Colgate vs. Tufts for Econ major

tdy123
Sat, 04 Jan 2020 06:09:34 +0000

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I want to major in economics…

Also, I want to go to a top grad school. How do both of these place into schools like Harvard, uchicago and penn?

Also, I’d eventually like to work in finance in NYC. Which school is the best bet for that? Does your undergrad institution even matter in that case, if you go to grad school? And, if I choose not to go to grad school, which school will give me better shots on Wall Street?

By “grad school” do you mean an Econ PhD or an MBA?

If it’s an Econ PhD, then you want a very mathy econ with some cs undergrad econ program which points to Tuffs.

For an MBA, you don’t need econ undergrad.

Mathy econ helps for finance on the analytic/quant/high frequency trading side of finance.

On the consulting/Ibank side, it doesn’t hurt to have - it’ll help you put pretty charts in your presentations, but it doesn’t matter as much.

Just want a Wall Street job out of college? Fordham, St Johns, and Baruch each probably place more kids on Wall Street than Colgate and Tufts combined.