Any rankings of University of South Carolina Upstate or Coastal Carolina University Business Schools?
June 26, 2009 by MBA Tips and Reviews
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Can you answer KC’s question about MBA?:
I’m torn between these two schools. I’ve been accepted to both. I only have about year and a half left at either school to graduate with a business degree. I just want to know which one is ranked better, although I doubt either of them are actually large enough to be included in any serious rankings. Are there any companies that do rankings on smaller business colleges?
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I’m torn between these two schools. I’ve been accepted to both. I only have about year and a half left at either school to graduate with a business degree. I just want to know which one is ranked better, although I doubt either of them are actually large enough to be included in any serious rankings. Are there any companies that do rankings on smaller business colleges?
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MBA Feedback: US News ranks both. They aren’t in the same ranking group but reality is that they are both very similar. Until not that long ago, Coastal Carolina was also a campus of USC.
USC-Upstate #35 (tier 1) Bachelor’s colleges - south
Coastal Carolina tier 4 Liberal Arts colleges
Both are AACSB accredited. Both are SACS accredited. CCU also has an MBA, USC-U (UpU) is undergrad only.
Based on web hit (not a reliable measure of a school but interesting), CCU is 17 and UpU is 19. Both are NCAA Division I
CCU is nearly double the size of USC-Upstate; One thing that caught my eye is that USC-Upstate claims an enrollment of nearly 5000 but has an alumni base of 15,500 — something is wrong with one of those numbers or people don’t graduate at USC-U.
When looking at the “notable alumni” of CCU on the Wikipedia page it’s interesting that they are all athletes. That doesn’t bode well for business or academics.
I’d hazard that in a side-by-side ranking of the two that Coastal Carolina would come out slightly ahead of USC-Upstate. Neither is USC, Clemson, or College of Charleston though. Outside of their own local market area, you’d likely hear from people “you went where? Where’s that?” — that’s not a bad thing in itself but if you’re truly interested in ranked universities, neither of these is it.
I know both communities very well. Myrtle Beach is a much more fun place to live. ?
MBA Feedback: KC, The best method to find out info is to contact a student. You can start looking for contact information for South Carolina colleges here. The students always to know what’s going on better than outsiders since they get to experience the classes and the lifestyle.