<p>I've been looking @ a lot of colleges such as columbia 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>Guess you missed NYU.</p>
<p>wouldn't it have been a better idea to have only posted this in one forum...you've posted it in like 4. The answer is still econ.</p>
<p>top schools? how about penn....</p>
<p>How about that...</p>
<p>nyu a top school?</p>
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<p>Econ, math / statistics, any science / engineering. You can go into finance w/ a libarts background too.</p>
<p>Economics, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Financial Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Applied Math, Applied Physics, Computer Science, Math, Statistics, East Asian Languages and Cultures (for Chinese or Japanese), Psychology...and even History and African-American Studies.</p>
<p>It doesn't really matter. Some employers are just impressed with the fact that you go to Columbia and don't really care what you major in. I am a premed, but I was thinking of doing the Wall Street thing when I graduate...and the advice I got from people that are already doing it is to major in what you like...do well in it...and get as many internships as possible in the area of finance you want (during the summer AND during the year)...because work experience is so much more valuable. Sometimes if you intern in a place long enough and do good work, they flat out tell you and guarantee you that they will hire you once you graduate.</p>