<p>Uh...help! This is going to be a tough decision. Possibly doing pre-business or Econ. Anyone want to give me their two cents?</p>
<p>Um personally I would go to Northwestern because I like its campus the best lmao. But that is just me. The University of Chicago is supposed to have one of the strongest economic programs in the country. Georgetown is a great school as well. So yeah, my post wasn't very helpful =P. But I'm sure you will make a great decision.</p>
<p>For econ, you can't beat U Chicago. For business, Northwestern's Kellog is better than Georgetown. Northwestern has a beautiful campus. But all three are amazing! Congrats!</p>
<p>If you're into investment banking and consulting, Georgetown's MSB is very, very strong. Top ibanking and consulting recruiters go to Georgetown. Other than those two fields, MSB is not as strong...so if at some point you decide you don't want to go into ibanking or consulting, you might be kind of screwed.</p>
<p>Chicago and Northwestern are amazing incredible at econ, with Chicago leading and Northwestern very close behind.</p>
<p>If I were you, I'd visit Northwestern and Chicago and see which environment I like best. Chicago is very quirky and is known as the place where "fun goes to die," although Chicagoans dispute that. Chicago is a very intellectual place, overly so because they don't have any sport spirit or athletics. </p>
<p>Northwestern, on the other hand, is much more laidback and has a fantastic balance of academics and sports. It's also a Big 10 school, so football is really big. It also has Greek life, which I don't think Chicago has.</p>
<p>hotasice i think you're dramatically overstating the reputation of msb in the business world. an accurate statement that could be made about it is that its obscenely underfunded for a undergraduate college of such a well reputed institution like georgetown. georgetown's endowment is limited as it is, and a very large majority of that limited endowment goes to the college and especially to the school of foreign service (gtown's most prominent claim to fame). </p>
<p>msb was ranked 11 last year in businessweek's top undergraduate business programs and is pushed down to rank 19 this year (2008). msb is ranked 42 on the "recruiter survey" component of said rankings, and its ranked 39 for "student survey". if you look at usnews, you can see that msb is ranked at #21, with a peer assessment score of just 3.7 out of 5.</p>
<p>but rankings aside, realize that the DC location benefits that go to the school of foreign service simply aren't relevant in a discussion about the business world. DC is abysmal when compared to the three largest urban markets and financial centers in the united states - NYC, LA, and chicago.</p>
<p>so yeah i think that georgetown msb should really be cut out of your equation. northwestern and chicago are both really great schools. they both harbor the benefits of being in or close to such a large and dynamic metropolitan area like chicago. in terms of academics, one could make the argument that chicago does have the slight edge, however that edge is comparable to an edge that yale might have over columbia. its negligible, when you're talking about schools with academics that are so sky-high in the first place. but the key difference to realize between an chicago vs northwestern argument and a yale vs columbia argument is that in the latter situation, the school with the perceived slightly better academics (yale) doesn't have an extremely unattractive negative factor weighing it down (like say chicago's social atmosphere =O).</p>
<p>i say just visit both open houses and make up your mind. congratulations though, these schools are amazing accomplishments! did anyone else from your school make it into any of these schools or were you the only one?</p>
<p>chyeah: I got my information from a current Georgetown MSB student who this summer is heading off to Hong Kong for a $10k+ summer internship with a big ibanking firm. He told me those are MSB's main strengths, and even at that MSB's undergrad school > its grad school by far.</p>
<p>He said the only reason why MSB attracts top ibanking recruiters is because of Georgetown's general prestige and name--not because of MSB's overall quality.</p>
<p>I completely agree that MSB isn't great at all, but top recruiters for ibanking go there anyway. The fact that MSB is in DC probably explains why recruiters go to MSB also.</p>
<p>TOTAL COLLEGE ENDOWMENT AND PER CAPITA (undergrad and grad)
Northwestern $5.14bn ($302,322), Georgetown $834mm ($73,569)</p>
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<p>Chyeah has it dead on. The first and most important question any recruiter will ever ask you is how much money your college has in the bank. Your answer to this question, will be more important than you GPA, your internships, your extracurricular activities and even your actual major. So by all means, go to the school with the most money in the bank. You might even do well to prepare small laminated 3 by 5 cards to hand out to interviewers so that they are well aware that your school has a lot of money sitting around.</p>
<p>Bump. Any more input?</p>
<p>i recommend Gtown MSB. Gtown MSB has fantastic rep in the East Coast and is one of the few target schools for top companies. Chicago and NU are good too, but I would choose Gtown bc of the fantastic job prospects. Also, you should consider the school environment/ social life into the consideration. All three schools are different. UChicago, esp. is vastly different from either Gtown or NU in many aspects. I sincerely encourage to you visit all 3 schools and spend some time at each. Although you will have to pay for plane ticket, etc. it is well worth the cost!</p>
<p>What about "business administration" at Georgetown?</p>
<p>You should go where you want, if money is not an issue. They are all three of them good schools, go where you think you'd be happiest. Trying to nitpick on rankings, etc. is silly IMHO.</p>
<p>Visit Northwestern and UChicago. Most people are happy at one and not the other and figure out which is which fairly quickly when they visit.</p>
<p>All three are good, but very different. Chicago has a noticeably off-beat, intellectual vibe...it's a very "proud-to-be-nerdy" school, which isn't the right fit for everyone. Northwestern is more traditional; Greek, football, slightly preppy. Georgetown is in between the two, I'd say. </p>
<p>Personally, I'd pick Georgetown. The social life seems very balanced there, the business program is strong with lots of recruiting, and the winters in DC are more bearable. </p>
<p>Also - although New York, LA, and Chicago are the 3 largest cities in the country, I wouldn't say that they're the best for business. Not anymore. The vast majority of job growth these days is found in the southeast states + Texas.</p>
<p>Bump. 10char</p>
<p>You know you dont have to write the 10char after a bump. </p>
<p>Just look at my next post.</p>
<p>bump .</p>
<p>Not gonna say which one is better. But just want to let you know NU has TONS of business-related courses/options outside of their economics department:</p>
<p>Fyi, check out the following business-related options/courses outside of their econ:
Business</a> Institutions Program, Northwestern University
Northwestern</a> University :: Undergraduate Leadership Program
Kellogg</a> School Certificate Program for Undergraduates - Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University<br>
Northwestern</a> University - Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
learning & organizational change Undergraduate</a> :: Curriculum
integrated marketing certificate Medill</a> - IMC Undergraduate Certificate</p>
<p>Chicago has arguably the strongest econ department in the world, as well as the top MBA program as ranked by Businessweek and The Economist. Most of the grad school professors also teach in the undergrad college(including Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics).</p>