<p>I need some help on my college search. After college I plan on attending grad school and getting a job as a financial advisor or analyst at a large corporation. I was researching colleges, and I found out that most of the ivy league schools don't have an undergrad business program. I like Emory University, and that does have one... but I also like Dartmouth and Stanford, and they have graduate business schools. However, Dartmouth and Stanford don't have undergraduate business schools, and they don't even have majors in finance or business, just economics. If I want to get a job in something financial or maybe major in finance, can I go to these schools and eventually get into their graduate business schools? If I did go to Dartmouth or Stanford, how what would I do if they don't have a business school or business majors??? Also, I know if I attend Emory I can get a BBA and attend their grad school. If I get accepted into Dartmouth or Stanford, what degree would I earn (there isn't a BBA but there is Bach. of Arts or Bach. of Sciences or whatever it is called)? And would that degree allow me to get into their grad school? And what are liberal arts, I don't understand how people who go to ivy league schools like Dartmouth can get into financial corporations when they don't even have a major in finance or business? Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>The Ivys and Stanford do not have business programs but they will get the job as analyst. In fact at schools like Harvard and dartmouth many ppl go into ibanking in analyst position despite their major. trust if you post this question in the business major section they will tell you the same thing. You are WAY more likely to become an analyst from Dartmouth or Harvard than from Emory business, but it is more investment banks and consulting firms that hire from the top schools not corporations, but starting out in consulting or ibanking can be a spring board into a corporation. Good Luck!</p>
<p>It's basically because what the big finance companies are after is brains, not trained monkeys. They want intelligent people whom they can then train.</p>
<p>Dbate is absolutely right that any Ivy/Stanford degree in anything is going to do better at getting you into a top bank than a business degree from a lesser school. An Ivy pedigree is a means of signaling to employers that you must be smart, because you got into the Ivy in the first place (numerous other ways of being stupid and getting into Ivies notwithstanding, this is a generalization that is more often correct than not--which is why all the big boys concentrate on the Ivies and peer schools)</p>
<p>Doesn't matter if they don't offer a UG B-program. Firms know that some of the smartest kids in the nation go to those schools, despite them not majoring in finance or whatever.</p>
<p>Cornell has an undergraduate business program. It is ranked 12th by US News. </p>
<p>Applied</a> Economics & Management/Cornell</p>
<p>It is housed in the College of Agriculture but it is a general business program.</p>
<p>Penn, an ivy, has the Wharton School.</p>
<p>It's almost always considered the top undergrad business school in the nation.</p>
<p>It might behoove you to major in economics if you want an analyst job. For business majors in some schools, you just learn the basics from intro classes in economics, finance, accounting and management. With an economics or even finance degree, you get a more in-depth insight that is more theoretical than practical. That would show employers that you can think.</p>
<p>Some undergrad business majors have a bad rap for being "too easy" and relying too much on textbook memorize and recite. Some engineering and history majors get i-banking offers.</p>
<p>The most marketable business and financial analyst candidates have broad undergraduate liberal arts backgrounds, rich in communication skills and connection to multiple disciplines, cultures, and issues, and then go on to get MBAs.</p>
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<p>I'd go so far as to say "always" ;)</p>
<p>Like others have said, many elite finance firms prefer econ majors from top schools like Dartmouth and Stanford over grads from almost every BBA program except Wharton.</p>
<p>Just like the other professional schools (med/law), you can major in anything and end up in i-banking and/or business school later on. Professional fields are more concerned with how smart you are, not how much you know. Hence, I personally think it's actually a waste of money to go to a top level college to learn something vocational (like business or kinesiology) over something academic (like econ or biology).</p>