My impression of Emory has always been that Greek life isn’t nearly the same kind of presence there as at a lot of southern universities. Just looked it up, and it looks like the numbers who participate are nearly identical at Tufts and Emory (around 15% in recent years).
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Econ and Business are not the same…very different in fact.
Tufts doesn’t have business (as a major, some disciplines as a minor - well at least finance).
If your student wants to study a discipline of business, Emory is the only choice I believe in this case.
It depends on the area of business — finance, accounting, marketing etc. If he wants to study the discipline of finance and become a finance professor one day, I would probably recommend being an economics major over a finance major. He will get a much firmer grounding in math, technical skills, and the underlying theory.
If he wants to do accounting, then he needs to be an accounting major.
If he wants to be a quant trader, he should take math.
I wouldn’t recommend marketing as a major unless paired with something else.
If he wants to do M&A at an investment bank or work at a top management consulting firm, either finance or economics can work, although personally I think economics is viewed as tougher and more quantitative and hence a little more prestigious, but probably not enough to matter in making such a decision.
The one advantage of Emory is that he can presumably try both out and see what he likes.
In this current analysis based on faculty publishing in economics, Tufts places 48th nationally and Emory placed 55th: Economics rankings: US Economics Departments | IDEAS/RePEc.
They are not equal,for business.Emory is better.
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I was just commenting the OPs note that at Emory the student would consider a joint major with BBA.
Just noting that wouldn’t be possible at Tufts.
I don’t know the desires long term or anything else.
Unless I’m missing something, it’s not just better - it’s the only competitor in the race.
Tufts has a finance minor but I don’t see (unless I’m missing it) more business related majors or minors.
My impression is that Greek life is significantly more robust at Emory than at Tufts.
My daughter just graduated Emory and had a very social 4 years there. It’s not a party school and it’s not Greek in the Southern sense like Bama, but there are social events every weekend (beginning Thursday night) that are organized around the frats and sororities.
There are tons of Northeastern kids at Emory. Pretty much all of my daughter’s friends are from CT,NY,NJ.
Tufts is a great place. My impression is that Emory has more mainstream kids and less of a quirky vibe.
Both of my kids preferred Emory although only one chose it.
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