<p>i was writing a private message that inspired this question.. what would be a good school to consider if i wanted to double in business and engineering? such a school would have a good program in both majors and make it relatively easy to major or get a dual degree across different schools.</p>
<p>I believe UPenn has a program where you can double major at Wharton and SEAS. You can always just major in an engineering related field and get an MBA.</p>
<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (sorry, 10 char :))</p>
<p>The University of California.</p>
<p>Any school but the University of California.</p>
<p>I suggest CMU, USC, UTA, MIT (just a reminder:), UMICH (like UCs, not easy to do, but both majors good)</p>
<p>Superchica, any "program" that allows a student to double major in Business and Engineering in less than 5 (I would even say 5.5) years is probably going to short change the student in both fields of study. I recommend you pick one major and take classes in the other. Schools that are excellent in both Engineering and Business include:</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California-Berkeley
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
University of Texas-Austin</p>
<p>btw the program at Penn is not a double major...it is a DUAL DEGREE so you graduate with a B.S.E with a concentration in xxxxxx from Wharton and a B.S. in xxxxxxxx from SEAS. All in 4 years.</p>
<p>Bern, most Engineers I know could not handle the workload in 5 years. To double major in Engineering and Business in 4 years is practically impossible, unless if the two are watered down significantly.</p>
<p>UIUC, CMU</p>
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<p>Alexandre: You can do it in 4 years with most of the emphasis on Wharton and a reduced engineering courseload. While if you want to become a professional engineer you can do it in 5 years with a total focus on engineering and a watered down business curriculum.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mandt.wharton.upenn.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.mandt.wharton.upenn.edu/</a></p>
<p>Exactly Bern, in other words, you are majoring in one and minoring in the other. A person who goes through that program is either not going to be as strong in Engineering as a person who concentrated purely in Engineering or as strong in Business as somebody who focused purely on Business.</p>
<p>It's still a dual degree. There are also many in Penn who aren't in M&T and still do dual degrees with engineering and Wharton. 30% of Penn engineers have a dual degree either with college or Wharton, many finish in 4 years.</p>
<p>It really depends on the school. Since Penn Engineering is not traditionally structured, it's easier to do dual degrees there than at a school like MIT.</p>
<p>it is way more than just a major and a minor. One is like a full degree while the other is about 3/4 of the full curriculum. A minor is not even 1/4 of a full curriculum.</p>
<p>I've heard of certain (legendary) people at MIT actually getting quadruple-degrees at once. More to the point, I personally know a girl who just completed 2 bachelor's degrees (in EECS and Management) and a MEng in EECS, all in 5 years, including a halfyear coop. </p>
<p>I agree with Alexandre that any special program that awards dual-degrees is going to shortchange the students in someway. The question is, do you care about that? The fact is, a lot of engineering students don't ever really intend to work as engineers, they just want to have an engineering degree either for reasons of prestige, or for a backup career, or so forth. That's why you see so many engineers running off to jobs in consulting and banking, or going off to law school or medical school, etc. So if they get shortchanged in engineering, they figure, so what?</p>
<p>hmm.. if i'm not mistaken, penn's dual degree program in engineering and business is extremely hard to get into and only a small number of students are admitted into it. i think getting into wharton alone would be a bit of a stretch for me, although i am considering applying ED (:</p>
<p>i am interested in a engineering background just in case i decide to work for a biotechnology company, or start up my own research company one day.. it couldn't hurt. and if i decide engineering really is my calling, i can always go back to get my masters if i do need to study an engineering field more in depth. i don't know if that's a good plan, i'm just speculating. what do you guys think?</p>
<p>as you can probably tell, i'm still vacillating between very different majors.. i'm really interested in so many subjects. i love all my classes in school and i love to learn.. i'm such a nerd (:</p>
<p>many thanks for all the advice!</p>
<p>You can also apply to SEAS and then get a dual degree (or even M&T) with Wharton after you complete your first year. Of course, you'll need the GPA to be able to transfer/dual enroll in Wharton. But in any case, you can't go wrong with Penn Bioengineering since its very good, most distinguished of Penn's engineering program.</p>
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<p>your suggestion really interests me. how many engineering students end up doing that?</p>
<p>thinking about majoring in engineering kind of scares me because i'm afraid i'll be way over my head with math and sciences. i definitely get the best grades in my math and science classes and i do math competitions for fun.. but i feel like engineering majors, especially at prestigious schools, are so good at what they do i'd never be able to catch up. what kind of engineering majors are the most popular, least popular, "easiest", and most "challenging"?</p>
<p>In the class of 2004 survey, there were 47 respondees stating salaries in the category of Wharton/SEAS, and 105 SEAS respondees stating salaries that were not Wharton/SEAS. The total class size was 340. So around 15%-20% as the percent of Penn engineers with Wharton/SEAS degrees. </p>
<p>Of these, probably half are M&T, and half are plain Wharton/SEAS. </p>
<p>The difficulty of majors vary from school to school. At penn, BioE is the biggest, so it might be the most competitive.</p>