<p>What is the best undergrad degree for someone aspiring to be a Business Process or Management Consultant? </p>
<p>Should it be something technical like Finance? Theory-based like Economics? Or maybe more communicable like Marketing or Management?</p>
<p>Management consulting is about analytical thinking (and all the fun stuff on House of Lies). You need to be able to demonstrate that you can handle novel situations because that will be your job. From my school, people went to top tier consulting firms with a wide array of backgrounds (Econ, political science, accounting, finance, environmental studies, communications, psychology, biology, history, all sorts of engineering…).</p>
<p>Your GPA is the easiest measure (though there are certainly others, I don’t know a single person who works at MBB and graduated with less than a 3.6) to determine whether you get an interview, regardless of your major. From there, it’s your ability to demonstrate quick thinking (the case interview), and from there it’s your ability to show that you fit into company culture.</p>
<p>@chrisw</p>
<p>Would an undergrad degree in Advertising from a top tier university, a solid GPA, and good extracurriculars get me an interview?</p>
<p>What top tier school has an advertising degree?</p>
<p>I believe UT-Austin is a top tier university. Their Advertising program is ranked first in the U.S.</p>
<p>Well for UT you’re gonna take a backseat to the Finance/Accounting majors, so you’d be better off choosing those. And if UT is top tier than what is a school like Stanford or Yale? Are they in the same league as UT Austin?</p>
<p>Nobody is taking a back seat based on their major unless you’re talking about a Management major against a Music major, and even then, the Music major still has a chance of getting an interview.</p>
<p>As far as who gets jobs, all that matters for top tier management consulting firms is that they recruit at your school. If they recruit at UTA, which they do, UTA students have as good a chance as Harvard, Yale and Penn students. So as far as recruitment is concerned, yes, UTA, Stanford and Yale are in the same league.</p>
<p>They do recruit at UTA, which is all you really need I guess. But I’m sure the proportion of hires that come from Stanford, Yale, Dartmouth, etc. are many times the hires from UTA. On the MBA level it’s worse (or better if you go to Harvard).</p>
<p>I think it is misleading to say that :
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<p>From what I have heard, it’s more accurate to say that your chances of getting an interview are higher at Stanford and Yale. But once you get an interview they no longer care about your college, at which point a UTA student is equal to a Stanford/Yale student.</p>
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Really? Convince me.</p>
<p>obviously it depends on how many tiers you think there are. How many colleges are in the U.S.? thousands, I’m sure</p>