<p>Does anyone know how WashU's economic major is?</p>
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<p>Reputation wise, it should open doors for decent govt jobs (like the Fed) and data analyst jobs (like Gallup). That’s assuming a very good GPA. For consulting and top finance firms, it is a borderline target. In lean hiring years, this means low odds of landing a job. You may have the top 2 or 3 students land plum jobs. </p>
<p>In terms of program quality, it’s undergraduate economics and there’s not much to say. Unless student goes the extra mile for research or advanced classes, every econ program is likely very similar. Grad programs don’t really care where you went: they’re much more concerned with what high-level math/econ courses you took and how well did. </p>
<p>Geography hurts WashU. The closest major job market is Chicago, which is 5 hrs away. This means your job search is pretty much restricted to career fair. </p>
<p>A 3.5 gpa would get you decent-paying cubicle job at F500 or admission into a tier 2 grad school. Less than that, and get ready for Teach for America or lower-paying job at no-name company.</p>
<p>Not a Top 25 dept. Top 50.</p>
<p>^^Actually Teach for America is very competitive these days. TFA prefers people from top colleges. TFA can be used as a hook for top b-school applications; I bet there are large number of smart but calculated people who use it as the stepping stone instead of doing it for the mission. </p>
<p>By the way, colleges are proud of high rankings in terms of #grads going to TFA.</p>
<p>WashU is much worse than its ranking at placing into elite business jobs. If thats your goal look elsewhere. Timothy Geithner went to Dartmouth and Paul Krugman went to Yale. Those schools are much better feeders into finance and top econ jobs.</p>