Hallo!
Been doing some college research but I think the best info comes from the students!

Anyone who goes to the above mentioned schools?
If you do, please please please tell me what undergrad program the school is known for (basically, which program(s) are uber good)

Thank you!

Why specifically these colleges? Did you just randomly pick colleges and see what their good for?

boston has a lot of colleges

usc: accounting (leventhal) // business (marshall) // pharm (keck)

there are tons.
one of them is NYU- Stern (Business)

cornell:engineering, though arts and sciences is very goood as well
georgetown- international relations
nyu- business

This is a vague question. Know what you want to do and study then look for the schools that are good at teaching it. Find the locations and check the locations out to see if you like the environment.

Any of those schools will get you far regardless of area of study (maybe some schools have great undergraduate programs). It's their graduate programs that make them stand out.

USC

- Film
- Journalism
- Pharmacy
- Medicine
- Physical Therapy
- Dental School
- Fine Arts
- Music
- Pharmacology & Toxicology
- Business and Accounting
- Football
- Engineering

^ lol. damn looks like USC gots everything covered!

i'd say this is more representative of USC's specialties:

accounting (main specialty)
business (main specialty)
football
film

there's better schools (for some concentrations, WAY better schools) for the other fields on that list.

USC is just holy

ahh, keck<3

cornell - #1 hospitality school.

Boston - a lot of programs that you could look into

BU: good for business/engineering/pre-med --- even grads program for med school
BC: nursing
Harvard: law/pre-med/business/-- excellent grad programs
NU: nursing/pharmacy/business/co-op experiences
UMASS/Amherst: business

there are a lot of choices... you can research by searching the school online and read into the programs that they have. If you want there are some publications about the colleges that are in US and what they're best in based on the ratings. I hope it helps.

NYU is pretty famous for business.
Georgetown has a lot of political science and law students.
and Cornell is known for its engineering program.

columbia is known for journalism & engineering i believe
georgetown is known for their foreign service school
brown is in general just a good liberal arts school
usc is amazing for business, esp. international business

I think she means Boston College.

USC (a bit biased, am a student)- Film, Accounting, Business, Architecture, Pharm (grad)
Columbia- Engineering, Humanities...
Nyu- Film, Theater, Business
Boston- not too sure
Cornell- Agriculture...
Brown- not too sure, Literature, History, most Humanities I think...
Yale- same as Brown plus Theater and sciences
Georgetown- International Relations (top program), Business (mostly finance)

i'll chime in for CU.

Arts & engr are its 2 best schools w/in the university, and the other colleges have their perks of sorts.

Between the Arts & sci, engr, aap colleges, the Dual degree program is amazing & definitely one of cornell's strengths - if you're an overachiver. Not only can you earn 2 degrees (BA, BFA or BS) but you can also double major between them, and juggle about 4 concentrations (and even start your masters in your senior yr , giving CU 6 yrs, but you end up w/ 2 undergrads & 1 graduate degree) Its tough, but the dean (Kay) is really lovely. You just have to be prepared to never leave ithaca

Arts & Sciences
English
creative writing
history
linguistics
East Asian program/ languages
social sciences - I know CU is really investing/self promoting their social sciences dept, so soon it'll be a top contender in that category in about 2-5 yrs.
CAPS - established about 2, 3 yrs ago
Independent


Engr.
Computer Sci -
Nanotechnology - (they're in the process of taking if out of a minor - unless they've already done so & their facilites are in the top 3 in the country, if they don't top it)
I'm sure there's more, but I only know those 2 personally. the whole school is rated well all the way around, mainly because their job placements for grads are very sweet.


Architecture,Art & Planning
Architecture - they're not ever going to let this program slip
the fine art MFA program is highly sought-after, its one of the few in the US where they pay for everything regardless of your need - whether the free ride in a prestigious institution is enough to go through the art dept, is another matter.
the planning masters program is also pretty good.

the hotel school is mainly a unique program. I dont think any other peer institution has put as much into this area as CU.

IlR...
the school doesn't get a lot of play, other than they accept alot of transfers.

the Ag school is great for ppl in NY state (cheap tuition),
state school (where that public/private university part comes in),
land grant w/ NY state , and supposedly its 7 yr vet program is the drooled over by many.
(but I don't like aggies nor the ag school ^^;; engr is better.)

I could post on what my friends who attend columbia, NYU, brown & yale have said... but a student/alumni should.

