<p>Which LAC's have good business programs for undergrads besides Amherst and Williams?</p>
<p>Top LACs typically don’t have business, which is seen as more of a “vocational” major. You will find Economics at Colgate, or International Management at Dickinson, to be preprofessional and still rigorous.</p>
<p>In the Bloomberg/Business Week ranking of undergraduate business programs, the University of Richmond is the top-ranked LAC (at #16). In fact, Richmond is the only LAC that shows up in Business Week’s top 100.</p>
<p>You might want to check out Washington & Lee, too. W&L is the US News #14 National LAC; it seems to have strong business programs. I don’t know why it does not appear high in the BW ranking. Maybe it does not meet BW’s criteria for the kind of program they evaluate.</p>
<p>Amherst and Williams don’t have business majors; what they have are economics departments which channel everyone’s business school and i-banking ambitions. Even Dartmouth, which has an actual business school on campus, doesn’t allow an undergraduate finance major.</p>
<p>How is Bucknell or Wellesley?</p>
<p>Some LACs with a presence on Wall Street -</p>
<p>Northeast: Middlebury, Bowdoin, Colgate, Trinity (CT), Colby, Hamilton
West Coast: Pomona, Claremont McKenna
South: Washington & Lee, Davidson, Richmond</p>
<p>If you look at Amherst and Williams list of majors you won’t find Business. So I’m not sure you understand that those students go into business from other majors. Companies that recruit there are hiring talent, not business majors. </p>
<p>There is a big difference between studying business and studying economics. Not many LACs have business schools. A few I know of include URichmond, Bucknell and Muhlenberg. If you definitely want business you may want to consider expanding your search to include some mid-sized universities as well (ex. Villanova, Fordham, Lehigh to name only a few.).</p>
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<p>Wellesley does not have a business major. Students interested in business often major in economics, but they don’t have to. My D knows a physics major who got hired by Deutsche Bank.</p>
<p>now I know what I meant was recruitment for Wall Street or I-Banking…</p>
<p>If you attend Wellesley or Williams, you can major in Art History and be recruited for IBanking… They don’t care what your major is, what they want is the prestige of your college’s “brand”. Of course, majoring in math or applied math doesn’t hurt.
But if your goal is IB, don’t major in business.</p>
<p>Did you really say “if your goal is IB, don’t major in business”?</p>
<p>Yup, because unless you’re attending Stern or Wharton (or Haas or Mendoza) you’re better off with <em>any</em> major from Georgetown, Williams, Colgate, Harvard, etc. Ideally, major in math, applied math, CS, or quantitative economics (add a finance minor if you wish).</p>
<p>Holy Cross-top25 LAC offers an accounting major in addition to economics major. HC also has good Wall Street alumni network.</p>