<p>Is it better to go to a prestigious university and be an Economics majors or go to a "good" school and be a business major?</p>
<p>As I'm looking at options for college, I'm starting to think of where my degree could take me. I've heard that typically students in college (junior/senior year) apply for internships. I ultimately want to major in Psychology and Marketing. I've also considered Graphic Design and International Business. My concern is that my job/internship prospect may be greater if I attend a college where I could incorporate multiple interests (double/triple major, minors, etc.), such as Boston University, Northeastern, or Syracuse. On the other hand, do employeers consider the prestige of the university more? Would it be better for me to apply to schools like Dartmouth, Brown, Duke, and Tufts and be an Economics maybe (with a Psych double)?</p>
<p>^ that could be said about almost all degrees… i would say in liberal arts that is true but not in business, definately not worthless especially if you do accounting, finance…</p>
<p>Employers consider the prestige more when coming right out of college. It also helps, in the long run, to get connections if you attend a top school.</p>
<p>I was going to write a detailed post about the amount of risk you’re willing to take on by going to a ridiculously expensive school and then balancing that against your earning potential immediately after college but then I noticed you want to do marketing/psych. Ironically, your college’s brand is meaningless in marketing. Go for the cheap public and intern/work throughout college, not only summer of junior year.</p>
<p>Out of the schools you mentioned, the latter group will definitely be better. It is possible to go to a business program that would give you similar opportunities, perhaps even better, than some of the second group of schools, but none of the ones you mentioned in the first group will.</p>
<p>Ny0rker has a point in that business is a much more useful degree than most at an average university, but for top jobs, prestige matters more than the exact field of study. Also, you can do marketing at a top marketing program (check US News) and have significantly better offers than the average university.</p>
<p>Stay away from something like international business, because those programs only exist to attract spoiled applicants with good stats who think someones actually going to pay them to travel the world for a living right out of college. If you want to do graphic design, just go to a cheap school. Psychology is highly academic, so if you wanted to be a well-known psychologist or something, go to the most prestigious school you can, otherwise it’s usually a trash can major. By that I mean it’s for people who failed out of their first choice major or don’t know what they want to do, but know they don’t want to work too hard.</p>