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FT 2005 ranks Rochester #27 worldwide just below UCLA and Cornell and higher than Carnegie Mellon and USC. FT 2001 ranked Rochester #29 above USC (Marshall) and Oxford.

EIU 2004 places Rochester #61 worldwide- near Cambridge, Wake Forest, and Manchester. EIU 2003 placed Rochester #46 worldwide- above Purdue and Indiana.

BW 1996 ranked Rochester just above Yale and just below Texas-Austin. BW 1988 ranked Rochester just below Yale but (implicitly) above USC and Texas-Austin. BW 1990 ranked Rochester just below UC Berkeley and Texas-Austin. BW 2000 ranked Rochester just below Yale and Indiana and above USC and Emory.
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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.
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Value Considerations

ETO: 99k

https://www.simon.rochester.edu/programs ... #financial

FT2005 Value For Money: #83, better than Georgetown, but outranked by most of the Near Elites
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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??
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As I recall, Rochester admits students FT students for the Fall and Winter (January) only. I believe that it is still possible to have an internship in the summer if a student is willing to take a heavier courseload in the other quarters (January admits have six potential quarters to complete work Winter1, Spring1, Summer, Fall2, Winter2, and Spring2).

For info on York please see the following:
https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=13628
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As I recall, Rochester admits students FT students for the Fall and Winter (January) only. I believe that it is still possible to have an internship in the summer if a student is willing to take a heavier courseload in the other quarters (January admits have six potential quarters to complete work Winter1, Spring1, Summer, Fall2, Winter2, and Spring2).

For info on York please see the following:
https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=13628


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...

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The city of Rochester has a relatively high crime rate but then again many major universities are located near high crime cities.

For example, East Palo Alto (CA) is located just a few miles from Stanford and has a murder rate almost double that of Rochester.

Washington DC, home of Georgetown, has a murder rate about 50% higher than that of Rochester and an aggravated assault rate about twice as high.

Philadelphia of Wharton fame has a higher crime rate than Rochester, NY for most forms of violent crime (including a slightly higher murder rate, and higher rates for rape, robbery and assault).

Washington University is located in what is perhaps the highest crime major city in the US, with a murder rate about 50% higher and an aggravated assault rate close to 4 times as great as that of Rochester.

Oakland borders Berkeley, CA and has a slightly lower murder rate than Rochester but a forcible rape and aggravated asslt rate more than 50% higher.
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The city of Rochester has a relatively high crime rate but then again many major universities are located near high crime cities.

For example, East Palo Alto (CA) is located just a few miles from Stanford and has a murder rate almost double that of Rochester.

Washington DC, home of Georgetown, has a murder rate about 50% higher than that of Rochester and an aggravated assault rate about twice as high.

Philadelphia of Wharton fame has a higher crime rate than Rochester, NY for most forms of violent crime (including a slightly higher murder rate, and higher rates for rape, robbery and assault).

Washington University is located in what is perhaps the highest crime major city in the US, with a murder rate about 50% higher and an aggravated assault rate close to 4 times as great as that of Rochester.

Oakland borders Berkeley, CA and has a slightly lower murder rate than Rochester but a forcible rape and aggravated asslt rate more than 50% higher.


Hjort,

Do you know what is Simon's specialities? I heard it is a good school for finance/accounting, but am not sure.
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Yes, it is particularly well known for finance, accounting, and economics.
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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!
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The best source of information would be to contact Career Services at Simon to see what type of placement and alumni network they have in these fields in the Western US. GM/Consulting and California do not really play to Rochester's generally regarded strength of Fin/Acctg and the US Northeast.
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Here's something I do not understand.

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

For their class of 2006, 5.9%-6.9% went into Investment Banking.
https://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...
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