Anyone know anyone who attended WVU?

[Linusvanp3lt]

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.

UI MBA here. The full time MBA is no longer offered at Iowa and may explain the ranking. The intricacies of that decision are for another day.

MBA in general, I'd be hesitant to go anywhere too far off beaten path. If you do, you'll have to go to career fairs to meet recruiters vs. them coming to you. Most MBA recruiting is national, vs undergrad recruiting is regional.

 

[Psyclone]

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.

That's only one of the factors. But most of the other factors are worse. Some of them measure the quality of students admitted. That says nothing about the quality of education. Schools like Iowa State are automatically disadvantaged because admission standards allow more high school students an opportunity.

 

[Psyclone]

I worked with an engineer from WVU. He was a good guy. Maybe a little weird but that can be said of many engineers.