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."

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Since this forum has already discussed on the graduate programs esp MBA and MSF offered by the Univ of ROC- I was wondering if some one could share some info on MS in Marketing too.

I am trying to gather information on the prog. job placements and other related details.

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There are a couple of things I'm not really sure about yet with this school (in particular, which functions are being hired for by investment banks on campus), but after having done some research (speaking to some international bankers - Rochester is associated with a couple of finance gurus and being solid with economics) and looking at what Mark Zupan is doing for the school, I'm pretty sure I'll apply next year. It seems that the quality of education you get there is likely to be quite high - if anyone can let me know if recruiters are aware of it, I'd appreciate some insight.

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Any idea about the average pay for passouts in 2011?

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If anyone got the admit, pls post. Have few queries...
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I just started a PMBA program there this past Fall in Finance. What do you need ?

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Originally posted by MarketingProf on 26 Dec 2012, 15:12.
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Just a quick update on the MBA and MS programs at the University of Rochester (Simon):
- Finance is still the area that attracts most candidates, both in the MBA and MSF. These is due to the good rankings in this area, but also because two academic journals are published there; the school also has a MS in finance program located in New York City.
- Marketing is becoming more specialized in Brand Management and Pricing for MBA; For the MS in Marketing, the main focus is on Marketing Research or Consumer Analytics; the school hired recently a professor from Chicago (Ron Goetler) and a professor from Duke (Paul Ellickson).
- Consulting is getting a lot of traction lately, with a recently formed student group, and related to business analytics, which the school is strong on.

Finally, the Simon School is starting a one-year MBA program in 2013 for students with more experience, so an additional option.

Good luck everyone!

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This brochure has a lot information about the Simon school:

https://issuu.com/simongraduateschoolofbusiness/docs/mba-viewbook-july-2012?mode=embed&layout=https://skin.issuu.com/v/dark/layout.xml&showFlipBtn=true

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What does everyone think of the new webpage for the marketing group at Simon:
https://www.simon.rochester.edu/academic-groups/marketing/index.aspx

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