<p>Hi, I want to be a finance major. What is a better school to attend Boston College or Carnegie Mellon?</p>
<p>They’re pretty close in Finance. There are several differences that may sway you one way or another. Tepper is far smaller than CSOM, so that may be a positive or negative. But both schools are very different outside of academics, for example, BC has an excellent hockey team. I would go with fit and costs.</p>
<p>What type of finance career are you looking at?</p>
<p>CMU has a more quantitative focus and would be the better choice for S&T and computational finance careers.</p>
<p>BC seems to be more of a classic choice for corporate finance jobs (Fortune 500) and investment banking.</p>
<p>What is the net cost for each? You also need to consider that.</p>
<p>I want to go into investment banking or asset management. I like CMU but my father, an IT project manager on Wallstreet, thinks that it is too small for me. I was expecting to get into NYU, where I was a good fit and expected to get in. However, I did not. How is the Boston College Experience at Carrol school as compared to that at NYU Stern?</p>
<p>PS: my dad wants me to transfer to NYU later</p>
<p>Contact the career offices at both and see which firms recruit at each. That will give you a feel for what types of areas you can get into. I always though of BC as more of a Corporate Finance as well but get the data.</p>