MBA Family Values

Craig Mitchell knew exactly what he was looking for in a business school: a curriculum that would make possible a career change from accountant and business-software consultant to investment banking, a placement office that had good relationships with Wall Street firms, and a community where his wife and three daughters would be comfortable and welcome. After the 35-year-old Castle Rock (Colo.) resident narrowed his choices to seven or eight schools that would best serve his career, thoughts of his family's happiness whittled the list further. His final choice: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business

School. "Chapel Hill is an ideal environment for a family," says Mitchell. "You can live close to the B-school; the town is very family-oriented. And [then] when we got here, the families at the school completely embraced us."