<p>ddzai,</p>
<p>I went to Northwestern and I am biased. But NU has a well-known and top-10 economics program. Even you can’t major in business at the undergrad level, there are still a lot of business/finance related courses you can take to compliment your econ major. </p>
<p>If you are good at math (like most internationals from Asia do, LOL!) as quants are highly sought after in business; there are two great programs at NU you should seriously consider:</p>
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<li><p>Mathematical Method for Social Sciences:
<a href=“http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/[/url]”>http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/</a>
<a href=“http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/current_students/Internship%20Directory.pdf[/url]”>http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/current_students/Internship%20Directory.pdf</a> shows the interships MMSS students get in the past couple years. Elite firms know about the program and it shows.</p></li>
<li><p>Certificate program from Kellogg School of Management (new)
<a href=“Certificate Program for Undergraduates | Kellogg School of Management”>http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/certificate/index.htm</a>
This is a new program and it’s gonna be really great to have the name Kellogg on anyone’s resume. Considering the highly math-oriented prerequisites, the courses are more advanced than those found in typical undergrad business program.</p></li>
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<p>The only thing is you don’t know for sure if you will get into them. You need to apply.</p>
<p>There’s also Business Institutions minor <a href=“Harvey Kapnick Center for Business Institutions - Northwestern University”>Harvey Kapnick Center for Business Institutions - Northwestern University;
<p>And the IEMS department (another top-10 in the US) further enhances the offering: <a href=“http://www.iems.northwestern.edu/content/courses.asp[/url]”>http://www.iems.northwestern.edu/content/courses.asp</a> (e.g. financial engineering). I am not 100% sure but I think you can take some of the courses even without being in the engineering school or being that major as long as you have the prerequisite listed under your belt. This is the kind of flexibility US schools have. You may take that into consideration.</p>
<p>I don’t know how reputation compares. It’s hard to guage when it comes to this sort of thing. I do know LSE has great reputation in Asia. But Northwestern does have one of the top business schools in the world also. Anyway, one of the guys from Hong Kong got a job offer to work for Goldmans Sachs in Hong Kong when I was at NU. He was a chemE major. I am not sure if he also double-majored in econ (I don’t know him well; the quarter system at Northwestern makes double-majoring really easy).</p>