US News & World Report magazine ranks the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School the best undergraduate business college in the country. Approximately 30% of its students graduate with a dual degree. Within the business school, students can focus its flexible curriculum to focus on one of two of 20 concentrations, including Management, Statistics, and Business and Public Policy. The Wharton School encourages students to take on a second concentration or pursue a dual degree to foster interdisciplinary scholarship. Students must compete all required core courses, including Management 100, taken during the freshman year. Students must complete the senior project, where groups of 10 plan and execute a community service project for a Philadelphia nonprofit. The Office of Admissions sets no minimum GPA or SAT requirement; but out of an average of 5,500 applications, Wharton admits only 500 students.
Wharton School of Business
University of Pennsylvania
Office of Undergraduate Admissions
1 College Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-7507
wharton.upenn.edu
Founded in 1914, the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) continues to offer a management science bachelor's degree that pairs quantitative with qualitative methods. Students combine probalisitc analysis and statistical inference with psychology and organizational behavior to manage complex business problems. Students can choose from one of four concentrations in Finance, Information Technologies, Marketing Science or Operations Research. All Sloan undergraduates much complete the 17 General Institute Requirements (GIR) that all MIT students do. Some Sloan core courses fulfill the GIRs. Sloan students can double major with any other MIT major. All MIT students spend their freshmen year undeclared taking GIR classes including the Communication Requirement. MIT's Office of Admissions judges applications individually but admittance is competitive. As of 2009, 96% of those admitted were in the top 10% of their high school class, 64% scored a 700 or more on the Critical Reading SAT I section and 89% scored a 700 or more on the Math SAT I section.
The MIT Sloan School of Management
50 Memorial Dr.
Cambridge, MA 02142
617-253-2659
mitsloan.mit.edu
Undergraduates in The University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business fulfill lower and upper level core requirements as well as general education requirements in the liberal arts. Students can take up to one third but none of the 32 semester units of upper division business classes pass/fail. Students who take at least 43 semester units for a letter grade and maintain a 3.650 GPA in business courses with a 3.721 overall GPA can graduate with honors. Any business classes taken during a study abroad program can count. To graduate, Haas undergraduates must take all core business courses at Berkeley, complete at least 24 of their final 30 credits as seniors in residence at Berkeley over two semesters (or more) and maintain at least a 2.0 GPA. Berkeley undergraduates can apply to become Haas students after they have completed the following with a grade of at least a C-: Undergraduate Business Administration, Calculus, Economics and Statistics as well as the general Literature/Writing and English/Reading and composition requirements. Admittance is highly competitive. As of 2009, the average GPA for Berkeley students admitted was 3.69 and for transfer students it was 3.88.
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
2220 Piedmont Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94720
510-642-4735
haas.berkeley.edu