<p>For undergraduate studies at Haas, are the perceptions of recruiters and opportunities that much lower than at the top economics programs at Ivies and Stanford/MIT?</p>
<p>Haas does very well with getting top jobs on the west coast. However, you are going to see a larger gap between Haas and the ivies for the NYC jobs.</p>
<p>Is this just a function of location? Seeing as how the vast majority of undergraduate Haas alumni stay on the West Coast, the school is more visible and there are obviously more connections in San Francisco and Los Angeles compared to Wall Street. However, since the top jobs (Management Consulting, Bulge Bracket Investment Banking, etc.) available to Business & Economics majors do consider the prestige of the undergraduate institution, how does Haas Business (and, to a lesser extent, Berkeley Econ) stack up with HYP Econ? U.S. News ranked it second only to Wharton and Sloan, definitely a strong ranking, but obviously HYP Econ paves the way for top jobs as well. </p>
<p>Another anomaly is Stanford Economics. The location argument doesn't hold water here, so perhaps the real question is, what is the value of Haas Business/Berkeley Econ compared to Stanford Econ in the eyes of recruiters?</p>
<p>How would you compare UCLA/biz-econ to Stanford and Berkeley?</p>