<p>Hello, I'm a senior looking for help on deciding where to go. I am interested in business, primarily management but perhaps finance. These three schools have become my top choices (I was also waitlisted at Penn and will probably go there if admitted). Are the undergraduate business programs really that much better than econ at Northwestern? I am not set on pursuing business right after I graduate per se, I'd just like to know how these three programs compare. Also, if I do decide that I'm not interested in business, I wouldn't have to worry if I were at NU. Thanks for your opinions.</p>
<p>Econ at NU will provide with equal (better in non-finance areas) than Stern and as good as Ross. I would pick NU over other two.</p>
<p>I think NU Econ is a more prestigious degree than the other two. However, Alexandre will disagree with me (obviously).</p>
<p>Hmm, interesting. At this point I am leaning towards Northwestern. Is NU's Econ historically an extremely competitive and, well, backbreaking program such as its engineering? I'm afraid I don't know too much about it other than that it is quite highly ranked.</p>
<p>I was a double w. psych and econ. While people did find the econ program to be challenging, I particularly did not. Surprisingly, I was scoring well above the mean in all of the weed-out econ courses. If you are smart and motivated, you will do fine.</p>
<p>In that case, I'm confident that I could do well in econ at NU. That being said, I posted the same thing on *********.com and many people were telling me to go Ross/Stern, saying that alums were highly successful right after graduation. Also, Stern's location is one thing that is hard to counter. Hmm..</p>
<p>all 3 will land u to the right place. A word about Michigan. I think Michigan is being very smart, luring top kids to come by accepting the pre-admit offer. However, I feel that a top student (who is not in this program) can make it into the ross program later on. This essentially means that this program is not as special as it appears. Ross is great. However, I think that the program itself isn't as special as people make it out to be.</p>
<p>Yes, I disagree with NUGrad. I don't think there is a significant difference in prestige between Michigan (LSA and Engineering) and Northwestern. NYU (Arts and Science) is not quite as prestigious, but it is still highly regarded. All three universities are very highly respected but none of them are in the same league as HYPS + MIT. And I don't think it is possible to compare Ross and Stern to NU because that would be comparing apples to oranges. </p>
<p>Personally, I discourage undergrads from majoring in Business. Econ is a more versitile undergraduate field of study. If you want a great overall undergraduate education and experience, forget about professional placement and go with the school that has the environment that suits your personality the best.</p>
<p>Thanks NUGrad and Alexandre, that insight helps. I read in another thread that on-campus recruitment for consulting is just as high, if not higher, than for b-schools, so that is encouraging. I'm just itching to send in my NU deposit, but I'd still welcome some more opinions.</p>
<p>A lot of people don't know NU has large number of business-related courses within various schools. Check out Business Institution Program (BIP). I believe the school of journalism has two marketing courses available to undergrad (under their integrated marketing and communication department). The IEMS department has courses like financial engineering. Also, if you are motivated and do well, you may get into the financial economics certificate program offered by Kellogg.</p>
<p>Rooney, most major management consulting firms don't really recruit that much at NYU. They recruit heavily at both Michigan (LSA) and NU and they recruit very heavily at Ross.</p>
<p>I heard the same thing that Alexandre said. NYU (include Stern) is not a target school for top c-firm. Friend of mine (he works at Mckinsey & Company) told me couple of years ago that, there are only about 15 such target schools, which include three midwest schools - Chicago, Michigan, and Northwestern.</p>