<p>Besides Wharton and Stern, which other colleges provide exceptional finance majors for undergrad business? Also, if anyone found a site for this, rankings, surveys, or studies of some kind?</p>
<p>Georgetown's pretty great for it, especially with the various opportunities(especially the completely student run Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union, which has $12 million in assets, and pretty much the example for student run credit unions in the country).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.guasfcu.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.guasfcu.com/</a></p>
<p>"Also, if anyone found a site for this, rankings, surveys, or studies of some kind?"</p>
<p>If you're going to be a finance major, the only ranking you should be concerned about is starting salary.</p>
<p>that's not true. he may want to go to grad school but wants a finance background</p>
<p>Very true, jwblue, and I know you're a little biased towards Stern. But which college's finance major students come out with the highest starting salaries?</p>
<p>Here's the US News 2005 rankings for undergrad. finance. They were posted on the old college discussion forum: </p>
<ol>
<li>University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) </li>
<li>New York University (Stern) </li>
<li>University of Michigan–Ann Arbor * </li>
<li>University of California–Berkeley (Haas) * </li>
<li>Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (Sloan) </li>
<li>University of Texas–Austin (McCombs) * </li>
<li>Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley) *
Ohio State University–Columbus (Fisher) * </li>
<li>U. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) * </li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
University of Virginia (McIntire) * </li>
<li>Univ. of Southern California (Marshall) </li>
<li>University of Florida (Warrington) *
Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison * </li>
<li>University of Washington * </li>
<li>U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign * </li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) </li>
<li>Boston College (Carroll)
Univ. of Maryland–College Park (Smith) *
University of Notre Dame (IN) </li>
<li>Pennsylvania State U.–University Park (Smeal) *
Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN)*
Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson) *</li>
</ol>
<p>Out of the top 10, the University of Texas and Indiana University are two universities that kind of stand out as being relatively easier to get into, while their overall business school and finance program are pretty good.</p>
<p>I've become more than skeptical of people who either love or attend a certain university giving advice. JasonHoya may be correct about how good the finance department at GU is, but the fact he obviously will apply/applied/was accepted/attends GU makes me skeptical of him having a non-biased opinion</p>
<p>"he may want to go to grad school but wants a finance background"</p>
<p>True, but then he'd more suited to an econ. major.</p>
<p>true, econ is easier, but for corporate law it would be very good.</p>
<p>yes, I'm a freshman at Georgetown, however I'm not even in the business school. Also, if the first poster didn't ask for schools besides Wharton, Stern, etc., I would've recommended Wharton. If you want the best undergrad finance experience, then Wharton is the best choice. However, many people overlook McDonough School of Business at Georgetown, and I feel that it's necessary to bring it up.</p>
<p>So once again, I do recommend MSB to the poster. It's also understood that although MSB isn't highly ranked(just outside the top 25 i think), I have heard from other posters(including some from Wharton) that MSB is very highly regarded in investment banking, and is heavily recruited at. I do believe that this is the case, b/c I've been applying for some IT internships at some top i-banks(Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, etc.), and in their list of colleges that they visit, Georgetown is usually one of the 12-25 or so. </p>
<p>Interning at the Georgetown Federal Credit Union is an extremely unique opportunity that simply can't be found at the vast majority of business schools(and you don't even need to be in the B school to intern). It's a multi million dollar company, and is completely student run.</p>
<p>I also invite you to look at my post on the Georgetown boards about the McDonough School of Business.</p>
<p>If I want to major finance during college (I'm considering to apply Wharton next year), what kind of job should I get during high school to make my resume more outstanding? Or is there any place you recommend to work at?</p>
<p>Do u have a bigger advantage of finding a high-paying job in ibanking with a finance major than with an economics major? Right now, I don't really have a concrete idea of what I'm going to do except that I want to work on Wall Street in an ibank since I'm exceptionally good at math and poker, lol. Also, is economics more theory than calculation? Finally, if u guys think economics is a suitable major, what are the top schools for this?</p>
<p>NJChino,</p>
<p>There is absolutely no difference. You get hired for a job, and whatever your background if you get the job, you got the job. Ibanks don't hire for "programs", they hire on overall school reputation. Basically when their clients come they want to see that the employees went to the top schools. So the ranking of econ departments is moot. IF you want to be a banker go to a school that is a banking feeder: In my personal opinion (as an MBA at a top 5 school and arguably one of the top three in finance) to be a banker:</p>
<ol>
<li>Any Ivy, top LAC (yup they love AWS), MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, etc or top 5 Undergrad Business school (Stern, UM, Wharton, MIT, Berkeley)</li>
<li>The second tier of the top 25 Universities, the top 25 LACs, and the rest of the business schools all in decending order.</li>
<li>There is no 3</li>
</ol>
<p>If you want to be a banker go to the top school you like the best. They hire out of all of them. Would I go to Indiana over Brown because it has a better finance ranking? No way. If it sounds prestigious to you, it sounds prestigious to them too.</p>
<p>I, for the most part agree with Slipper. For i-banking, there are the ivies, top lacs, non-ivys like NYU, U of Chicago, Duke..and of course the top west coast schools like Stanford and Berkeley. These schools constitute the major feeders to investment banks. Of course its very possible to get these jobs from other schools, but it will likely be harder, and there will be less room for error (ie you better have amazing grades). </p>
<p>You don't have to major in finance, or even econ. to a banker. However, if you choose to major in something else, you'll really to show why you want to be a banker and also prove that you have a strong grasp of financial concepts notwithstanding your undergrad major. Initially, finance majors will be ahead of the curve (especially those from Stern and Wharton), but if you have the grades, do your research, and can show you have what it takes for wall st., you'll be fine regardless of your major.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice guys.</p>
<p>you learn almost everything you need to know once you start the job. its nice to have a relevant background but really not as much of an advantage as youd think. as long as you deal with some sort of math/quantitative related field you should be fine... and even that isnt needed</p>
<p>econ is more theory and math than finance, which is more of a combination of econ and business. </p>
<p>a prestigous college name is basically needed to get into ibanking... so wherever you want to go, make sure it sounds good</p>
<p>i highly recommend you read Liar's Poker and Monkey Business : Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle if you are even thinking about wallstreet... just get them from the library</p>
<p>"econ is more theory and math than finance, which is more of a combination of econ and business. "</p>
<p>Really, in what universe? As an econ/finance major, I can assure you that what you just said is absolutely beyond absurd.</p>
<p>If you wanted to do I-Banking.. how would you rank the following... UVA, UNC, WUSTL, Cornell, and Northwestern...</p>
<p>I'm more interested in the first three since I'd rather major in finance than economics...</p>
<p>"If you wanted to do I-Banking.. how would you rank the following... UVA, UNC, WUSTL, Cornell, and Northwestern"</p>
<p>Northwestern
Cornell
UVA
UNC=WUSTL</p>
<p>I agree except I might put Cornell tied with Northwestern.</p>