<p>Want to have a career in finance. Would luv to do some international business as well.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>what kind of career in finance?</p>
<p>NYU (Stern) is the second best finance school in the country (right after Wharton)--and I case can be made that it might move to #1 at some point in the near future.</p>
<p>Columbia is only comparable if you are looking for entrepreneurship or venture capital work. For a venture capital major, Columbia would be #1.</p>
<p>Cornell's AEM is a good school, but finance is not one of their strongest majors.</p>
<p>How does NYU CAS do then? Do econ majors have an advantage in CAS?</p>
<p>There was a thread on this earlier asking about NYU Stern vs Michigan Ross vs Michigan CAS (Econ) vs NYU CAS (Econ).</p>
<p>Basically, the final answer was NYU Stern > Michigan Ross > NYU CAS (Econ) > Michigan CAS (Econ). The biggest differentiator was first, being in a real business program and then secondly, NYU's close proximity to Wall Street.</p>
<p>Did you get into all three?</p>
<p>In my opinion, what matters isn't how good the finance major or concentration is. What matters is the job placement. Columbia is probably lower in absolute levels, but there are most likely also much fewer applicants from that school.</p>
<p>"Columbia is only comparable if you are looking for entrepreneurship or venture capital work. For a venture capital major, Columbia would be #1."</p>
<p>Considering Columbia doesn't have an undergraduate business school, would you care to elaborate on that statement?</p>
<p>Columbia is the best of those three. Then Stern, closely behind.</p>
<p>Stern finance is the best out of those definitely. Columbia has a very strong econ program, but if you want to go into finance, majoring in finance obviously has its advantages. Stern finance majors place in every aspect of the financial world.</p>
<p>I'm almost positive that the OP is a high school student that hasn't applied, much less gotten into, these competitive programs. They're all good, but first you should apply. It's possible you won't have these options in the first place.</p>
<p>Question:
what's the point of listing "Columbia Eco (financial)". There is no designated "finance track" in a Columbia Economics major.</p>
<p>And what does "would luv to do some international business as well" mean? That's such a terribly non-descriptive catch-all phrase.</p>
<p>go to columbia.</p>
<p>foxdie! : Wat made you say that? I am a second year student from one of the SUNY schools.
I got accepted to Cornell so far, but my supervisor (dean of business school) told me that it shouldn't be a problem to get in any of those school(He called every school and made sure they receive my references). </p>
<p>The question now is which school's degree would have a better long term effect. I know stern is well known in northeast, but how about nationwide? Columbia vs Stern?</p>
<p>Congrats on Cornell. Were you a GT for AEM? Are you saying the dean of your school thinks you will get into Columbia College and NYU Stern?</p>
<p>He either said it lightly or he just doesn't know. The question on which school's degree has a better long term effect hasn't arised yet because you likely will not have these all these options. If you want to dream about which you should choose in the off-chance that you do have all these options- my answer would be all of the above. Neither would be significantly better than the other in terms of recruitment.</p>
<p>P.S.- not trying to put you off, just my very educated <em>you'll just have to take my word on it</em> opinion.</p>
<p>even if your dean thinks you'll get into columbia, that doesn't mean anything unless he knows people in admissions.</p>