford also has successful programs in tennis and golf. Only freshman are required to live on campus, but students are guaranteed housing for all four years and most choose to remain on campus. Greek life at Stanford represents approximately 10 percent of the student body.

Columbia Business School

The Business School at Columbia University offers graduate programs in these departments and concentrations: accounting, consulting, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, general management, health care administration, human resources management, international business leadership, marketing, production/operations management, portfolio management, real estate, and quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research. Its tuition is full-time: $58,384 per year and executive: $2,688 per credit. At graduation, 77.0 percent of graduates of the full-time program are employed.

At Columbia Business School, graduate students can pursue a full-time M.B.A., executive M.B.A., Ph.D., and Master of Science in Marketing or Financial Economics. Regardless of their degree focus, students can take courses offered across Columbia University’s academic divisions as electives, which make up more than half the M.B.A. curriculum. For students who prefer a broader education, dual degrees are offered at 10 other schools at Columbia University, varying from a master’s in urban planning to a dental degree.

In the core M.B.A. classes, groups of about 60 students take all first-year classes together – an attempt by the school to foster a sense of community. Students can check out about 100 graduate organizations, catch frequent presentations by business leaders, and research in more than 20 centers on campus, like the Center for Decision Sciences and the Center on Japanese Economy and Business. Graduates students may live in university housing but are not guaranteed a spot.

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is ranked second by Economist. It was known as The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business before 2008, when it was renamed following the grant of an $300 million endowment by alumnus David G. Booth. The school has two additional campuses in Singapore and London, apart from two campuses in Chicago, USA.

Students in the Full-time MBA, Executive MBA, and Part-time MBA programs can concentrate in one or more areas, although some concentrations’ required coursework may necessitate schedule modifications for students enrolled in the part-time program. The areas are:

-          Accounting
-          Economics
-          Finance
-          General Management
-          Human resource management
-          International business
-          Marketing management
-          Operations management
-          Strategic management

Financial Education?

I've often wondered why financial education isn't taught in school just like math, English and science. In truth, I think it needs to be a core subject. It's certainly a skill that we'll all utilize throughout our lives, and without it we tend to suffer.

Perhaps that's the reason. If you subscribe to some of the theories out there, the modern education system was designed and funded by the elite over a century ago. At that time the globe was full into the industrial revolution, and there was a high demand for factory workers.

Why not create an "education system" that churns out obedient, well trained workers to man the factories. They'd be used to reporting in at a certain time, asking to use the washrooms, eating and taking breaks when the establishment permits.

Whether you buy into that theory completely or not, I believe there's certainly some truth there. When you follow the money through the system across the globe, it tends to all point back to the same handful of organizations owned by the same handful of wealthy families.

Business School

Trying to get into business school can be gruesome, and you're not even guaranteed a spot on the consultancy firm you're eyeing even if you graduate. The statistics are alarming: Wall Street has lost 34,000 jobs, and only fourteen percent of MBA graduates at the average business school secured consulting jobs last year (down from twenty-four percent five years ago). But getting into a top-rated business school might just get you that extra lift you badly need to get to the top yourself.

Getting into a business school is difficult, depending on your grades and your financial means. First, you need to think about what specific field you want to study. When you have done that, the next thing is to acquire a decent budget. Remember-the top has its price, and it isn't cheap.

After you've done that, try looking at their requirements; most of them have units in finance as prerequisites or require job experience (for graduate school). Preparing yourself for the interview is very helpful, as some of the top-rated business schools tend to accept students with better-developed personalities. State business schools are a way to go if you want a decent school without the "price over quality" tag some private business schools have. Some state-run schools are top rated, too, but admission is very competitive.

If you're planning on entering a private business school, there are many to choose from. Try to research which field the school is known for and then weigh your options. A well-known name or a general reputation of a school may appear more than it actually is, so you have to be careful not to be deceived with this. A true top business school produces the best students; research the top executives running the big companies or those who own successful consultancy firms today and see which school they graduated from.

Once you've entered business school, you will find that the lessons are more realistic in a sense that the cases you study or are presented with are from actual situations in the corporate world. You might be embedded in a lot of research work for this and that can become overwhelming if you're working part time. Don't get fooled by Tom Cruise in "Risky Business." These schools can be exhausting.

Another thing to check is the faculty and research facilities they have. How many books have the faculty published and how efficient are the laboratories and libraries? Scheduling for a campus tour must cover these things.

Financial School

So, you are done with high school and you need to decide on a university. Well, I recommend financial school. Why do I recommend it now, when we are still dealing with the effects of the financial crisis and no one is willing to pay a large salary to any of their employees? That is exactly why I recommend it, because people today are more afraid of not wasting their money that they will actually pay for someone to tell them what to do with their money. That is where you come in and provide with financial services for reasonable fees. Why should these people give their money to someone else? Follow a financial school and let them give the money to you.

Now, financial school might be about numbers and calculus, but it is also about knowing how to deal with certain financial issues and also learning a bit about the law behind financial situations. You will surely appreciate the fact that any kind of calculus you have to do is basic and does not involve advanced mathematics or any kind of complicated formulas. All you need to do is to know what you add and subtract to get the right number.

You will surely find it reasonably easy going through financial school, but remember that you do need to be a professional adviser after you graduate, so make sure that all the information you get is accurate and that you remember it when you need it. Providing with quality financial services should be easy.