Here’s the link to the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship at Northwestern.
http://fcei.northwestern.edu/curriculum/undergraduate-certificate.html
You may want to research what programs/support are available for students with the same interest. One nice thing about the certificate at Northwestern is that it’s open to all majors.
Econ at Berkeley would be a great alternative to Haas. Plenty of Econ majors ended up where many Haas grads have landed. Same banks, consulting firms, multi-national companies recruit at both departments. Econ has IB-focused students-run orgs too. But since you want entrepreneurship, you don’t really have to major in business ad.
I’d say your best bet here – no contest – is Berkeley. It is in California, the State where you wanna end up after college, and Cal grads are prominent in Cali, more so than either NU or Cornell grads. There’s also a strong entrepreneurial spirit in Berkeley – almost everyone wants to do start ups or make his own company. It’s in the culture at Berkeley now – following Stanford’s success, and which is something I think not prevalent at NU or Cornell.
You can actually take any undergrad major at Cal and take the BASE Summer Program at Haas. Plenty of students do that. https://haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/BASE/
"It’s in the culture at Berkeley now – following Stanford’s success, and which is something I think not prevalent at NU or Cornell. "
I can’t personally vouch for what’s going on at Cornell in this regard, but I do find it sort of ironic that here you’re saying entreprenership isn’t prevalent, while another recent CC poster was actually leaving the engineering school there in part because she felt the college and its students were TOO focused on entrepreneurship [ fewer fellow students as interested in “pure” science"/research as she favored ] !
Snowbells:
I guess the first question is what do you want to study. IF you want to be in the hospitality industry, Cornell is the best choice, hands down. IF you don’t want to be in the hospitality industry – you probably have better alternatives though internal transfer is always a possibility, and Hotel School won’t close many doors.
Northwestern – has a certificate program through Kellogg School of Business Management, though no Business Major, per se. There also may be programs in SESP (and this school should be easy to transfer into.
Cal – I know less about this school than the others, but apparently has a pure business major.
All three are excellent excellent schools in genera.
Other factors, such as weather, etc. It is what it is.
Thanks @monydad . The only thing is that the Dyson school was not an undergraduate school that was available for me when I was applying and so I believe that it is a school that I would have to transfer in once I am at Cornell.
I do think that the Hotel Administration will fit well with me though, more than anything else (as I was also considering the IRL school) mainly because they are much more entrepreneurial in terms of their education which is something I’m really going to be focusing on as well.
And thank you again!