<p>Anyone have any opinions on the decision? I wont be able to visit Penn for financial reasons most likely, so i'm trying to gather other's opinions on the subject to help base my decision. But will be going to admit weekend for Stanford. Thx in advance</p>
<p>the Wharton business degree is better than the stanford econ degree in that it is more practical and "hire-able" if you want i-banking etc. but Stanford is a MUCH better environment (at least it would be for me) due to less crime, beautiful area, less weekend binge drinking... Also, I kind of like having the more theoretical stuff at Stanford that may be left out of Wharton, dunno.</p>
<p>What are you going to study?</p>
<p>Atm, i'm not exactly sure what i want to study. But if i'm go to Stanford, it will most like be economics or some form of engineering. If M&T, prolly concentration in finance and/or management, and some form of engineering. Though vague, vague matches the description of what i want to do in life atm.</p>
<p>Unless you really want a degree in business, I think Stanford is a better choice. At Stanford, you can always double major in two unrelated fields. Stanford is also stronger than UPenn in almost every fields, including engineering and economics.</p>
<p>"Wharton business degree is better than the stanford econ degree in that it is more practical and "hire-able" if you want i-banking"</p>
<p>What do you mean more hire-able? Does that mean Stanford econ majors cannot get jobs? If so, I'm shocked.</p>
<p>I-Banks often don't want polished business-degree kids but non-business kids with relevant quantitative experience.</p>
<p>zephyr: trust me they want wharton kids. but imo, stanford econ vs. wharton is a debate between intellectual experience vs. practical education. stanford prepares you for life. wharton prepares you for a 90 hour work week on wall street.</p>
<p>From what I've heard, Wharton is one of the best business/econ schools in the country and I believe their econ program is even stronger than Stanford's, but that's not to say that Stanford's is bad or anything. Obviously some of the biggest names in econ (i.e. Milton Friedman) are at Stanford. Also, from the professionals I've talked to, it seems that a ugrad business degree is practically worthless, since it only shows that you know the thoery of business, but have no practical experience working with it, which is what most companies are looking for. I've been told that it makes more sense to do econ ugrad, for instance, and then get an mba...so a Stanford econ degree might be more beneficial than a Wharton business degree...</p>
<p>"Wharton is one of the best business/econ schools in the country and I believe their econ program is even stronger than Stanford's, but that's not to say that Stanford's is bad or anything."
Wharton DOES NOT have an economics program. You will NOT study game theory in a serious manner or run econometric analyses at Wharton. Wharton is business, not economics. You WILL, however, do accounting and finance. It's different. </p>
<p>Stanford ranks in the top 3 for economics. </p>
<p>Your best route to business would be Stanford econ undergrad and then an M.B.A. at a school like Stanford or Wharton.</p>
<p>From the UPenn website: "Students come to the undergraduate program at Wharton to learn about business and to gain a college education that provides them with a broad perspective on life. For these reasons, about half of the courses for the Bachelor of Science in Economics degree are inside Wharton, and about half are outside Wharton." Plus, one of the general requirements for Wharton is econ. That's what I meant. I didn't mean you get a degree in Econ from Wharton, but that you do take Econ classes as part of your time at Wharton. But I do completely agree with your last statement, zephyr151. That was exactly my point.</p>