Difficulty in looking for colleges

College Search & Selection
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<p>This may sound so stupid, but I am constantly getting confused between graduate schools within universities, and the major/minors thing. I understand majors/minors are for undergrads, and the grad schools are for after undergrad? I've been trying to find schools that offer finance majors/ accounting minors, but I can't seem to find any? All the schools I looked offered accounting/finance in their schools (eg UChicago offers econ in booth, but it is not available for undergrads?)</p>

<p>I'm so confused D:</p>

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<p>Maybe start here: [College</a> Admissions, Search, and Financial Aid Help from College Confidential - College Admissions, Search, and Financial Aid Help from College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search?crit=1]College”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search?crit=1) and choose “finance” as the major to search with and narrow it down from there.</p>

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<p>Universities usually have a list of available Majors on their Undergraduate Admissions web page. Stick to those if looking through departmental pages is confusing. If you look at individual departments or colleges at a university, then there usually is a link for undergraduate programs. Stick to that.</p>

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<p>You need to see what undergraduate schools/majors each place offers. There are a number of schools which have business graduate schools (for people who already hold four year undergraduate degrees) but not business undergraduate schools (and I believe that UChicago is one of them). Some of the top undergraduate business programs are on this list (I don’t put a lot of stock in the rankings, but it is a good list of schools to have as a starting point). [Best</a> Undergraduate Business Programs | Rankings | US News](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-overall]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-overall)</p>

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<p>At U of C undergrads with a 3.0 GPA or better can take up to six graduate business courses total at the Graduate School of Business (Booth) after freshman year ONLY IF there space available. The courses can only be used as free electives and won’t count towards a major.</p>

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<p>Cornell gives a pretty good explanation of what a major and minor consists of <a href=“http://as.cornell.edu/academics/major-minor/[/url]”>http://as.cornell.edu/academics/major-minor/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>At a university you may or may not be eligible to take graduate school courses. Generally speaking, if you’ve completed the prerequisites or have a certain class standing (often junior or above) you can enroll in non professional school (think law school, med school, or business school) courses. For instance, I entered my current university as a junior (in college, class standing is usually based on number of credits, think courses, completed) and needed to take a class on non Western civilization to complete a graduation requirement. I looked for a class that fit with my schedule, and found two that I thought sounded interesting although one had 150 students and the other was capped at 15. I didn’t realize it, but it was a graduate level course that was also open to undergrads. Because I was a junior, I was allowed to take the course even though it counted for students looking to earn their masters. Next year, I will take a graduate level course in geology as an undergrad. </p>

<p>U Chicago also offers economics as an undergrad major and a graduate discipline.</p>