<p>I am interested in eventually going into the business field. I am looking for a school with great academics that also will have great internship opportunities for the sumemr and job opportunities after graduation. I have gotten into Duke, Northwestern and NYU Stern Scholars. If you have any suggestions please let me know</p>
<p>If you're interested in getting a more well-rounded education in the liberal arts, choose NU.</p>
<p>As with Duke, I believe Northwestern's economics department is ranked higher thank Duke's. </p>
<p>Hopefully, you choose Northwestern..hehe</p>
<p>Having Chicago right here is great for internship opportunities. I just got offered one for next summer at Grant Thornton accounting. </p>
<p>Check out this thread for the business education NU has to offer-
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=164436%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=164436</a></p>
<p>There's a lot of hidden stuff you wouldn't know right off the bat but is actually fantastic.</p>
<p>nystudent23</p>
<p>The following are links to courses/programs you may want to check out:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cas.northwestern.edu/econ/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cas.northwestern.edu/econ/</a> NU econ is cosistently ranked in the top 10 and ranked higher than Duke/NYU's.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.iems.northwestern.edu/content/bsiecurriculum.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.iems.northwestern.edu/content/bsiecurriculum.asp</a> Industrial engineering & management sciences is another popular major for business oriented students and also a top-10 program. It offers courses like organizational behavior and financial engineering.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/ugrad/conc/loc/curriculum/%5B/url%5D">http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/ugrad/conc/loc/curriculum/</a> Learning and Organizational Change (LOC) is another program you may find interesting. One of my friends double-majored in that and econ and now works as a venture captalist for HSBC</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/mmss/current_students/program.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/mmss/current_students/program.html</a> shows a list of recruiters of Mathematical Method for Social Science (MMSS) students for internships. The program is highly regarded and a nice complement to especially the econ program. You can apply for admission to the program for sophomore year if you haven't applied or got accepted as a freshman.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/medill/imc/%5B/url%5D">http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/medill/imc/</a> The intergrated marking communications is a graduate program and probably the best of its kind in the world. Two courses in that department are open to undergrads: IMC 303-0 Advertising and IMC 304-0 Direct Marketing. <a href="http://www.registrar.northwestern.edu/nucatalog/catalog0507/jourcat0507.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.registrar.northwestern.edu/nucatalog/catalog0507/jourcat0507.pdf</a></p>
<p>wow thanx for all the info guys...... i was initially leanin towards nyu but ur info is makin it a toiugh decision</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lazard.com/Careers/FA-NA-UG.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.lazard.com/Careers/FA-NA-UG.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=108904&highlight=core+top+consulting%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=108904&highlight=core+top+consulting</a> Not sure if you can view that link (I can no longer access it for some reason).
It's list of core schools for McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Booz Allen Hamilton, Monitor Group, Mercer Management Consulting </p>
<p>4 out of the 6 comapnies had Northwestern as one of their core schools. Northwestern, along with Dartmouth and Columbia, got "downgraded" this past year by McKinsey. Otherwise it would have been 5 out of 6--more than both Duke and NYU (I think they appear on 1 or 2 out of 6).</p>
<p>FYI: You can double-major any two of econ, LOC, and IEMS pretty easily. I knew a few Econ/IEMS majors when I was there.</p>
<p>just a tiny bit of [biased, since i'm from ny too] input-- it is very, very significant that you'll be right in nyc if you go to stern. especially since you mention internship/job opportunities.</p>
<p>thats whats makin my decision so tough. Im goin to end up in NYC in w.e job I do, so bein at NYU will prob. make it easier to get internships and jobs correct?</p>
<p>yea, going to Stern will give you so many oppurtunities (in the bussiness field)!!! Go to NYU!</p>
<p>nystudent, you can always go back to Columbia or NYU for graduate school..and plus, assuming that you're from NY, don't you want something new for a change?</p>
<p>If you're interested in receiving a well-rounded education in addition to strong business/economics foundation, Northwestern is the choice.</p>
<p>I tend to agree with kimfuge... I'm from NY as well and intentionally applied to all out-of-state schools because I wanted a change of pace. It is exciting to live somewhere completely different. And I guess you're a bit farther from Chicago than NYU is from NYC, but I can't imagine having less opportunities. Chicago is an amazing city and I pretty much want to live here now.</p>
<p>Well, I wouldn't automatically assume Stern students get internships in NYC anytime with any company they want just simply because of their location. I am very skeptical about that in fact, seeing how quite a few lists of what top companies consider "core schools" don't have NYU on those lists (surprise). If you look at the MBA ranking, Stern seems to get relatively low peer assessment scores. If the graduate students don't get the highest mark, why should we assume the undergrads get the highest mark? I know they do a good job in promoting themselves through their website and make themselves sound like they are the best place in the world to be for studying business (at least not for MBA however, according to ranking). Maybe NYU is indeed better than NU/Duke in getting internships at NYC for undergrads but you want to make sure that's really the case because I get a sense that you actually like Duke/Northwestern slightly better in terms of other aspects (like the campus and campus life) but it's the "perceived" edge in getting internships (but is it really?) that makes you lean toward NYU. </p>
<p>On the other hand, I personally knew three students getting jobs in Boston and NYC while they were holding student visas. If they could get jobs as foreigners with the NU diploma, I don't see how you can't get any offer if you are smart (and you are, otherwise you wont' get into Northwestern/Duke). As far as what their majors go, one of them did econ/comp sci with a coop certificate (super ambitious girl that did all that in 4 years); the second person did IEMS; the third person did IEMS and comp sci.</p>