SO you want to study business, do you?
Well what exactly is business?
Wikipedia does a nice break down of the field and the collegeboard offers a more specific look at the major in US college while the British Council outlines the UK approach in their Fact Sheet. As a fan of the new media, I went looking for information from other sources. First up is a YouTube video called “Major in a Minute from Georgia State University”
You tube has several Business playlists which you can weed through to find video such as:
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Future business leaders should get in the habit of reading now:
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Podcasts worth listening to:
Many readers have long commutes–why not put those commutes to work listening to some of the best podcasts out there:
- o Harvard Business Ideas podcast
- o NPR Business story of the day
- o University channel
- • watch the videos:
Courses
Got a bit more time? Want to really test drive a university? Try these–many more found on itunes U
- • Yale University Business lectures
- • Stanford University Business leaders
- • UC Berkeley
- • Loyola Marymount University International Business
- • UCTV Business lectures
- • Carnegie Mellon Entrepreneurship course
And who has the best business programs?
As many readers of this blog know, I am rather cynical of rankings given how easily they can be gamed and manipulated and even more importantly do they even use criteria important to you? So you should, before you click below, as what exactly are you looking for in a B school? What woudl make it best for you?
Now I present data sources which can be helpful:
- Business week ranks undergraduate programs
- The Princeton Review has a guide for Graduate schools as does Forbes.
- Enterpreneur magazine publishes the top schools for enterpreneurs.
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Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 Feeder Schools
USnews, the grand-daddy in rankings, offers a comprehensive undergrad program ranking and has a variety of speciality program rankings:
From the UK, check out vairous league tables such as
- Good Guide Business studies. and accounting. Be sure to cross reference with the Guardian’s own league tables. they are different!
- Unistats compiles and presents all the stats from student surveys.
