Hey,
I have always wanted to know that which of the colleges are considered to be the best finance major schools in USA. Would really be helpful if you suggest some.
Baruch, NYU, Michigan, Penn, Cornell . . .
@Hetroublemaker…Cornell doesn’t offer finance as a major. Having said that, look at the Cornell’s renown Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Within the major of applied economics and management, you can do a concentration in finance. A good friend is a Dyson alumna. She has done exceedingly well and loved Cornell.
https://admissions.cals.cornell.edu/academics/majors/aem/
https://dyson.cornell.edu/programs/undergraduate/
The University of Michigan Ann Arbor also doesn’t offer a major in finance. You would take finance courses within BBA major at the Ross School Business.
https://michiganross.umich.edu/about
https://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/bba/curriculum
Thank you sir @merc81. I am open to some more suggestions if you would help me so.
@CrewDad Thank you so much sir.
Will look into all the said points. I am still open to more suggestions if possible, sir.
@Hetroublemaker Penn is the best school for a finance major for sure. Other schools with top finance majors are MIT, NYU, Berkeley, UMich.
However keep in mind that many other top schools do not offer finance majors but rather economics or business economics majors which would also serve you well for a career in finance. Such schools are other ivies like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth and top schools like Duke and Stanford.
Cornell has a finance concentration in Dyson. It also has a finance, accounting, and real estate concentration at its School of Hotel Administration. A friend of mine at Cornell used to joke about that there are 5 academic units at Cornell teaching finance courses. It is just confusing and crazy.
In the past, I would not really recommend Cornell for my own kids and my friends’ kids for the above reason because their best finance faculty members are in their graduate Johnson School. Their undergraduate students would have little access to their best finance faculty.
But now things start to change, the 3 business schools will be merged into a single one. Some lesser junior finance faculty at School of Hotel Administration and Dyson are starting to let go. If current graduate faculty members would need to teach undergraduate students in the future, I can see undergraduates at Cornell to be better served in the future.
If this restructure is done well, there is a possibility that Cornell’s undergraduate business school can be very close to Wharton in 1 or 2 decades because at this tier of competition most others are structured as liberal arts colleges and have only economics as their offerings. Being able to differentiate and also with enough critical mass (both Penn and Cornell have a big business undergraduate enrollment) can be beneficial.
@tremai12: Baruch sends more graduates to Morgan Stanley than any other school, as well as comparably sized numbers to other Wall Street firms. This may be partly because of Baruch’s sheer size (the largest undergraduate business school in the nation), but certainly relates to quality of program as well. Cornell has already received a review on this thread for its evolving business/finance programs.
Let me be very frank to you all, I only received 1370 as my SAT scores and furthermore I want to become an investment banker or I can even go to work at Wall Street
Also sir, if europe also serves best financial schools for undergraduate I can also deviate my path to it.
Check this out: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/faq/what-are-a-target-semi-target-and-non-target-schools
Depending on your profile / other ECs, if you apply ED to a “semi target” you might have a decent chance and good finance base.