Is it harder to get into a decent MBA program with an economics major?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Rather than Haas? And do you need to be in a top tier Business school to become an investment banker?</p>

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<p>The truth is MBA’s major in engineering, business, finance, economics, math and pretty much every other major. Your work experience after you graduate matters perhaps most for top business schools and then comes GMAT scores and GPA. Major importance is questionable…just don’t major in Art History</p>

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<p>This. But you’d be better off asking this in the business/MBA sub forums. I don’t know how it works at Berkeley, but at Michigan, the recruiting out of Ross (the business school) is better than recruitment out of LSA (where the econ majors graduate from) and some job fairs/resume drops are only for students within the Business school. Hence they generally get more offers and it’s easier to get a top job. </p>

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If you want to work in BB IB then yeah, you do. However it isn’t a NECESSITY, as people from many different schools are found in IB. Yet if you were to take a random sampling of the analysts at Goldman or Merrill or something like that, 75% would be from Wharton+HYSPM+other top 5 business schools/top 15 schools</p>