<p>Harvard or Wharton/Fisher? or MIT sloan?</p>
<p>Is an undergraduate business degree really necessary?</p>
<p>Say if i wanted to go into venture capital, i-banking, Citigroup/Goldman Sachs and the alikes</p>
<p>Harvard Econ Degree or Wharton?</p>
<p>Anyone else have this decision to make?</p>
<p>Thanks guys</p>
<p>Harvard doesnt have undergraduate business.</p>
<p>I would def. go with wharton. Its my favorite plus its the top ranked undergrad. bus. program in the nation.</p>
<p>I made that decision back in september, but it was Penn's huntsman thing that pulled me away. If I was just going to apply to wharton I probably would have done harvard EA</p>
<p>and I just realized that this was under the harvard board lol</p>
<p>I wanna do a double major in engineering and business at penn. </p>
<p>Faux - what advantages does huntsman (international business, right?) give over just doing business or business and engineering and what jobs would you consider if you are interested in things like huntsman?</p>
<p>well you get a degree in whatever language you want really and then a degree in business and I wanted to become fluent in spanish so I applied for it. I just like langauges but wans't really comfortable throwing myself into a major for it.</p>
<p>You need to distinguish "venture capital, i-banking, Citigroup/Goldman Sachs and the alikes." They are quite different.</p>
<p>I-banking: you're basically fine whichever one you go to. They don't expect any particular background, but you might want to take some economics classes just to have the jargon down. Keep up a good GPA, do an interesting activity that you are passionate about, and work on your interviewing skills.</p>
<p>Venture capital: I am not very familiar with this, but it is my sense that few venture cap groups hire straight out of undergrad.</p>
<p>Hedge funds/quantitative trading: a solid economics background will be much preferred to a general business background. A good econ background will include classes in <em>serious</em> microeconomics, statistics, econometrics, computer science, and ideally as much math as you can take (real analysis, mathematical probability, and differential equations are going to be the bare minimums).</p>
<p>What is the difference between Applied Math with Econ and Econ at Harvard? Also, how is Harvard's applied math department? I know that their pure math dept is strong.</p>