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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Different point of view to consider....

Map out a potential 4 yr plan for two programs.

An Economics degree at Harvard will be a different experience than a degree from a Business school program (at any university). Business schools will require pre-professional courses in Accounting, Finance, Operations, Bus Law, Marketing etc and that will include case studies and group project work. A liberal arts economics degree will focus more on topics, theories, applications and can be supplemented with quantitative analyses in econometrics etc. are will likely have more room (freed by not taking business core) for studying other liberal arts, math, or science courses.

Both are useful degrees (even if the intended career is business) but functionally they present themselves differently in the "process" of getting to the final degree.

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If the intended career is business, is it better to just go to UVA that actually has a business program? For example, if Wall Street isn't the goal, will an economics degree be as useful as a business degree?[/quote]

No, Harvard Econ will be just as good if student does due diligence to get job experience along the way.  There's also nothing stopping them from taking a few basic courses like accounting or organizational behavior or operations management.  They will easily be able to take a finance-like course via economics or to learn very useful mathematical techniques in econometrics or data analyses courses. [/quote]

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