The University of Rochester is located in Rochester, New York. Rochester offers one of the finest academic programs in finance and accounting the United States. It is easily the equal of most of the elite schools in these fields and has trained many of the professors at the elite/ultra elite schools. It has an impressive list of recruiters including some of the best recognized firms such as GS, ML, LB, and JPM.

Rochester, New York is the 50th largest economic area in the US. Nearby Buffalo is the 53rd largest economic area.


However, Rochester seems to suffer from some employment issues. The percentage employed at graduation has generally been unimpressive even when the economy is booming. Nonetheless, impressive jobs appear to be available to high performers.

Rochester has long seemed to be on the verge of breaking out into the higher clusters but for a variety of reasons has yet to do so. For those students looking for an outstanding academic school at a relatively cheap "admissions price" Rochester remains an excellent opportunity.

Note that Rochester admits students for both September and January.

Academic Year: Quarter

The first quarter is prescribed.
Electives begin in the second quarter.

There are 14 concentrations available including Corporate Accounting and Finance.

"Finance (FIN)
(5 courses)
The Simon School is best known for its research and scholarship in the area of finance. This concentration provides students with state-of-the-art techniques for financial analysis. Students learn to formulate and solve important corporate-finance problems and to obtain information from the many databases on financial markets."

The Simon School of Business is incredibly strong in these areas. The relatively new Dean, Mark Zupan, is really making plans for this school. It has an impressive research (or intellectual capital) score from BusinessWeek - 18.

The Simon school also ranks quite high on the international rankings like the Financial Times of London, so if you want to go international finance this is the way to go.

Dean Zupan is also increasing the value of the alumni networks.

From what I was told by a recruiter the COL is also fairly low compared to New York City.

If you are interested in Finance this is the way to go.

I am applying in this January for next year.

Employment Stats

http://www.ssb.rochester.edu/corporate/ ... stats.aspx

Executives Bios

Chairman/CEO/President
http://www.goodyear.com/corporate/bios/keegan.html


http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier. ... 8a802324c6

http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier. ... 8a80234810

Employment

BW04 lists Rochester as having 71% employment at graduation- higher than many Near Elite/Trans Elites including Texas, UNC, USC, Vanderbilt, Maryland, Notre Dame, and Washington Olin. This is also better than UVA, tied with Cornell, and just below Yale.

BW02 lists Rochester as having 59% employment at grad- this was a less impressive showing than two year later but still better than Vanderbilt, Georgetown, and Washington Olin and just behind USC and Emory.

FT05 lists employment at 3 months of 89%. This employment value exceeds that of many of the Near Elite/Trans Elite/Elite schools including Cornell, USC, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Texas, Notre Dame, and Michigan.

Hi,

Can anyone, here, inform me about the winter and spring session of Simon school of business, Rochester university? I am especially concerned with the job opportunities as I have read simon doesn't provide internship during those sessions.

One more thing, how the programme at york university, canada is??

Hi,
I have applied to simon...got my interview scheduled on 21st jan...i have recently come to know tht rochester is one of the USA's maximum crime rate city? ne thoughts on same...

thanks
hellojp

Hjort,

Do you know what is Simon's specialities? I heard it is a good school for finance/accounting, but am not sure.

Hi Hjort

I just recently got admitted to Simon FT for fall 2007 with a partial scholarship. I am currently waiting on UCI FT, USC part time and UT Austin FT. I plan to work in California after my MBA .. what are the job prospects like for Simon outside the NY area? Also I am not particularly looking at Finance or Accounting, but rather general management and perhaps consulting. How does Simon measure up in these disciplines?

I appreciate any insight.. thank you in advance!

Here's something I do not understand.

For their class of 2005, 23.5%-25.5% of students went into Investment Banking.
http://www.simon.rochester.edu/pdf/placementstat05.pdf

For their class of 2006, 5.9%-6.9% went into Investment Banking.
http://www.simon.rochester.edu/pdf/placementstat06.pdf

How do you explain the massive drop in a single year? Management and Marketing had exactly the same percentages but everything else seems remarkably different...