<p>I heard that harvard (and other ivy leagues besides upenn and cornell) does not offer undergrad buisness degree. So if i wanted to major in business in harvard (undergrad) i cant?</p>
<p>At Harvard, that is true - there is no undergraduate business major.</p>
<p>None of the Ivy league schools offer a business major.</p>
<p>^^Not true. Penn offers undergrad Business:<a href=“http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/undergrad/index.cfm[/url]”>http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/undergrad/index.cfm</a></p>
<p>The Harvard equivalent of an undergrad business major is Economics, which is the most popular major at Harvard.</p>
<p>While I agree with coureur that Economics is the closest thing Harvard has to an undergrad business degree, the two fields are very different. There are a few Econ courses at Harvard that are rather business-y (Corporate Finance, Capital Markets) but the majority of Economics classes are focused on other, more academic, topics.</p>
<p>I try telling my parents this but they dont believe it, so i would i prove it to them?</p>
<p>Have them go to this link:
[Harvard</a> University | FAS | Degree-Granting Schools, Departments & Committees](<a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/home/academics-and-research/degree-granting-schools-departments-and-committees.shtml]Harvard”>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/home/academics-and-research/degree-granting-schools-departments-and-committees.shtml)</p>
<p>Thanks smoda61 for the link! I was just wondering if the "Business Economics " graduate degree is the equivalent of a business degree? That is the only degree is see related to business in the graduate list</p>
<p>^^No. The Business Economics program is a Ph.D. program run jointly by the Economics Department and the Business School. The main graduate Business degree is the MBA offered by Harvard Business SchooL</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> Business School](<a href=“http://www.hbs.edu/]Harvard”>http://www.hbs.edu/)</p>
<p>Coureur, the University of Pennsylvania does not offer an undergraduate degree in business; you are mistaken.</p>
<p>^ wouldn’t the Undergraduate Wharton School of Business count as business?
[Wharton</a> Undergraduate Program: Home](<a href=“http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/undergrad/index.cfm]Wharton”>http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/undergrad/index.cfm)</p>
<p>I just noticed that I gave the same link Coureur gave above.</p>
<p>Regardless, there is no business major available nor are undergraduate degrees in business conferred.</p>
<p>^^Silverturtle is arguing a pedantic technicality, since the Wharton undergraduate Business program actually gives BS degrees in Economics. But if you look at the curriculum, you can see that it’s a distinction without a difference. The program prepares you for a career in business much than for a career as an economist.</p>
<p>See the areas of concentration within the program. Note no Economics:</p>
<p><a href=“http://undergrad.wharton.upenn.edu/concentrations/concentrations.cfm[/url]”>http://undergrad.wharton.upenn.edu/concentrations/concentrations.cfm</a></p>
<p>Excerpt from the link:</p>
<p>"All students in the Wharton undergraduate program major in business but select an area of concentration designed to provide greater depth in one specialty area. The concentration consists of four courses above the introductory level. The Wharton School’s undergraduate concentrations include:</p>
<p>Accounting
Actuarial Science
Business and Public Policy
Entrepreneurship & Innovation (second concentration only)
Environmental Policy & Management
Finance
Global Analysis (second concentration only)
Health Care Management and Policy
Individualized
Insurance and Risk Management
Legal Studies & Business Ethics (second concentration only)
Management
Managing Electronic Commerce (second concentration only)
Marketing
Marketing & Communication (dual concentration)
Marketing & Operations Management (joint concentration)
Operations and Information Management
Real Estate
Retailing (second concentration only)
Statistics
Transportation"</p>
<p>Repeating this line for Silverturtle’s benefit in case he missed it:</p>
<p>“All students in the Wharton undergraduate program major in business…”</p>
<p>To add to what coureur just wrote, from the front page of the link:
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<p>Ostensibly, the difference is meaningful if one wants his or her transcript to indicate that business was majored in.</p>
<p>There is absolutely no one who will be looking at a transcript from Wharton and think less of it because the degree does not say “Business.”</p>
<p>What’s your agenda, silverturtle?</p>
<p>Being a jerk, it seems. Anyway, Penn (through Wharton) and Cornell (through the Ag School), offer the kinds of business training that other undergraduate institutions with large-scale business programs offer. The rest of the Ivy League does not. Stanford and Chicago don’t, I think MIT does have a business-management major-equivalent.</p>
<p>Silverturtle, Wharton/Cornell are included in Business Week’s undergrad business rankings as well as the US News undergrad business program rankings. They’re business programs. Stop misleading people.</p>
<p>With the size of Cornell and it’s breadth of academic offerings, I was guessing that Cornell would have Undergrad Business but I could not find it on their site.</p>
<p>It’s the “Applied Economics and Management” program in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. And Cornell also, uniquely, has Colleges of Industrial Labor Relations and of Hotel Management, both of which offer very business-related majors.</p>