<p>Nor did I bring up the idea of Wharton versus Columbia. College Grad said they were comparable in the business world. I disagreed. I would suggest reading the posts completely before assuming that I am trying to turn this into a Wharton vs. Columbia debate.</p>
<p>Hey I'm a freshman at Tisch and my best friend is a freshman at Columbia. From what I've seen we both have a comparable workload and are comparabley challenged but one has to consider what we're studying. Tisch teaches its training in the arts with the same rigour that Columbia teaches its liberal arts education and so it makes sense we're equally challenged. If I were in CAS I don't know if that would be the case. One also has look at the type of student who goes to NYU or Columbia. For instance one of my friends is a freshman at NYU studying East Asian Studies in CAS, his first choice was Columbia but he didn't get in. When it comes to study something like that it would probably make more sense to look into Columbia but for my area of interest (dramatic writing) it wouldn't have made any sense to apply to Columbia as Tisch offers a far superior education in an area like that. At the end of the day as others have said... if you were planning to go for Stern or Tisch I'd say NYU is a better for you than Columbia. The other time I might suggest NYU over Columbia is for their Social Work school because it allows its students to stay for a 5th year and complete a master's degree but that's probably not a popular major for most people. At the end of the day they're both good schools and one could do far worse.</p>
<p>Columbia's school of social work is well-regarded. In the first rankings of schools of social work that came up on Google, Columbia is tied for 3rd (after Michigan and WUSTL), and NYU is tied for 25th. Columbia also just built a new 10-story building for their School of Social Work.</p>
<p>-Steve</p>
<p>there's a small joke at columbia:
"nyu: everyone's favorite safety school"</p>
<p>Oh didin't know that. Anyway I guess it seems that it really is true then. Unless you wanted Stern or Tisch, Columbia is a better choice.</p>
<p>That finance-crazed Stern graduates do any better than finance-crazed Columbia econ major grads is wishful thinking (as was tiresomely established above). Of course, though, Stern is the only option among the two for those who want to pursue undergraduate business at the exclusion of any other discipline (myopic, IMO).</p>
<p>Only Tisch is really superior to any aspect of Columbia within its field.</p>