<p>I'm thinking about possibly majoring in Economics and Math, or maybe Finance and Math, or some combination of those three. I know the big business schools have the best finance majors, but which schools have the best economics and math majors?</p>
<p>Economics and Math: UChicago, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton.</p>
<p>Finance and Math: MIT-Sloan, Berkeley-Haas, NYU-Stern.</p>
<p>If you want Econ, Finance and Math, 7 schools come to mind:</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Massachusetts Instutitute of Technology
New York University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>If you are willing to overlook Finance, add the following schools to your list:
Brown University
Columbia University
Duke University
Harvard University
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago
University of Rochester</p>
<p>If your interest is quantitative finance, Princeton offered a program in Financial Engineering that looked pretty interesting to me.</p>
<p>Don't forget to look at the LACs...Williams is well known and highly regarded in econ and math.</p>
<p>Well, I don't know what's the "best" but I graduated with a Math/Econ degree at UCLA. It's interdepartmental, so not a double major. You can look into that too.</p>
<p>I forgot to add a few:</p>
<p>University of California-Los Angeles
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>And some excellent LACs:
Amherst College
Bowdoin College
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Colgate College
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Grinnell College
Pomona College
Swarthmore College
Vassar College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>I'd say Harvard and Princeton would be your best bets</p>
<p>Oberlin and Ohio Wesleyan have very strong economics and math departments. Oberlin's department is more research oriented whereas Wesleyan's is more finance and business-oriented. If he wants to pursue an academic career he may be better off in a small LAC but where profs are very active in research. This describes Oberlin. If he wants to get an MBA, then Ohio Wesleyan's strong EMAN program will suit him better.</p>
<p>I think most top schools have both great econ programs and math programs, but don't forget Williams Smarthmore and Amherst and other liberal arts colleges</p>
<p>I like Alex's list.</p>
<p>Columbia has an Operations Research/Financial Engineering, like Pton, which sounds neat</p>