Splitting hairs with what? Are you comparing it to PSU?
There is no hair to be split in that scenario. Notre Dame's business undergrad blows PSU out of the water.
It's funny because, as I've mentioned many times on here, my little brother is a business major at Penn State.... so I called him up to ask him about this BS/MBA program. Apparently, according to him, it's pretty legit. Butttttttttt....
He next asked me why I cared and I said a recruit was considering doing business at ND or PSU. He then said, and I quote,
and remember he's a business major at Penn State with a lot of school pride:
You would have to be a f*cking moron to go to Penn State over ND for business school. Seriously. You'd have to be bat sh*t crazy or high off your *** to not go to ND if all you care about is the business school. No matter what program you want to do here, ND offers something comparable or better.
Then after I said I was surprised at how harsh he was towards his school he said....
Listen, I love Penn State. It's a good school, you know that, whatever. But I literally know a business major who graduated last spring and ended working as a cashier at the ABC. I kid you not. He rung up my tequila over winter break. It was awkward as f*ck. How many of your college friends are working as cashiers? All things being equal, I bet just about everyone here would rather stamp ND on their diploma than Penn State when they finish up. Just like how you'd rather stamp Stanford on your degree than ND. I'm just being real.
Which I thought made a good point.... you can certainly get a really good education at Penn State. It's a top 50ish school. That's really good. We have more Penn State engineers at my current firm than any other. And a lot of them are a lot better than me at structural engineering. But a business degree from ND = a really good job/career in that field. Getting an average degree from an average business school when you can get a better degree from a much better business school just doesn't make sense.
And finally he left me with this nugget....
Also let's be serious... if you play freshman year, you're not going to complete the program anyways. At least not while on scholarship... or if you go to the NFL... just doesn't make sense.
So, bottom line is Alex is a smart kid. He has smart parents. Chances are, he makes the smart decision. If he cares about stuff besides the business school though, like being 3+ hours from home instead of ~10 hours from home... or he wants a big party-school feel and not the ND-school feel... he'd be totally justified picking Penn State. It's not like Penn State is "bad" by any stretch of the imagination and you can definitely get a good education with a solid degree there. With how thoughtful Alex is being after his decommit from OSU, I think whatever decision he makes will be well-reasoned and the best one for him. So good luck to him.
My 2 cents....
PS. My brother uses quite colorful, fratty college language.
