<p>Which One is more Prestigious...which one would you choose</p>
<p>i would personally take Northwestern b/c I couldn't stand going to school at NYU, when i visted, i left with a sour taste in my mind</p>
<p>i was admitted to NYU CAS and NU btw, both of them</p>
<p>you didn't answer the question - Stern is more prestigious</p>
<p>I'd take NU Econ - NU's got a better rep than NYU, and I don't like the city.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how much better NYU Stern is than the rest of the University.</p>
<p>Stern is more prestigious than Northwestern???</p>
<p>I don't agree, sorry. NU Econ is ranked like in the top 7-8 in the country. Stern is incredibly prestigious, and if your looking at finance, i think stern might be better. However, for grad placement and other stuff, Northwestern does a MUCH better job in placing its grads than does NYU as a whole.</p>
<p>Different strokes for different folks :)</p>
<p>What major do you want, OP?</p>
<p>I would go with NU Econs too...</p>
<p>definitely Stern for me in an unbiased opinion. Econ at the undegrad level is pretty pointless and a finance degree from NYU will give you everything you need to conquer the world. But northwestern would be way more fun</p>
<p>stern is definitely more prestigious. Who cares about Northwestern. It is an ok school. It doesn't stand out in many areas except for medical and journalism. Otherwise, its not really worth it.</p>
<p>Northwestern is known for its graduate business school, not its undergraduate. For business/econ there is no question that Stern is a better choice.</p>
<p>numberone - Northwestern is much better than NYU overall. Maybe Stern is really good, but NU's students are higher caliber than the average NYU students. I'm not sure what the stats/data on average NYU Stern student is, but NU is considered one of the top overall colleges in the nation. I'd be suprised if the average Stern student is better than the average NU student, atleast in terms of objective numbers. I wouldn't call NU just an OK school while touting Stern as completely superior.</p>
<p>Let me explain further my reasoning:
If your goal is to get into graduate school, go to Northwestern. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches and nights in the library. And like others have pointed out, NU is 'prestigious' for graduate school. I'm not big on the whole prestige concept academically, so I'll leave that for you all to bicker about. But I'll tell you this: learning how to draw indifference curves and utility functions isn't exactly going to expand your mind. If you are the type who wants to appease the admissions counselors by going to what they deem a prestigious school in prestigious major go for it. If you want to work for someone your whole life go for it.
If you go somewhere like Wharton finance you'll come up knowing everything to execute your own ideas and work for yourself and no one else. But with an all-prestigious Yale economics degree, combined with 50 cents, you just may be able to buy a cup of coffee. Or better yet, a nice career working 80 hour weeks in the ultra prestigious Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs sweatshops (the most prestigious sweatshops there are).</p>
<p>You can get a degree in Econ, take finance courses and math courses, and I think doing that at NU would put you at the same spot as finance from Stern. Thats what kids at most top school with just Econ programs do. Both are good programs, but since the questions about prestige, I'd say Northwestern.</p>
<p>numberone,</p>
<p>Northwestern's Kellogg is itself one of the standouts. It's a graduate business schoool but since you mentioned "medical" which is also a graduate school, I just want to point out Kellogg is consistently considered one of the top-5 business schools in the world and always ranked higher than Stern.</p>
<p>nyusternman,</p>
<p>Top consulting firms consistently regard Yale and Northwestern as two of their core schools for recruitment. Please look at the list on <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=108904&highlight=consulting+center%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=108904&highlight=consulting+center</a>
Interestingly, NYU doesn't appear as often. Your saying about Yale econ majors ending up poor is pretty baseless.</p>
<p>OP,
If your interest is econ, I'd definitely pick Northwestern. NYU's econ isn't considered all that great. However, if you want to get into finance/accounting, NYU may provide a more direct route into the Wall Street. </p>
<p>FYI, Northwestern econ department does have quite a few finance courses. A related department in Northwestern's engineering school, industrial engineering and management sciences, is considered one of the best in the nation. You can double-major which is popular at NU. Mathematical method for social sciences (MMSS) program is another excellent complimentary program pursued by some of the most mathematically talented econ majors there.</p>
<p>Exactly. If you want to work for someone your whole life, go to Northwestern. I don't want to ever work for anyone. Some people don't care to work 80 hour weeks in useless consulting/banking jobs
And my comment about econ wasn't meant to say they end up poor. You can cite whatever the hell you feel like citing and provide me with a hundred links that confirm your delusional concept of prestige, but what you learn in Stern finance will far outweigh whatever you learn in any economics program. I don't care what you have to say or whatever you claim, because I'm not going to listen to it. And I'm not even in the business world, so my claim is as unbiased as it gets</p>
<p>Also if you're going to make statements, back them up:<a href="http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/mba/rankings.html%5B/url%5D">http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/mba/rankings.html</a></p>
<p>or else you come off as an idiot</p>
<p>"just want to point out Kellogg is consistently considered one of the top-5 business schools in the world and always ranked higher than Stern."</p>
<p>The FT ranking is probably the only one where Stern shows up ahead of NU. Somehow the English just love to be different. ;)</p>
<p>Like I said, I don't care much for rankings, but at least be accurate. Nothing I've said so far has been a lie. I'd rather help these future students before they realize the mistake they have made</p>
<p>I'd personally pick Northwestern Econ.</p>
<p>But Michigan business is better than both.</p>
<p>My reason has little to do with the quality of the universities, although Northwestern is definitely a better university than NYU. I was thinking more about campus life, school spirit and the versitility of a field like Economics.</p>