<p>Hey guys. Up until now, I though I wanted to go to a business school for undergrad and go into finance, management, etc. However, now I am realizing that I really want a more well rounded liberal arts education and am now interested in economics. My problem is that I really have no clue where to find out which schools have strong economics programs other than to assume that if the school has a strong undergrad/graduate business program their economics program should be of a fairly high caliber. </p>
<p>3.8 unweighted gpa. 4.3 weighted gpa.
2190 SAT, 760 writing, 740 critical reading, 690 math
Top 10% class rank
8 AP's: 4's and 5's
Pretty strong extra curriculars. President of the business club, eagle scout, boy scout senior patrol leader, Vice president of NHS at my school, 8 years of a prestigious youth symphony in my area on French Horn...</p>
<p>I am open to anything, but so far I have been leaning towards urban schools...
So far on my list, ranked by interest: </p>
<p>University of Chicago
Northwestern
Duke
Notre Dame
Boston College
Vanderbilt
Carnegie Mellon
NYU
Washington University
Rice</p>
<p>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Chicago, Harvard and MIT are tops for econ.
Others in your list are great as well. </p>
<p>If you like a smaller school, top liberal arts colleges have great econ programs.
Pretty much all your top private and public universities will have a strong econ programs.</p>
<p>Your list is excellent. Also check out the University of Michigan, the University of Rochester and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.</p>
<p>NU is great for econ too. NYU's up there too, just not on par w/ chicago, MIT, harvard...</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna College. Liberal Art School near LA, but far enough so that you're not in LA. one of the most popular major is econ, and has different concentrations including accounting, finance, and more. Has a more practical approach to its major,w hich I think is a plus.</p>
<p>You have a good list though. I would add Amherst and Williams, just because they're at the top of LACs and regardless of how strong, you'll benefit from the recruiting that is done at these top schools just for being top schools. The business world definitely knows them.</p>
<p>Northwestern sounds like the school for you. It was the school I was in love with and Early Decision'ed to (but I didn't get in). It has easy access to Chicago, which is a center of art and, from what I've heard, is a lot of fun. It also has great placement into a lot of top business firms from investment banking to consulting to fortune 500. </p>
<p>I also got the impression that it wasn't as academically intense as Chicago and the kids did have a lot of fun. It seems like the Duke of the Midwest</p>