<p>Actually Northwestern happens to have one of the largest econ departments in the country.
Along with Dartmouth and Princeton, Northwestern also happens to be a school where 4 of the top 5 elite consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Mercer, Monitor) recruit directly on campus.</p>
<p>Georgetown gets recruited by 1 out of 5.
(Reference: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=235587&highlight=consulting+core%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=235587&highlight=consulting+core</a>)</p>
<p>In terms of objective figures, it ranks 7th in USNWR, above Penn, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, and 9th in the Nat'l Research Center rankings, again above schools like Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Brown, Caltech.</p>
<p>Georgetown ranks 54th.
(Reference: <a href="http://www.stat.tamu.edu/%7Ejnewton/nrc_rankings/area36.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area36.html</a>)</p>
<p>"But for ibanking and econ those two schools certainly wouldn't be among the first 5/6 schools I'd think of."</p>
<p>yeah well that's what you think. we do pretty well.</p>
<p>"at nu i'd be majoring in econ and/or ir"</p>
<p>And at Northwestern Int'l Studies is a conjunct major, so it is very possible and plausible to major in econ in conjunction with Int'l Studies.</p>