Is NYU stern even BPE worth it?

<p>Hey Guys,</p>

<p>I recently learned about this "BPE"/ business and political economics degree at NYU stern. I looked over the curriculum and it seems really exciting. However, I can't seem to find what career the degree is tailored to. It covers, as the name states, the fundamentals of Business, Economics and Political science and teaches these three concepts from a global standpoint. Is there some career out there that would actually need such a degree? Or would it be better to just do a concentration in one of the major business categories. </p>

<p>If there is anyone who is familiar with the program that wouldnt mind answering some questions...</p>

<p>My Questions, </p>

<p>1) what career do most BPE grads enter
2) can it be utilized to land a position in investment banking
3) does the program go indepth into all of the three categories or are students just given a
shallow view of the different sections
4) how is the program's job placement</p>

<p>Thanks for the help!</p>

<p>I’m sure the program has a job placement statistic, check the career center website… and if you wanted to go to I-Banking from Stern…it would make more sense to take finance.</p>

<p>1) It sounds like it could be a little on the vague side. Employers look for specialization. Their website should have something about placement, but unless someone here knows someone who graduated from it (which is very unlikely) you can’t really expect a better answer.</p>

<p>2) Technically, you could land a position in investment banking, but you would be much better off in finance. You want to be specialized and quantitative to be a competitive job applicant. Investment banking is finance, and there will likely be a track that lines up with the facet of investment banking that you want to do. Adding something so soft and (sorry) useless like political science to the curriculum is going to take away some of the important classes that give you quant and finance skills (which would give you an edge).</p>

<p>3) You tell us. This program is not widespread, probably fairly new and relatively small, and definitely not well heard-of. A typical finance major has a pretty full plate of required classes at my university, so I would imagine the only way it could cover all three would be to water each of them down quite a bit.</p>

<p>4) Same as the first point. Look at the website. It’s not like this is some well-known program that everyone looks into.</p>