Baruch College

Nah, looking for human insight of those who might have experience or advice.

Baruch…Baruch…Baruch is on fire. We don’t need the money let the mfer burn…

Never heard of it.

If he sticks with finance tell him to take as much accounting as possible. An accounting degree can transition to finance fairly easily but a finance degree can’t jump into an accounting position. I have a finance degree. Also, begin networking and following people in positions he wants on LinkedIn.

Acceptance Rate of 47% (2024)

Part of the NYC City College system, located in the Flatiron District

Is he from New York? Tuition, even out of state, is pretty reasonable, but you are paying high room and board costs. If he wants to be in NYC, seems like a fine choice. It’s the equivalent of attending a flagship state school in the South in terms of academic prestige.

Lived in NYC and worked in finance, accounting and consulting there. Baruch is a solid school with lots of successful alumni that I personally know.

A bit harder to break into investment banking but anything else will be completely open to him.

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Baruch College

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You sure made a mess spelling Boston College...

My only experience with Baruch is that Big 4 accounting programs seemed to target it for the NY offices. Seemed to be respected in that discipline. Otherwise, it will have little to no brand recognition nationally and is an odd choice for someone coming from California unless some other driving factors.

Just to clarify, while Baruch is a solid school there are definitely much better schools to target than Baruch if he wants to work in Finance.

This list is pretty accurate for a list of Target Investment Banking Schools. It has Baruch as 34th. LINK

Target Schools
1. University of Pennsylvania
2. Georgetown University
3. Harvard University
4. Columbia University
5. New York University
6. Cornell University
7. University of Notre Dame
8. University of Michigan
9. Yale University
10. The University of Texas at Austin
11. Princeton University
12. University of Chicago
13. University of California, Berkeley
14. Duke University
15. University of Virginia

Semi-Target Schools
16. University of Southern California
17. Dartmouth College
18. Brigham Young University
19. Stanford University
20. Southern Methodist University
21. Northwestern University
22. Indiana University
23. Boston College
24. Emory University
25. Brown University
26. University of California, Los Angeles
27. Western University
28. Vanderbilt University
29. Rice University
30. UNC Chapel Hill

Lower Semi-Target Schools
31. Middlebury College
32. Claremont McKenna College
33. Penn State University
34. Baruch College
35. Williams College
36. Fordham University
37. Washington University in St. Louis
38. Wake Forest University
39. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
40. Amherst College
41. University of Georgia
42. Texas A&M University
43. National University of Singapore
44. University of Florida
45. Boston University
46. Carnegie Mellon University
47. University of Wisconsin-Madison
48. Colgate University
49. The University of Hong Kong
50. Singapore Management University
51. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
52. The Johns Hopkins University
53. Queen's University
54. University of Miami
55. McGill University
56. Texas Christian University
57. Villanova University
58. HKUST
59. Arizona State University
60. Georgia Institute of Technology