CMU engineering vs Tepper! help!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>I'm accepted to both Engineering and Tepper. I want to be a banker but I heard that an engineering degree won't hurt a banking job since it shows that you have the logic and the brain (spoke to 2 bankers about this). I have interest in engineering too and it's always good to diversify isn't it? And CMU's famous for its engineering anyway! Any thoughts on this? </p>

<p>Oh and anyway, do they let you do double degree in both engineering AND business? That's an ideal situation for me! But how hard is it to get into such program and how hard is it to BE in the program? Hahaha.. Thanks so much!! :)</p>

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<p>Our past group of bankers, who have been recently fired and are being layed off; What can one say?</p>

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<p>Haha no I'm international student... They're still hired at a reputable investment bank. :)</p>

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<p>If you can handle engineering, you can probably handle doubling in business if you're interested in the classes you'd be taking.</p>

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<p>But is it possible to do so in the first place?? Doing double degree from Engineering and Tepper? Does anyone know?</p>

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<p>Haha.. I'm in the same situation. I'm accepted to the engineering, science, and business schools, and I can't really decide which to choose. So I just chose all three when accepting my offer.</p>

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<p>o.O you can do that??? Aren't you supposed to choose only one?? Then when you go there, where do you go??? Hahaha..</p>

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<p>Well, on the acceptance form, they allow you to pick more than one college to attend. You simply have to rank your preferences. So I'm pretty sure they let you do it. I'm assuming when I go there, I might take classes in each college or else have decided on a single one by then.</p>

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<p>Oh, that means so, and not means that we will get our first choice only? That's cool...</p>

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<p>umm... you can't be in more than one college. Sure, you can double-major, but you need a home department. There is a business-engineering joint program, but I forget what it's called. Also, engineering is almost certainly more difficult than business here.</p>

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<p>Yup, got accepted to my first choice (engineering) and my offers from business and science schools were canceled when I selected all three. But it'll probably be no problem transferring schools later..</p>

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<p>oh ok, thanks for the info!:)</p>

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<p>Double major in Tepper is fairly common. Tepper is generally a lot easier than Engineering majors, a lot of transfers to Tepper as well. </p>

<p>What kind of banker do you want to be? Are you looking at Finance? If that's so you might as well stay in Tepper. Engineering education is pretty specific, and it seems that you know what you want to do, so you minus well focus on it. People who double major in Tepper with focus on Engineering generally are more interested in entrepreneurship or managing, but still need that engineering background to work in that field..</p>

<p>It's true that if you're interested in things like algorithmic trading or hedge funds, you should look into Computational Finance. Or computer science and finance.</p>