<p>I would really like to go into business after college, and I am having a hard time choosing between these schools. At Carleton and Midd I would study Econ and at IU I would be in their Kelley business school. I have been accepted into IU with an $8,000 scholarship (price around $35,000 all inclusive). At Midd and Carleton, I am a recruited athlete for football and have gotten "likely" pre-reads from both coaches. I am expecting to get about $10-20,000 at both of these schools in financial aid. Making the price about $45,000. I would like to play football in college, however, I would rather not go to a bad school or go into a great deal of debt to play (money is an issue-- I wouldn't be taking loans out but it would be a burden on my parents ). Which of these schools would be best for me to set me up for a good career in business? Thanks a lot for your help. </p>
<p>i’ll just tell you what I’ve researched for myself over the past few months.
So, a business undergrad is more marketable on it’s own then an econ one. If you do business chances are you were find a job according to your wants soon enough and will progress, and in order to improve yourself you would do MBA in the future.
As Econ, job opportunities would not be that much unless you go on to master in something(finance probably), and ultimately you can do MBA in this case too.</p>
<p>so If I were you, and Kelley was affordable. It would be my first priority. Sadly for me, it does not offer enough financial aid to international students. 
Good luck!</p>
<p>Wow what a tough choice. But all good choices. There aren’t any bad schools here, you don’t have a worry. You have a prominent undergrad biz dept in a big research u. You have 2 elite LAC. I do know of someone who turned down Harvard for Carleton, a child of a college president, so informed people know how good it is. Are you able to wait for your actual award letters? And are you saying your parents can’t afford the lac? That it is debt to pay for your college? I’m assuming you prefer the LAC education plus football.</p>
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<p>If the payscale.com data is to be believed, econ majors have higher average mid-career salaries than business majors (including finance, marketing management, accounting, and general business majors). Note that the payscale data deliberately excludes the salaries of any alumni with advanced degrees.<br>
(<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2013/majors-that-pay-you-back)”>http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2013/majors-that-pay-you-back)</a>)</p>
<p>It may be the case that this difference is more due to selection effects than to treatment effects. That is, for whatever reason, economics (or colleges that offer econ but not business majors) may be attracting more high-achieving students on average. Many very selective colleges do not offer business majors; virtually all of them do offer economics majors.</p>
<p>Broncosrule, have you visited all 3 schools? I think you’d find that the atmosphere at IU Kelley is fairly different from the atmosphere at a private LAC. </p>
<p>If you got $20k from either Middlebury or Carleton, that would make it worth the $20k premium to attend and play football. If they only come in with $10k, go to IU, not worth the extra $60k, assuming you like the fit at the schools equally.</p>