YES USC

Not too sure about the other schools, but USC seems to be best known for film, engineering, business, accounting, and of course football + fantastic weather.

Krit: Are you a student or alum???


If you're from NY, the government subsidized colleges at Cornell are so worth it. You pay almost $10k less a year and a lot of their majors are tailored fit for some people's interest. Just restating and supporting what people have already said, I know that Cornell is good for sciences (though its tough), engineering, hotel (it's top in hotel administration actually), and economics. The AEM business program is also top 10 in the nation's undergrad business programs.

answering the question above:
cornell is half- government subsidized and half a private school
the arts and science, engineering, archi, and hotel school are all private schools and pretty much the best ones amongst all the cornell schools (both public and private)
arts and sciences is harder to get in but easier to get better grades, while engineering is easier to get into but harder to get good grades in
the archi program is great, but i know a couple of friends who practically stay in the archi building 24/7 because theyre finishing their projects...
cornell tends to grade on a deflation so in general it will be harder to get better grades than you would in any other school, but you just have to study hard
and there is NOTHING to do in ithaca. absolutely nothing, with the exception of the little collegetown. haha (unless you have a car, but still little)

i also know a couple of friends at nyu:
nyu has 3 ( i think) schools: the famous Tisch school of arts, the school of arts and sciences, and stern business schools
tisch is one the greatest music schools and they train their students hard there, stern is one of the top business schools as well, rated along with upenn wharton. the arts and sciences is not as great as the two, but still in the top range

columbia: has 2 good schools: the engineering school and the arts and sciences
many in arts and sciences tend to major in journalism or writing since columbia is known for that, but doesnt mean tha teveryone is majoring in that

brown: is known for its liberal arts, but they tend to like diversity. They want people who apply with science and both liberal arts as ther strength. brown specifies its diversity specifically in what the students major in these days

georgetown: i am about 40 minutes away from georgetown, and let me tell you this. its full of pre-law and poly sci students there, because georgetown's program for poly sci is excellent. many poly sci students tend to prepare for prelaw and poly sci and international relations are both good majors to go into law school with (and i know this because i am an international relations pre-law major at johns hopkins)

boston uni: tends to pamper their business majors better than they do for boston college. boston college is varied, and thats all i know pretty much about those schools

Do you go to CU? (lol, don't tell me you're an aggie?) I forgot about their econ dept though, good catch. And recently CU has joined the ivy bandwagon of affordable education, although it doesn't help international/ current students at all ~



that's across the board for any major that has studio or lab but that should be ok, because there's absolutely nothing to do here outside of CU. except maybe cow-tipping.

USC's good academically, but the people here suck.

You're right down the street from KTown and JTown though, so that's a plus.

I go to NYU

NYU's known for business, law, journalism, english, film, theater.
basically the Stern school of business, College of Arts and Sciences, Tisch school of the arts, and I dont remember what the law school is named, but its pretty famous for grad students

I rather like the people here...

Being close to K-town is definitely nice

Ok.. I'm in Cornell for a conference right now
and if you are thinking of Cornell, VISIT THE CAMPUS FIRST!!
Literally it's in themiddle of NOWHERE!!

Thank you all for contributing!
Just anxiously waiting for results...:]

If you're talking about Boston University, they spend probably the most money on their business students. The building where the business students have classes is probably the nicest building on campus. Engineering is also quite rigorous-- my ex was a biomedical engineering major there (easily the hardest major at BU). I knew quite a few hospitality majors but I don't know if BU is really "famous" for that. Also... BU campus is really spread out. It can be annoying getting to class since most of the time if you live far from the main parts of campus, you'll probably have to hop on the train.

If you're talking about Boston College, I don't really think it's known for anything in particular. Most of my friends who went there were either business or humanities majors (English, philosophy, things like that). It's a private Catholic school with zero Greek life allowed on campus (don't know if this affects your decision at all). It's also located in a semi-suburban setting, though they have shuttle buses that bring you around to different parts of campus.

For Georgetown and many of the schools around DC, political science is the number one major along with business.

Yale is pretty much good for everything. I did a summer program there and had a blast and really loved my professors (I took English and philosophy classes), although New Haven is really really sucky (and parts of it are dangerous at night). It's known for it's law school, and med school, too.

instead of starting a new thread.

how about upenn ?

upenn, definitely known for its wharton business program, as well as its joint degree programs they have there: you can joint degree in business and science, business and liberal arts, and some others. but those are extremely competitive, only around 75 students get in each year for the jerome fisher program (the science and business)