Can somebody please explain how majors and minors and double majoring works at Upenn. I wanted to apply to the Wharton school of business and double major in Finance and Computer Science. Would this be possible and if not can somebody please offer me an alternative to this.
http://www.upenn.edu/fisher/ Finance/Comp Sci is a very common combination for M&T students.
Penn is very well-known for its focus interdisciplinary approach and there are many options for interdisciplinary study.
You can apply to the M&T program and choose to pursue a comp sic degree in SEAS and a finance concentration in Wharton. Or you can pursue an uncoordinated dual degree between SEAS and Wharton. You can also pursue a double major between SEAS in compsci and CAS in Economics. You can also pursue a finance degree in Wharton or an economics degree in cas and a minor in compsci in SEAS. or a major in economics and a minor in economics in CAS.
I thought the M&T program was economics and comp sci.
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@dianaoreos No, it’s not. It’s a dual-degree program between the Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Everyone in Wharton graduates with a “Bachelor of Science in Economics” but that’s really an economics degree in name only. It’s a business degree where you can pick various concentrations, etc. (if you want to learn more, just read many of the other posts on here about the Wharton program). For engineering, you can select from various majors, but comp sci probably is the most common for M&T students (not certain if true, but just based on kids I know in M&T, most of them are comp sci, and I know some others in MEAM and systems). It’s very common to do finance and comp sci in the M&T program.
@DianaOreos “I thought the M&T program was economics and comp sci.”
You can choose any business major, and almost any SEAS major (not sure about NETS or DMD).
So Chem E and Finance is fine, for example.
If you don’t get into M & T, you can take one major, say Comp Sci, and add classes in another subject. If you really want a dual degree it is possible. You have to apply, but it is easier than M & T to get into. I am not sure what the benefit of the dual degree is though. You can compete for any job with a single degree.
^ There are people currently in the M&T program doing DMD, and also recent graduates. The M&T website lists DMD as an acceptable SEAS major:
@renaissancedad I also see NETS on the list (Networked & Social Systems Engineering).
That may be correct, but I am not sure. The NETS webpage seems like it may conflict with that.
http://www.nets.upenn.edu/academics/planning-your-degree-nets-overview
About half way down it says:
“NETS is an intensive four-year program that requires acceptance to both to the University of Pennsylvania and the NETS program itself. NETS cannot be combined with another degree program for a double major.”
Maybe you can’t add it to a double major, but you can add it to a dual degree? idk.
^ I wasn’t 100% sure about NETS, so I didn’t highlight it. But there are students at M&T who are doing or who have done DMD:
http://www.upenn.edu/fisher/stephanie-zhu-mt17-0
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I’ve never seen an actual profile of a current or past M&T student who did NETS, FWIW.
@renaissancedad
I would think the difficulty of doing NETS would be that the requirements are somewhat more extensive and challenging than other majors, but I am not sure why they would not allow it as an M & T program, if the student wants to do the work. I just think it would be likely to take longer.
For example, the two Econ classes that are included in the 40 credits for the NETS degree are Econ 101 and Econ 212. That basically assumes that you skip Econ 001 and Econ 002, and can still keep up. I think that skipping those courses is possible for a very strong student, but I think most students would be at a significant disadvantage. If the student decides to take Econ 001 and Econ 002 first, then that is going to be two more courses.