<p>Does Harvard have a strong undergraduate business school?</p>
<p>harvard only has one undergraduate school: the college. and there is no business major either.</p>
<p>There's Economics for anyone interested in business/finance. </p>
<p>thank you for that link, it is very helpful.</p>
<p>if i were you i would look elsewhere for undergraduate business--unc chapel hill, penn, nyu, etc. but it really doesn't matter--an econ undergraduate degree from harvard will prepare you for business school pretty darn well</p>
<p>Honestly, any degree at Harvard will prepare you for a job in i-banking, etc., leading to a MBA. Friends in Chemistry are going into business, etc. You can always take pre-professional courses down at MIT's Sloan School of Management.</p>
<p>Harvard business school in 1 of the best for MBA but I feel you should also consider Stanford Business school,Wharton,MITSloan,INSEAD.</p>
<p>Posting a link to the economics department's page, on this particular thread is actually a big mistake. Economics is only one of many departments at the College whose alumni pursue business education. It is also not a prerequisite for an MBA. Harvard physics and history concentrators have a higher business school acceptance rate than the economics majors.</p>
<p>Also, I wouldn't mix up Business and Economics. They're two very different things. If you want an undergraduate business program, go somewhere else. How about next door?</p>
<p>ThePolishDude - how did you find out about the breakdown by major that physics and history concentrators have a higher business school acceptance rate than econ majors? Is there data available to the public like that?</p>
<p>No. The Office of Career Services has it in book form in their office. But you need a Harvard ID (and even more specifically, the College or GSAS ID) in order to gain access. Furthermore, you are not allowed to take it out to borrow or anything. </p>
<p>This is why whenever I want to see pre-med stats, I need to go there myself and sit until I'm done perusing.</p>
<p>I think I have heard this information in March at Econ. department orientation during prefrosh weekend at Harvard.</p>
<p>I am so glad to see other people making this very conscious effort to try to alert others that econ != business.... at all!!!</p>
<p>If you are interested in business, you should try to at least take a couple courses that are classified under econ though (e.g. corporate finance).</p>
<p>If you really want to go into banking you can do so by going to the right school and being a history major for all that matters.
For quantitative positions you will have a LOT of science, engineering, mathematics graduates. </p>
<p>Econ isn't necessary. The only school that will give you a significant leg up is Wharton when it comes to banking as well as getting into PE out of undergrad.</p>