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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No business major offered at Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Columbia.  Cornell the "land grant Ivy" is an exception, and even Penn's Wharton School grants the BS in economics presumably because they don't want to embarrass their graduates with a lowly business degree.  Why don't most of the Ivies offer a business major?[/quote]

Business subjects, like engineering subjects have traditionally been considered to be “training”, not “education”. Even Harvards engineering school which was started in 1847 (over two hundred years after Harvard was established) was set up as a separate school to teach the “practical aspects” of the sciences rather than the study of science.[/quote]

+1  These are liberal arts degrees. But with an Ivy econ major, you'll typically see undergrads taking coursework in quantative finance, math, statistics/econometrics, and political economy.  Ivies with engineering schools sometimes have an industrial engineering/operations management major that has a lot of use for those who want to work in "business."  You won't see many courses in accounting, marketing, communications and other things you see in an undergrad business degree at other schools.[/quote]

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