Business school, in particular? Friend is considering their master of finance pgm but doesn't know anyone there. Would like to connect with someone who's familiar with the program.
Anyone know anyone who attended WVU?
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My MIL went to law school there... long time ago now, though.
My wife's second cousin is an undergraduate there now, but not in the B-School.
My wife's second cousin is an undergraduate there now, but not in the B-School.
US News ranks ISU #53 in graduate programs in business. UI is unranked (that's hard to believe; in general UI has very strong graduate and professional programs). WVU is unranked and not an AAU member. WVU's program probably is fine if the student wants to stay in or around West Virginia after completing the degree as is the case with many graduate programs in state "flagship" universities but if the person wants to move to another region of the country, another program might be advisable. I'd recommend caution but the program might be satisfactory.
When it comes to the rankings I consider them to be US Fake News. I don't trust any of the rankings. For instance, a WVU degree has less value in Iowa than in West Virginia. Similarly, a degree from EIU has less value in West Virginia than Iowa.
I know one person who went to WVU for undergrad; he's a lawyer. He's also 100% West Virginia. Exactly what you would expect.
I know quite a few Appalachian area lawyers. It's a strange personality contradiction. One of them had male pattern baldness, a scraggly ponytail that went down his back about six inches, and wore suits that appear to have come from Goodwill. I'm not exactly Captain Fashion but I do know not to wear what he wore.
All of them were super nice people. Their IQs would fluctuate between 70 and 140. On a daily basis.
I know quite a few Appalachian area lawyers. It's a strange personality contradiction. One of them had male pattern baldness, a scraggly ponytail that went down his back about six inches, and wore suits that appear to have come from Goodwill. I'm not exactly Captain Fashion but I do know not to wear what he wore.
All of them were super nice people. Their IQs would fluctuate between 70 and 140. On a daily basis.
The chair of the civil engineering department at ISU explained to me how the US News rankings work and it eliminated any faith I had in them. Basically, the poll all the schools on the list and ask them to rank all other programs. There's a huge similarity bias built in. Someone in the engineering department at Cal Poly probably has no idea how good or bad the graduate program is at Iowa State. So, either they don't rank them at all, or they put them really far down the list, knowing nothing about the program.
FIFY Familiarity bias, not similarity bias.
I concur that these are glorified beauty contests with judges who may have never ever looked at most of the contestants. It make the coaches' football poll seem scientific!
I know two engineers at work who went to WVU and graduated probably within the last 5 or so years. Both are pretty good engineers.
Know a guy from high school that went to WVU and walked on the football team (older brother was playing on scholarship which probably helped). He went to the business school and now he is a Christian country singer trying to make it big in Nashville. He's got thousands of followers on all the social media sites so I'm assuming he's doing alright.
west virginia gets a bad wrap. it struggles but iowa would too if say a few (coal company executives) were able to sap 8 trillion dollars of natural resources (coal) from it and left the majority of people VERY worse off (pollution, general eco decline). for years the economy was coal over everything, pushing workers to become addicted to drugs and alcohol to keep the machine going. well the machine has stopped but the addiction is still there.
