<p>Dartmouth is on there under LACs because Dartmouth is very much like one.</p>
<p>There is a ranking in the Gourman Report for Economics.</p>
<p>From what I've seen based on the analyst classes of a variety of investment banks, here's what I'd say are the schools most represented:</p>
<p>Ivys:
Harvard
UPenn (mostly Wharton)
Yale
Princeton
Dartmouth
Columbia
Brown
Cornell</p>
<p>Other top schools:
Duke
Stanford
Georgetown
UVA
Northwestern
Cal/Berkeley
UMich
NYU
Tufts
BC
UCLA
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
UNC</p>
<p>LACs:
Williams
Amherst
Bowdoin
Colgate
Middlebury
Hamilton
Haverford
Colby</p>
<p>Certainly, places like UChicago, Swarthmore & Wesleyan are very well respected schools with great economics depts, but I've never met anyone from one of these schools go into IB right out of undergrad. I'm sure some do and these types of jobs wouldn't be off limits to people from these schools, but these three especially have more of its students interested in getting a PhD than going into business.</p>
<p>You haven't met many UChicago students, have you? All of the Economics majors that I knew went straight into i-banking (though admittedly I did not hang out with the stereotypical UChicago crowd). One of the largest employers in our class was McKinsey & Company, a notable consulting firm based in NYC that accepted at least 30 people (that I know of) from my class. Accenture, JP Morgan, Boston Consulting Group and Banc of America Securities (from the top of my head) also accepted a lot of students -- not just Economics majors but also Political Science, English, even one girl who majored in Russian History!</p>
<p>I worked for Bain & Company for a little while in Sydney, Australia (although it is based in Boston) after graduating with an Economics degree -- and I didn't even make Honors!</p>
<p>(damn typos)</p>
<p>For some reason, some of the same people who elsewhere might have gone into IB, at Wesleyan, go into film making, to the tune of some 300 plus graduates, nearly 1.5% of all living alum. When the chairman of Wesleyan's film dept., Jeanine Basinger, was recently feted by the American Film Institute, she had two Academy Award winning screenwriters seated at her table as well producers and directors of some of the top selling films of the past two decades -- all alum.</p>
<p>"maybe the best students at UMich and UCLA are getting the same job and grad school opps (in amount, not %), there's no way that the avg econ student at UMich or UCLA will have as many respected opps as those from Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Duke."</p>
<p>That is because Alex is known to favor public schools and suffer quite a bias towards the University of Michigan (his alma matter). I'd have no problem supporting most of his statements had they been based on graduate programs. Unfortunately, this is not the case.</p>
<p>Columbia's econ department has "stolen" a number of top economists from the other top econ departments and thusly should be a top tier school.</p>
<p>They aren't even done yet too.</p>
<p>What schools are good in econ that also have good funnels into i-banking or other such lucrative business jobs, but aren't Columbia, or other schools that are the very top schools?</p>
<p>Upenn wharton is basically econ but it's also business
Carnegie Mellon Tepper is business or you can do economics which is half in the Tepper business school or you can double major in it.
Uchicago and Stanford are also great in econ.</p>
<p>top funnels into ibanking and consulting?</p>
<p>Few would disagree with this list: The Ivies, Stanford, Chicago, Duke, Northwestern...for Universities these are all schools you should be targeting if you want to go into Ibanking (i.e make a huge salary and have chains around your wrist for a couple of years lol)</p>
<p>More importantly, once you get into one of the above said schools, you've still got to get a high GPA (3.5+, maybe even higher) and do a lot on campus</p>
<p>Any thoughts on what I just wrote regarding how undergrad performance would help getting a top job in IBanking? The 15 or so target schools listed throughout the thread are where you'd get the best prospects from, but you've got to succeed there. Get involved with business related activities (or even a real student run business or something) or do something which makes it known you are a dedicated worker good at communicating with people (school paper or something?)</p>
<p>For undergraduate economics degree (with the exception of standout group of schools - UChicago, MIT, HYPS and UPenn) all other schools in top 20-25 will provide almost identical level of education and job/graduate school opportunities. More will depend of your personal qualities, drive, your grades, etc.</p>
<p>do you mean the top 20-25 ranked schools overall? or the top schools ranked for economics? if economics, what list are you using?</p>
<p>top 20-25 ranked schools overal</p>
<p>he meant.</p>
<p>and I mean.</p>
<p>so the usnews top 25?</p>
<p>well, at the undergrad level the top 10-15 schools are all target schools for Ibanking and consulting, from what it seems you are more concerned about going into the financial field right away instead of pursuing academia</p>
<p>If thats the case, you don't even have to major in Econ, just go for the big name schools in the fields and do the best you can in whatever</p>
<p>Any of the top schools have really similar economics programs at the undergrad level, when people are ranking econ programs they usually mean the grad programs, or atleast they should. You'll see some differences between undergrad and grad in any ranking.</p>