REALLY URGENT AND I REALLY DO APPRECIATE YOUR HELP AND INPUT!! :
I’m currently studying finance at Fordham University but I haven’t really liked it much during my time here and I also want to get my degree from a more prestigious university, so I applied for a transfer and was accepted into NYU. But the thing is that I was accepted as an Economics major at CAS, not as a finance major at Stern. I really love NYU and it has always been one of my favorite schools, but I’m worried/anxious about transferring in as an economics major. I asked a few family members, friends, people in the financial services industry, real estate industry, and a friend who works as a strategy consultant at Accenture Consulting, (And also did an online search), and they all mainly said that a finance degree is better and has more weight than an economics degree for what I plan to do in the future, after graduation…–>
[After graduation I’m interested in going into either commercial real estate (i.e. CBRE, Starwood Capital Group, Cushman Wakefield, acquisitions analyst) or Management Consulting (i.e. Accenture, Deloitte Consulting, McKinsey). I’m also considering Investment Banking but commercial real estate/management consulting has a slight edge over banking for me. Nonetheless, banking is still in the mix]
So I’m essentially torn between the school and the major. NYU is the better school, more globally recognized, more prestigious, but I would have to change my major from finance to economics, which gives me an anxious feeling since I’d be switching majors halfway through college and also because many people have been telling me that finance is better for my plans after graduation. And then, Fordham has not really been my favorite, but I’d still be a finance major and I would still be able to graduate on time, but I might have to force myself through the remaining 3 semesters because as I said, Fordham hasn’t really been my favorite or best experience even though I am studying as the major I want–finance major (I’m suppose to graduate in Spring 2018 at Fordham, but if I transferred I would likely have to graduate one semester later based on how I planned out my schedule. Worst case scenario it would be 2 semesters later at Spring 2019, but I’m pretty certain that it should be no more than 1 semester later at Fall 2018 if I transferred to NYU as an econ major).
*And also, what is your opinion on breaking into either commercial real estate, financial services, management consulting as an economics major vs a finance major? *
***Here are some other important things to consider:
-My GPA right now at Fordham as a finance major is a 3.52/4.00…At NYU, it would “reset” since I will be transferring, and since I will be switching to an economics major. I would have to take the economics core classes, and some NYU CAS core classes, as well as 3 economics electives. I’d also have to take math for economics 1 and math for economics 2. The first which I hear is like calculus 1 with some calculus 2 And the second I hear is like calculus 2 with some calculus 3 and linear algebra. At Fordham I would have to take 3 more liberal arts classes (i.e. English literature class, fine arts class, religion class) and the remaining would be finance classes (i.e. portfolio management, corporate financial policy, financial modeling, etc).
-I finished 2.5 years so far. [going into second semester of junior year this spring 2017] I have 3 more semesters at Fordham. And I would likely have 4 more semesters at NYU (1 more extra semester, as I mentioned above)
-NYU is also more expensive than Fordham. However, I’ve been told and I feel that NYU brand name. alumni, and school recognition is worth it and the professors are also much better than Fordham. Any thoughts on this?
-I don’t have a summer internship lined up yet for this summer. If I stay at Fordham, this would be my last summer and since it’s already spring semester in January, I don’t know if I will be able to find an internship at a large firm–probably if I find one it would be middle market or boutique firm. If I go to NYU, I’d have one more summer since I’d graduate one semester later in the fall of 2018 instead of spring 2018.