<p>Wharton or Harvard????? [Business-Specific Education or Economics Education]
Thank you for all inputs!!</p>
<p>Wharton .</p>
<p>Wharton...</p>
<p>Wharton! Harvard doesn't even have an undergrad business school...only grad. Economics just doesn't compare.
Other Ivy with a UG b-school - Cornell. That's it.</p>
<p>Thanks for the information. How about the strength of the alumni clubs. Penn/Wharton Club versus Harvard Club???</p>
<p>Wharton, Sloan (MIT), Haas (Berkeley) for UG biz</p>
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Economics just doesn't compare.
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<p>That's not true. In fact, I'd heard people said "business" at the undergrad level is mostly a joke if the school is not one of the top ones.</p>
<p>don't forget michigan, virginia and Texas honors.....</p>
<p>Both alumni clubs do very well around the world. At least in the business field, they are the best of the best.</p>
<p>^ Plus, Wharton grads get the advantage of having both a Wharton alumni club AND a Penn alumni club in most major cities.</p>
<p>UPenn, Cornell, UCB, NYU, UT, UM, MIT, UVA... maybe Carnegie Mellon, USC, SMU, University of Washington, Brigham Young, Texas Christian University, University of Miami, and Michigan State too...</p>
<p>Notre Dame Mendoza is the #3 ranked undergrad program by BusinessWeek...</p>
<p>Now, tell me if I'm wrong, but, uh...</p>
<p>Economics =/= business.</p>
<p>UPenn (Wharton) > All other B-schools (academically, for sure), regardless of rankings.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone!!!</p>
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Notre Dame Mendoza is the #3 ranked undergrad program by BusinessWeek...
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<p>BW is a joke, Mendoza is not a top program.</p>
<p>How can Mendoza be a joke? It has a quite a few football players enrolled in it. Ask Charlie Weiss. Notre Dame is at a disadvantage because it only accepts the best into their schools. So it must be among the top ten.</p>
<p>^^^ Sarcasm I hope?</p>
<p>Guilty as charged.</p>
<p>My experience (for elite banking/ consulting):</p>
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<li>Harvard, Wharton, Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford, MIT, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia</li>
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<p>It's undergraduate business. Unless you're interested in something as specialized as accounting, then economics at a top school will serve you just as well as a business degree. Wharton and MIT do have great programs though. After those two, there's Cal, Michigan and a laundry list of schools that could claim a spot in the top 10. If you want a traditional business program, look for a school accredited by the AACSB.</p>