<p>title says it all</p>
<p>stern hands down no questions asked =) i doubt u can do much better.</p>
<p>does uchicago even offer a finance major?</p>
<p>I doubt it, but which school will help you in the long run obtain a financial career?</p>
<p>One thing's for sure: It will be tough to get a good GPA from either of those schools. If you're going to be an econ major at Chicago (without a doubt the best in the nation) or a finance major at Stern, be prepared to work. Of course I'm assuming you already know this :)</p>
<p>I say geographically, Stern has the edge for Wall Street. UChicago kids probably want to stay in Chicago. I guess Chicago is still a target school, especially for more quantitative positions like S&T. So it might depend on what kind of finance you're going for. If you want an IB job in NYC, I say Stern. But derivatives trader? UChicago.</p>
<p>In this case, you definitely have to pick based on fit because Chicago econ and Stern finance can lead to the same things. They're both in great cities. I don't know too much about UChicago's campus. NYU doesn't really have one. Chicago tends to have a more intellectual/liberal-artsy feel, or so they say. Stern is more pre-professional. Etc.</p>
<p>In general, Stern.</p>
<p>For straight up finance, Stern has the edge, but honestly that doesn't even matter for wall street recruiting.</p>
<p>A very large portion of analyst classes in IB for example don't even have a business related degree and they learn the same things in a few months of training that stern finance majors took 4 years and over 100k to learn.</p>
<p>Chicago is a much better school than NYU, hands down, and gets way better recruiting than. If you want to major in finance(which I think is silly but fine) then go to Stern, but if you're only doing it for the job opportunities you would be WAY better off at UChicago.</p>
<p>stoneimmaculate, are you saying that job placement is better at Uchicago than NYU in undergrad business? oh wow, you definitely need to go on decaf lol. In terms of job placement (wallstreet and others) NYU is the top. It offers full expore to bulge-bracket investment banks, major hedge funds, consulting firms. Where else can you have an internship at wallstreet during the school year?</p>
<p>I do not know of major hedge funds that recruit at NYU. Chicago would be best if you wanted to go into trading (prop, S&T, hedge funds etc). An amazing number of quants (and academics who taught those quants) are from Chicago. Chicago is a trading town and the opportunities there are great. HFs actually have a big presence at Chicago. Citadel, DE Shaw and SAC recruit Chicago grads. The same can't be said for NYU. Every BB, and major MC has a presence at Chicago. The absolute numbers might be greater at NYU but on a per capita basis, Chicago probably does as good if not better (once you count in trading presence) than NYU. </p>
<p>I suggest everyone take a look at that list: <a href="http://caps.uchicago.edu/recruiters/0506_recruiters.html%5B/url%5D">http://caps.uchicago.edu/recruiters/0506_recruiters.html</a></p>
<p>If you want to do M&A choose from either. For trading/IM etc Chicago would be better.</p>
<p>Borth are good choices. Uchicago is not in the center of the city though, it does actually have its own campus with pretty, gothic architecture. I have friends that go to both, and while they are both cut-throat, chicago seems way more intense (in terms of studying all day and night) while you can definately get more of a work/life/social balance at stern. </p>
<p>Stern has the edge on internships and being in the center of nyc, but it lacks a campus and "a real college experience".</p>
<p>All in All, either school can lead to the same career. Also consider where you would like to live after graduation.</p>
<p>Chicago Economics is better than Finance at Stern in my opinion.</p>
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stoneimmaculate, are you saying that job placement is better at Uchicago than NYU in undergrad business? oh wow, you definitely need to go on decaf lol. In terms of job placement (wallstreet and others) NYU is the top. It offers full expore to bulge-bracket investment banks, major hedge funds, consulting firms. Where else can you have an internship at wallstreet during the school year?
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<p>no, no, no, no.</p>
<p>Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Wharton(of course), Columbia, MIT(more quant. positions), Duke, Dartmouth, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Swat and even UChicago on a smaller scale than the others place better than NYU into Wall street jobs and even then top publics and the better private schools(overall) than NYU place just as well if not better.</p>
<p>The only good thing Stern has going for it is NYC, and it can't be THAT important when of the dozen or so schools I mentioned that place better, only one is in the city.</p>
<p>and to your last question, Plenty of kids at non targets get IB internships during the school year, it may not be in NYC but it is an internship all the same.</p>
<p>its nice to see amaranth on that list</p>
<p>oh, so you are not only ignorant but also pretty stupid. Please lets get some sense and judgment into this topic. Alexandre, where are you? Hit them again with the on-campus recruiting table.
"The only thing Stern has going for it is NYC?" oh my god, please get to know more about the school that your bashing. It would really help your image...you know, boost it up from what others think- an ignorant idiot.
Do you actually have any stats to back up your list?</p>
<p>Let me elaborate on Stern:
-High calibre faculty
-Great resources
-Huge funding
-Close Proximity to Wallstreet aims students for impressive jobs
-Finance department is stellar
-International Business department is stellar as well
-Accounting, Management and other departments are not lacking either
-Great Networking options
-Impressive Alumni connections
-Amazing International Study opportunities (if i daresy, one of the best in the US)
-Location in NYC helps students to grow in all dimensions
-Stern's name holds alot of respect and value in the job market
-NYU's prestige and name gives its students exposure to great graduate schools as well
In a nutshell, this is "what Stern has going for it". Please do some research beforehand and avoid making ignorant comments. Thanks =)</p>
<p>swat > stern for wallstreet? lol</p>
<p>canadian, the exact same thing could be said for chicago</p>
<p>For grad level, most will put chicago and columbia ahead of stern in finance. </p>
<p>NYC is a top financial center, but so it chicago and toronto.</p>
<p>i'm glad you brought up toronto. i've been thinking of applying to utoronto, bc. i hold canadian citizenship thus drastically reducing tuition costs to like state school prices. how does utoronto stack up against uchicago and stern?</p>
<p>It's probably a good choice if you want to work in Toronto.</p>
<p>Canadian, do you realize that there are probably a dozen other schools that have all of those things as well and many have so much more.</p>
<p>Stern is not a stellar school, there are over a dozen that would be better as far as opportunities on Wall street and many more that would give you the same opportunities.</p>
<p>The top LAC's may be a stretch, I admit, but they do get excellent recruitment/placement for the size of their class which may be on par if not better than that of Stern. The point I was making was that there are MANY schools that are better than Stern for wall street recruitment.</p>
<p>The fact that anyone would call me an "ignorant idiot" (redundant isn't it?) because I disagree that Stern isn't the best school ever for wall street is amusing.</p>