<p>hi. i was wondering if someone could tell me what are some good economics and finance schools? i am looking to double major in these 2 subjects if not then econ is probably my 1st choice.</p>
<p>i know wharton is probably the best and u chicago (econ) is amazing as well. What are some other great schools for these majors? and how about canadian schools?</p>
<p>thanks for ur help.</p>
<p>This question has only been answered about 8000 times.</p>
<p>yes... i realised there are a lot of threads about good undergrad business schools but i wasnt sure if these business schools necessarily had good economics programs as well.</p>
<p>if this is the case... i'm sorry for the trouble caused.</p>
<p>Most good buisness schools have good econ departments. In any case, the actual prestige of the econ department is not that important compared to the prestige of the school if what you're interested is an econ education and then to move on buisness.</p>
<p>MIT, Michigan, and Berkeley, for e.g. all have excellent econ departments. MIT is the best, but the difference doesn't matter unless you want a PhD in econ. </p>
<p>Actually, for Univ Penn, there are two econ degrees: One is the B.S. in Econ, which is what all Wharton grads receive (regardless of their concentration.) The other is the B.A. in Econ which is granted by the Economics department in Penn's Art and Sciences. The B.A. is actual economics, whereas the B.S. in Econ is actually business.</p>
<p>haha, Most of the schools with good undergrad business programs have very good economics programs as well......such as penn, mit, ucb, umichigan, uva, cornell...........................</p>
<p>I would recommend UBC for Canada. They have a strong undergraduate business school.</p>
<p>How about the ivies like Harvard, Yale, Princeton? How are their econ programs?</p>
<p>what school besides penn offers a dual degree program in 4 years? i'm looking for a top engineering degree and a top business degree.</p>
<p>"How about the ivies like Harvard, Yale, Princeton? How are their econ programs?"</p>
<p>Funny guy!</p>
<p>he wasnt trying to be funny. and someone please answer my questions. if it is not possible to get a dual degree, what are some of the top financial engineering programs? besides the obvious ones such as Stanford and MIT</p>
<p>"How about the ivies like Harvard, Yale, Princeton? How are their econ programs?"</p>
<p>first tier econ programs.......but no undergrad business programs though.</p>
<p>as far as good econ programs, depends what you want. youre lookin to study econ rigorously to prepare for a phD, use the graduate school rankings.
top econ phD programs in some order (obviously not exact)</p>
<p>MIT, UChicago, Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, UMich, NYU, UMinn, UWisc, UCSD. Northwestern and Cornell also are somewhere in the mix, god knows where. Each program besides the top 5 have specific strengths (i.e. UMinn is one of the best schools in Macro)</p>
<p>with that said, you study math/physics/engineering to do a phD in econ (with some background in econ to show you have interest and understanding). i transferred out of stern into the CAS/Courant Institute to do a math and theoretical econ double.</p>
<p>People generally major in econ as a pre-business degree and then hit wall st. or the like. You can do that from any strong school with Wall St. presence. The top Wall St. Schools to set some sort of records straight:</p>
<p>Harvard, Wharton, Princeton, MIT, UVA, NYU, Cornell, Duke, Columbia, UChicago, Yale, UMich. Stanford and Berkeley with certain banks, the west coast thing is odd and out of my relm. Once you hit final rds, it doesnt matter what school so much but who you are and what youve done. Individual not institution. I am ironically going to be a trader at a bulge bracket (BofA) come june. It pays better than academics. Also, I speak from experience, i think I interviewed with every wall st firm except Morgan Stanley and Merrill and hit final rounds with many for banking and/or trading.</p>
<p>ALso, 1/3 of my math degree is mathematical finance courses from the Courant Institute program. All math finance/fin eng are grad programs. CMU has some quantiness to their ugrad business and princeton allows a certificate in their program for ugrads. Also Stanford has the same deal. The top programs are Princeton, Columbia, NYU-Courant, CMU, Berkeley, UChicago(is ok). MIT offers no fin eng degree but has a computational finance add on that many students tack on, its like 4 courses. Once again, with that said you dont need a math finance degree to be a quant but solid math/programming skills and a little finance background.</p>
<p>Hope this helps! Damn i wrote alot.</p>
<p>Groucho, What kind of gpas are these firms looking for? Do the firms look at all your grades or just the grades in econ, fin, math?</p>
<p>minimum gpa is 3.0 to 3.2, meaning they wont interview people with gpas below that (though my roommates friend has a 1.9 a UVA and will be doing banking at Bear Stearns and interviewed at a large amount of BB, rare and incredible exception). Shoot for around 3.5, the higher the gpa the better your chances. I personally have a 3.4, but I have a years worth of masters and phD coursework in economics and mathematics. Overall, a low gpa can be made up for in other areas, i.e. tons of good work experience/working during the school year.</p>
<p>Work experience isnt a help these days but a requirement to get these jobs. Start the summer after your freshman year.</p>
<p>Well, it is a little late for that. I was wondering for my kids. My daughter is majoring in financial mathematics at Michigan and will definitely take some masters courses.</p>
<p>I am glad to see that a 3.0 to 3.2 gpa doesn't eliminate a person even if my daughter never goes into the field.</p>
<p>sounds good, didnt know they had an ugrad math fin degree. A lower gpa in math/physics/engineering is usually a bit more acceptable than econ, finance, accting since theyre basically harder. Regardless, math fin gives a background in math, programming, and economics and leaves alot of options open, im sure she'll get a good job somewhere (as long as the markets dont go sour, knock on wood).</p>
<p>Yeah or everything becomes computerized.</p>
<p>Northwestern. Their team (made up of econ majors) just won the College Fed Challenge two years in row. Schools they beat include U of Chicago.</p>
<p>How is UT-Austin's Economics department in comparison to McCombs?</p>
<p>GrouchoMarxist, i noticed that u mentioned uwisc.. a lotta people don't talk about uwisc-madison. I'm currently a hs sr. and am highly considering attending there, since i prolly wont get into tepper or stern, would wisc-madison seriously give me a shot at ibanking</p>