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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]

Because it is unnecessary if you attend an Ivy/elite. Bachelors in Economics or Math or frankly any major/concentration with the the right courses can and do get top investment banking jobs or can launch a startup. For top consulting, engineering and phyics majors have been the target for many years, not Econ or business, though in general they strongly favor target schools (ivy+).  [b]Bachelors of Business Administration is a cushy degree that is not well respected at the top companies.[/b] That is why Wharton's is a BSEcon. Economics and math majors at ivy/elite do better than UNC's or UVA's undergrad school of business, which are supposedly good ones. [/quote]

Realistically all that's being filtered for is quantitative ability (which is dependent on training).

High schoolers tend to head for the major that maximizes their career prospects while matching their quant ability (highest math taken in school and math SAT).

There are studies that show that quantitative skill level and high salaries are highly correlated.  Especially for women.

It's not that business needs to be cushy or is cushy.  What the PP is talking about above is basically a crude sorting based on quant abilities, even within Ivies.

And let's get real.  Most of what people study in school, even at an excellent school, has no relevance to what they do on the job. I say this as an economics major with a top MBA.  Few of the MBAs I know have directly used anything from course material.  In fact, it's rather surprising to see who has become the most successful 25 years later.  It's certainly not the brightest.

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