<p>What is special about Northwestern Undergrad? I know that Northwestern has a great MBA program(Kellog), but what makes it a buy for undergrad?</p>
<p>Are any of these majors strong at Northwestern: Engineering, Information Systems, Finance, or Economics ??</p>
<p>Schools I currently have a deep interest for: CMU, Cornell</p>
<p>According to US News 2006 ranking (graduate)
Northwestern has
top 5 programs in material science, industrial engineering and management sciences
top 10 programs in civil engineering and mechanical engineering
top 15 programs in biomedical, chemical, and environmental engineering.</p>
<p>Only weak spots are electrical engineering (#28 or something) and computer science. Otherwise, pretty strong across the board.</p>
<p>It doesn't get much better than Northwestern as far as Economics is concerned.</p>
<p>Northwestern is a strong pre-professional school, with a well cultivated alumni network to assist grads.</p>
<p>if im interested in getting an mba later on, whats are some majors that can help me get prepared at Northwestern(engineering, econ., ... they have no undergrad buz.. so are there any way i can take classes in finance etc)?</p>
<p>I believe there are some finance classes you can take. I think you may be interested in industrial engineering and management science also. You can, of course, double-major with econ. Both programs are highly ranked. You should post this question at the NU board. uc_benz seems to have done quite a bit of research in terms of NU's offering in biz/econ field. You may want to PM him. If I am not mistaken, he got accepted to MMSS (mathematical method for social science) program also. There's also business certificate available. You can research all these on NU's website.</p>
<p>northwestern offers a program/major called mathematical methods in the social sciences. It is a highly selective program and many of the top businesses in chicago recruit heavily from students in those programs. Northwestern also offers a business internship program that sounded really great when I visited the school.</p>
<p>I know three people who have dropped out of MMSS in my year alone; it's a great deal of work and many feel it's not worth the effort. I strongly advise you to steer clear of this program. Furthermore, if you plan to enter business school, I would recommend industrial engineering in the school of engineering as it is infused with a great deal of management science in addition to engineering.</p>
<p>Forget industrial engineering. My dad majored in it. As I understand it (when it was taught to him), it involves time and motion analysis to maximize employee and manufacturing efficiency. At least this was the goal of industrial engineering many years ago according to my dad.</p>
<p>Since manufacturing is a dying industry here in the US, I would think that Industrial Engineering would not be a desireable major. However, I admit, my dad's information could be very old.</p>
<p>I think industrial engineering has evolved. Or I should say, NU's curriculum has evolved, as evident by the name change; it used to be called "industrial engineering" but recently, it's been changed to "industrial engineering and management science".</p>
<p>I think all of those majors are strong.</p>
<p>I know that Economics is definetely strong, since I actually looked into that.</p>