<p>I'm planning on majoring in econ at CC and going into an i-banking career. When I apply to internships during the school year and summer, will I be continually beat out by students from HYPSM/Wharton? After I graduate, will I be at a disadvantage when applying for jobs and top business schools?</p>
<p>Columbia is up to par with those schools. Plus, it is in NYC which opens a lot of opportunity for you to intern for the banks and such during your stay in NYC.</p>
<p>Absolutely not. Columbia's prestige is right up there with the other schools you mentioned; you're only going to get beat out by students from those schools if they have better grades / interviewing skills / etc. than you.</p>
<p>Right. If there's one thing Columbia's Career Services does well, it's placing its students into i-banking and management consulting.</p>
<p>They don't do as well as, say, Stanford in the realm of tech startups, or as well as Harvard for hedge funds and private equity analystships. But for major NYC industries (journalism, media, banking, consulting, etc), Columbia is as good at placement as any other school out there.</p>
<p>Do you think Harvard is better than Columbia for hedge funds / PE, or just that the career people aren't as equipped for it?</p>
<p>a little of both. a lot of small investment partnerships are started by the parents of harvard kids and within the community, and harvard (especially with HBS) has always sort of been the center for where those top wall street funds go to find the entry-level people they need. Every time I meet some harvard college grad, it seems, they're working for "some small infrastructure fund" or "some small hedge fund" or "a very small energy fund". How did all these funds manage to find these students? They don't have the resources to recruit at a bunch of schools, so they pick... one. Or two.</p>
<p>Columbia's pretty far up the list for recruiting for small lucrative investment partnerships, but it's not at the top of the list, and that's where the biggest difference is.</p>
<p>where do you think is a better place to go if you are trying to get a job in hedge funds/ private equity/ venture capitalism, uchicago or columbia??</p>
<p>which school (uchicago or columbia) has more internships and job opportunities and recruiters with lucrative offers for hedge funds/ pe and vc?</p>
<p>thanks alot for your advice as i am deciding between the two</p>
<p>Columbia. location makes a huge difference, most non-venture-stage investment partnerships are in NYC (/Stamford/Greenwich/Westport), or at least a huge plurality of them. At Columbia you can actually do an internship with them during the school year, which is a HUGE advantage come senior year when you're making plans for post-graduation employment. One of my current roommates did an internship with a PE fund (in a research role) during the school year.</p>
<p>And how on earth can you be deciding between the two when you can at most be admitted to one at this point?</p>
<p>I stated the same thing above, living in NYC opens up many opportunities for internships that typical students don't have since they are mostly taking up summer internships. If you were to judge by networking opportunity and internship incentive Columbia can open just as many if not more doors to prestigious careers than just about anywhere else :-). Gotta love NY!</p>
<p>Columbia is a great school for i-banking. Don't worry about the other school that may appear better. Stanford sends its students to Columbia for internships in that feild.</p>
<p>guys colimbia has a financial engineering program that most other schools dont have....surely ur gonna have an edge over Wharton kids if u major in financial engineering from an Ivy...hedge funds would love to hire kids with that level of mathematical skills etc</p>
<p>Columbia is probably BETTER than any other schools for placement on Wall Street. The reason? You're in NYC. Interviewers just have to take a short subway ride to interview potential candidates(as opposed to flying out to Harvard, Yale, Princeton etc.) Furthermore, you can do internships DURING THE YEAR, gaining much more experience than someone who could only intern during the summer due to distance limitations. So, you are actually at an advantage doing i-banking at Columbia.</p>
<p>hey i have a question as well, would stern be better for internships/jobs at hedge funds than columbia?</p>
<p>stern = Wharton rejects
Columbia = awesome</p>
<p>Is Columbia SEAS students respected by Wall Street and business schools too?</p>
<p>finanical engineering at Columbia SEAS will definitley get u a job on wall street....im sure hedge funds, Private equity firms etc will value the analytical skills etc taught by finanical engineering....and on top of that, ur in NYC, right where wall street is</p>
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Bad grammar certainly isn't.
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Wow, before you start criticizing anyone's use of English, you should really think before you write. </p>
<p>To quag_mire: Thanks for the info.</p>
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Columbia is probably BETTER than any other schools for placement on Wall Street. The reason? You're in NYC. Interviewers just have to take a short subway ride to interview potential candidates(as opposed to flying out to Harvard, Yale, Princeton etc.)
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<p>This is a pretty uninformed and naive post. A 90-minute train ride or hour-long shuttle flight isn't going to deter good financial firms from interviewing at three of the best schools in the country.</p>
<p>most people don't go on to business schools after completing an undergrad degree in business. but if you go to columbia on the other hand, you may have to. but don't sweat it, firms that recruit from columbia will probably pay for your graduate education once you score a job. this isn't to say that its mandatory for you to get an mba. but you may just want to get into a field like accounting or another that requires more than just a major in econ. good luck.</p>
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This is a pretty uninformed and naive post. A 90-minute train ride or hour-long shuttle flight isn't going to deter good financial firms from interviewing at three of the best schools in the country.
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that's partly true and partly not. The big, blue-chip firms will of course always interview at the full range of elite schools, and location will not be a deterrent.</p>
<p>However, if there are small, recently-founded partnerships or investment funds or the like - many of which exist in new york - they simply don't have the time or resources (in terms of interviewers who can be spared) to go to every school in that category. They may only go to a handful of places. The firm I joined out of college interviewed at 5 undergrad schools and 5 top business schools, and devoted the most resources to Columbia because it was just a subway ride for the directors and partners. In the financial world, among smaller firms, I'd say this isn't uncommon.</p>