MeStudyStuff

Asked a fund manager a bit back what degrees recruiters like to see. Told him about some business schools had limited variety of undergrad programs. Like Marriot and Mendoza offers finance, but Cornell and Ross doesn't. He gave me three majors and didn't include business admin.

Now, my goal is to get into IBanking. As far as just Berkely, would recruiters prefer to hire an econ major from college of letters and science or bus admin major from Haas business school?

Always had my eye on finance, and never really looked into econ. Where can an econ degree take me as far as a job in finance?

Liquidus

What were the three majors he told you?

MeStudyStuff

Asked if their was like a hierarchy of majors, if he can list them from top to bottom. Simple, very open question, and didn't give him a list.

He just said

1. Finance
2. Accounting
3. Econ

sp1212

I was expecting much different for some reason, lol.

Liquidus

Yea I thought you were going to say engineering or something. The reason your recruiter didn't say business admin is that I'm guessing most good business schools have specific majors like finance and accounting. At Haas, the major is called business admin but you can take finance and accounting classes so you can consider it to be a finance or accounting major.

MeStudyStuff

He's a Wharton graduate and he also stated that the school name comes before the major as far as what they look for. Might have not really mattered to him because he came from a prestigious school?

Wharton undergrad econ has concentrations later in the program for finance/accounting/etc. But at the end of the day it's an econ degree right?

Do you know if somewhere on the degree from Haas, if there's a section that might say something like "with emphasis in finance" or similar?

Liquidus

I don't think so, but you could just put your finance courses on your resume.

sp1212

Can't he put it as a "concentration" in his resume?

MeStudyStuff

You guys agree, Haas is the way to go?