Is UChicago a good school for someone looking to pursue a business career straight out of undergrad?
There is no business majors offered in UofC but it has the top Economics major that rival any business majors.
Also the business economics major which is supposed to launch fall 2018, as I conveyed on OP’s other, very similar, thread:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/2024174-business-program-at-uchicago.html
A good school for someone looking to pursue a business career straight out of undergrad – or, for that matter, almost any type of career straight out of undergrad that does not require specific professional training during college for licensure – is a school where you can learn and sharpen your ability to use various forms of analysis (both quantitative and not), to research (original and secondary), and to communicate your analysis (in writing and otherwise). Where you learn to think critically, about what others say, and about what you, yourself, believe. Also, where you can figure out what interests and excites you most and what it feels like to take a deep dive and to gain expertise in it. Those skills, plus reasonable intelligence and interpersonal skills, are a great foundation for a business career.
The University of Chicago is a great college for that, and is recognized as such all over the world. With or without a “business economics” major – at best, that’s window-dressing marketing, and at worst a real compromise in the university’s ideals. Don’t get suckered by sexy special-program names at Chicago or anywhere else. There are some unique majors out that that probably enhance one’s business career – Northwestern’s Mathmatical Methods for the Social Sciences leaps to mind, or some of the joint-degree programs at Penn – but they don’t pander to you.
Really, there are lots of great colleges for learning what you need to learn. And if you are thoughtful about what you are doing, you can make almost any college at which you end up a great college for that.