<p>When I was there, it was very possible. We had a group of students from Hong Kong and being business oriented, many of them double-majored XYZ + econ. One of the popular combo were econ + engineering (civil/industrial being the most popular). I don’t know about now. Obviously, it depends on how many credits you come in with and how many courses overlap for two majors. I’d imagine IEMS + chem E and IEMS + econ (which is popular by the way) are easier than chemE + econ. You can take 5 courses, espeically if you are incredibly bright and disciplined. The bad news is chemE has one of the most demanding curriculum at NU; it requires bio (1 quarter if I am not mistaken) and orgo (1 or 2 quarters, not sure) as foundation courses. So taking 5 courses will be a huge challenge for most. By the way, if you want to pursue the cerficiate, you have to take their prereqs in the first two years. So that would complicate the schedule even further. The good news is there’s some overlap between those prereqs and IEMS curriculum. Oh…there’s also engineering co-op program…with so many options, don’t you like NU? ;)</p>
<p>If you want to get into business in the future, having broader education is probably more beneficial; business-related courses in econ or management sciences department will be helpful.</p>