<p>Which do you believe is the best undergraduate major?</p>
<p>Economics is the best for schools without business programs because it’s the most applicable to the business world and that’s why econ’s stats are so high: lots of top schools don’t have business programs.
Finance is the best at schools with business programs because usually the business program is harder to get into and provides even more applicable skills.</p>
<p>I would say economics, even if the school does have a top buisness program. If buisness is definately your route, after your undergraduate degree in economics you still have the option open for buisness grad school.</p>
<p>Finance 10 char</p>
<p>finance. There is sometimes a stigma against people who major in econ that they weren’t smart enough to get into the business school, which to me is ironic since many times econ is harder than finance. But yeah. Usually finance is better.</p>
<p>The Country’s best undergrad business school, Wharton, awards the BS econ.</p>
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<p>why do you say that? You can go to HBS with a degree in finance…</p>
<p>Both are great, depends what you want to do.</p>
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<p>That’s a historical term for that school. You can’t actually major in Economics at Wharton. Many will have a “BS Economics” but their concentration (i.e, major) will often be finance or marketing etc… with relatively little depth in economics compared to other ivies who actually major in economics. It’s just the name of the degree</p>
<p>Every Wharton grad gets a BS econ, sure there are concentrations, but every degree is a BS econ today.</p>
<p>How did the topic of this thread switch to Wharton? Who cares about Wharton?</p>
<p>So would an Econ degree from Stanford look better than a Finance/Accounting degree from UT Austin (McCombs)?</p>
<p>Yes…</p>
<p>I would say Finance because regardless of industry or sector, people specifically trained in these fields are required. Not to mention Finance is the backbone of the world economy. However, personally - if there is a school that accepts me and has a strong finance program versus a school that has a strong economics program, I’d take the finance program because of the practical value I see in Finance.</p>