<p>I've been looking @ a lot of colleges such as harvard and they don't have a business school and majors such as finance. What do people at these schools usually study if they want to go into finance when they graduate? The only major that seems close enough to me is economics...</p>
<p>econ seems to work fine for HYP folks, although at places of that caliber, you can major in just about anything and make wall st.</p>
<p>economics...although if you're just going to get a bachelors degree, yet you want to get a specialized job such as becoming an accountant, you would want to go to a school with a business school. If you're getting an MBA, it really doesn't matter. You could take Math or Biology...it doesn't matter as long as you do well and get a good internship/experience.</p>
<p>There was an article on this in The Crimson a few months ago. A lot of students who are economics majors--and who feel like they want to get some accounting in--take accounting at MIT. There's some effort, I think, to get such a class at Harvard, but that is sort of counter to the Harvard ideas of a broad liberal arts education.</p>
<p>What about Upenn?? ... Warthon</p>
<p>Warthon!!!!</p>
<p>That's where you get a bunch of people to drive a Hummer around an Ivy League school and shoot each other and everybody else with M16s.</p>
<p>Yeah, as a Harvard alum, I can second the comment about Harvard kids and M.I.T. One classic path is to major in Econ, spend your summers on competitive internships, and take more business-specific/quantitative classes at M.I.T., especially senior year.</p>
<p>Being enrolled at Harvard gives you a shot at great internships, it seems, although I didn't go that route. There's also the Harvard Student Agencies, the people who publish the Let's Go guides. . . it's a student-run corporation with elected executive officers. If you're good enough to be elected CEO, for example, you can run a $5 million company during your senior year. . . probably as good as a business degree.</p>
<p>plenty of Harvard people end up in i-banking, belieeeve me, even without a finance major, so it can't be that big a problem.</p>
<p>Why don't you just look at top business undergrad programs versus top universities exclusively? Haas at UCB, Wharton at Penn come to mind...</p>
<p>trUUUST me, you can go to Harvard, major in just about ANYTHING, and end up on Wall Street as an I-banker. It's all about your grades, the quantitative level of SOME of your classes, and your NETWORKING! and then interviewing skills.</p>
<p>^you guys can't spell WHARTON!</p>
<p>If you want busines or consulting an Ivy econ degree is just as good or better than any business school except Wharton. The top banks and consulting firms are full of grads from HYP, Dartmouth, Columbia, Stanford, Duke, Penn, and Williams. They are looking for top students, they train on the job.</p>
<p>trUUUST me, you can go to Harvard, major in just about ANYTHING, and end up on Wall Street as an I-banker. It's all about your grades, the quantitative level of SOME of your classes, and your NETWORKING! and then interviewing skills.</p>
<p>You can go pretty much anywhere and end up at Wall Street as an IB-er. It's not a matter of where (Hahvahd), but how.</p>