Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Penn
Brown
Rice
Notre Dame
Emory
Michigan
All have undergrad business schools
Are these not top enough for you?

Brown does not have a business school.

Brown does have a finance concentration/major…not sure it matters if they have a business school.

Because a Business major is not as academic or intellectually curious as Economics or Mathematics. Top schools want scholars. There is a reason Business is so popular. Bc it is easier and less of an academic haul than an academic field of study.

Dartmouth does not have undergrad business degree but their MBA school has some courses for undergrads.

Anonymous wrote:Penn
Brown
Rice
Notre Dame
Emory
Michigan
All have undergrad business schools
Are these not top enough for you?

Brown does not have a business school.

Just want to add that some of the top liberal arts schools have added business as a minor. Columbia, Hopkins, Vandy, etc. These schools need to evolve and respond to customer demand. Many top kids want to study business vs pure econ or math. Business is one of the most competitive majors at top flagships and admission to top undergrad business programs is very desirable and super competitive. I was an ivy liberal arts/humanities nerd but my kid wanted business and is heading to wharton. They had no interest in top schools without business program. Second, an MBA is no longer necessary for this generation. There are different pathways to success vs our generation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Penn
Brown
Rice
Notre Dame
Emory
Michigan
All have undergrad business schools
Are these not top enough for you?

Brown does not have an undergrad business school.

That’s true. They had a certificate in Business, Entrepreneurship and Organizations through 2023 though and still have one for Entrepreneurship.

Anonymous wrote:Penn
Brown
Rice
Notre Dame
Emory
Michigan
All have undergrad business schools
Are these not top enough for you?

Brown does not have an undergrad business school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For an undergraduate education, a business major is completely useless. I don't know why people waste time with a degree in business.

to make big bucks - i know someone went to Wharton and got really nice internship and later a nice paying jobs.

Make bigger bucks in math and economics. Business is a complete waste.

DCUM. Where people saying going to Wharton is a complete waste.

Anonymous wrote:Because top schools are interested in students eager and able to engage with ideas. They do not want to be purely vocational schools for students who have no ambitions or interests beyond making money.

If your son is interested in top schools, he needs to think about what big questions he wants to study/ponder for the next four years. He'll learn how to read, write, and think critically and then can get his MBA if he wants.

Are they really though? There are so many pre-finance econ majors at these colleges and intellectuals aren’t found there as much they used to. Friends daughter transferred out of Dartmouth to a top LAC for this reason.

Anonymous wrote:For an undergraduate education, a business major is completely useless. I don't know why people waste time with a degree in business.

Useless to whom?? It's the opposite.
It's more in demand in the real world, and they get better salary right below engineering/cs.

Anonymous wrote:Penn
Brown
Rice
Notre Dame
Emory
Michigan
All have undergrad business schools
Are these not top enough for you?

MIT, Cornell, Georgetown

Anonymous wrote:I never went to college so I apologize if this is naive. My kid wants to major in business administration (goal is accounting or investment banking) and wants to go to a top university.

They’re looking at schools like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, etc. and see that they don’t have business majors. How could this be? It’s the most popular college major and some of these have business schools!

Other than MIT, Cornell, Penn….sure…all horrible….Idiots will be idiots…

A lot of top schools have undergraduate business programs:

Penn
Cornell
NYU
MIT
Michigan
Notre Dame
Georgetown
Berkeley
WashU
UVA
Emory
USC
Carnegie Mellon
Texas

Also, Rice just added an undergraduate business school. And Vanderbilt has HOD, which is similar to business. Outside of Cornell, Ivy League schools are a little more traditional and choose to stick to only offering economics degrees. As for recruitment, a business degree from NYU Stern or Berkeley Haas or Georgetown McDonough is valued as much if not more than an econ degree from Brown or Dartmouth or choose your school. But at the really elite levels, an engineering degree is probable more valuable than business/econ degrees from anywhere outside Wharton these days.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Business major is best for students at middling schools who need social mobility. If you're already at the top, there's no reason to major in something your parents could teach you one night at family dinner.

This made me laugh so hard. Who is this buffoon who keeps trolling the thread?

Says the buffoon who’s too cowardly to make an argument

Penn
Brown
Rice
Notre Dame
Emory
Michigan
All have undergrad business schools
Are these not top enough for you?