Economics in CAS and Stern?

hellodocks
Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:06:52 +0000

Sure. I’m a sophomore in Stern right now, I’ll give it a shot.

CAS is a liberal arts school. You’ll approach econ there as a science, learning formulas, theory, and exploring historical trends of the discipline. It’s a great education without a doubt, but if you want to work in the financial services industry, you’ll have a tough shot cracking the bulge bracket with a B.A. in econ.

Stern is the 4th-ranked (actually 5th this year, dropped one rank randomly) undergrad business program in the nation. Anything you study will be geared practically and applicably to business; models, theory, history . . . it all goes to practical business solutions for emerging business topics and issues. Our classes for any subject incorporate everything I mentioned CAS does, yet focuses on directly preparing students for a career in the upper echelons of the business world. Most kids here don’t take econ as a primary major but as a second. It’ll be a B.S., and it’ll come from a top-5 program with a tremendous alum network on Wall Street and in F500.

If you have more questions on anything more specific, you can go to the thread I made: Current Stern Sophomore: Ask Me - New York University - College Confidential Forums; Good luck. =)