<p>What are the best schools to go to for dual degree seekers?</p>
<p>Specifically, i'm interesting in Engineering + economics/business.</p>
<p>Penn has a dual degree in engineering/management. MIT also has a top ranked business school. It goes without saying, however, that both are extremely difficult to get into.</p>
<p>Dual Degree and Joint Degree and NOT the same thing. Please notice that the Jerome Fisher program at Penn, also known as M&T=Short for Fisher Program in Management and Technology, the joint degree program with Wharton and Engineering.</p>
<p>Wash U St. Louis always touted that they specialize in encouraging double majors.</p>
<p>I guess double major and dual degree at WUSTL are the same thing? I don't know.</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh has a dual degree program with business and any CAS degree. I believe they may allow it to be done in conjunction with the Engineering school, but not absolutely sure.</p>
<p>What other top schools and ivy leagues, (other than penn and MIT already mentioned) are flexible enough to complete dual majors ?</p>
<p>Rice is famous for dual majors</p>
<p>Northwestern. Quarter system allows you to take more courses in one year and it's therefore not difficult to finish the requirements for dual-degree within 4 years. I know a girl that did that (econ/comp sci) and 6 quarters of co-op in 4 years. Their econ is top-10. The engineering school has 4 top-10 and 3 top-15 programs. The department of "industrial engineering and management sciences" is ranked 4th.</p>
<p>Many engineering students at Duke get a minor or second major in the college of arts and sciences.</p>
<p>Check out the IBE (Integrated Business and Engineering ) Homors program at Lehigh University.</p>
<p>If you are more into international relations then Tufts has a fantastic dual degree program with the Fletcher School. When you graduate in four years[hopefully] you get an MALD, masters in law and diplomacy and the regular BA.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins is very flexible, they have no university wide requirements, and alot of the students double major.</p>
<p>Actually, now that I think about it, Brown has NO core requirements. It should be easy to double major there.</p>
<p>Wisconsin allows for dual degrees in everything but the engineering school.</p>
<p>I second WUSTL. :p</p>
<p>I think people need to clarify how they are defining "dual degree."</p>
<p>At Penn dual degree means that you get 2 different undergraduate degrees from 2 different undergraduate schools (2 of B.A. - College, B.S. Econ - Wharton, B.S.Engineering - SEAS, B.A.S. - SEAS, B.S.N. - Nursing).</p>
<p>At Penn it's not the same as getting a "double major" because you complete the entire degree requirements for both schools and leave with 2 diplomas, not 2 majors.</p>
<p>There is also the option of submatriculating into masters, professional, or PhD programs (so you finish in a shorter amount of time than you would have if you applied after you graduated). So you can get your undergrad degree and JD from Penn Law in 6 years, for example.</p>
<p>Can other people clarify what their schools offer because this is really interesting to me :)</p>
<p>At MIT, a "double major" means you complete the major requirements for two majors (regardless of whether or not they're in the same school), and graduate with a diploma in each hand. You only have to complete the General Institute Requirements once, but you do have to complete a certain number of extra units outside the general requirements. (That is, for a single SB degree, you complete major + general req + electives = 180 units. For two SB degrees, you complete major 1 + major 2 + general req + electives = 270 units. This sort of sounds sensible, but it actually requires a lot more electives to be taken in many cases.)</p>
<p>Submatriculation programs are common in the school of engineering (ie a 5-year SB/M.Eng. degree).</p>
<p>At Tufts, it works pretty much the same way as elsewhere I guess. We just have the option to start the Masters in Law and Dip from the Fletcher and graduate with an AB and MALD. There are also other programs where you can get a masters in urban policy and environmental management with your AB or SB. </p>
<p>You can double major. It's pretty easy to do it in overlapping subjects like international relations and economics or poli sci since you can double count the courses you take towards a double major.</p>
<p>Taxguy is right; I second Brown. </p>
<p>It is very easy to do. The curriculum could not be more flexible. It is not unusual to find double-majors. Brown is also great for people who have two totally divergent interests, like someone wanting to major in art yet fulfill pre med requirements. Theoretically you could triple major, though I don't personally know anyone who did that.</p>