<p>Hey IB buddies,</p>
<p>I've recently become aware of a new trend in recruiting by top banks, as well as admission into graduate MBA programs. </p>
<p>Is it more beneficial to get a strong Liberal Arts (I'm talking Economics, physics, math, chemistry) or non-business education (such as engineering) as opposed to an undergraduate business degree?</p>
<p>What are the benefits and drawbacks to this path? This new idea has caused a lot of confusion for me.</p>
<p>Regards in advance.</p>
<p>this is not a new trend. This is how it’s always been.<br>
Can you imagine an entire office building full of people who studied nothing but “business”. Very boring. google Calvin Trillin’s op Ed article in the New York Times, it may he to understand.(I may be wrong about NYT, it could have been WSJ).</p>
<p>It was NYT, and an interesting read.</p>
<p>I still haven’t really gotten an answer though.</p>
<p>So if I was to choose between Penn Wharton or SEAS, with the intention to get an MBA later, which would be better for me?</p>
<p>SEAS, and then some work to an MBA would take longer to be in a financial career, but would my mind be “more developed” from the engineering background?</p>
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<p>You are kidding, right?</p>
<p>All Wharton degrees are BSc in Economics.</p>
<p>No I’m aware it’s a BS in Economics with a Business concentration, as opposed to a BA.</p>
<p>Top MBA programs are 75% non-business undergrad. That’s what I’m trying to understand</p>
<p>Traditionally it has been that those people that went to Wharton undergrad did not, for the most part, get MBAs. It was considered enough that you did Wharton undergrad. It was also traditional to have a liberal arts background to work on Wall St. and go to get your MBA after working for a few yrs. Thus you have the “top programs 75% non business undergrad.” I would say that outside of Wharton and perhaps Stern, those who went to undergraduate business schools, for the most part, do not move very high up in a front office position. Again, for the most part, not all.<br>
Which brings me to say - go for what you like, at the best college you can get into and can afford.</p>
<p>From reading around my understanding is that the strong liberal arts degrees make you more well rounded because once you enter an MBA program, you basically learn anything you didn’t in a bachelors program(BA) and then some. That makes you really well rounded. I don’t know how much truth is to this but it keeps being brought up.</p>