<p>Honestly, in my opinion, do what you want to do and what you are interested in. A Carnegie Mellon degree is very marketable (unless it is like History or something) and even then you have access to the vast resources available that bestows CMU with its amazing job opp. reputation. </p>
<p>Comp finance has to be applied to and you can do it from the Tepper School so my best advice to Chicagoboy is to do what you are interested in and if you are interested only in marketability, I’d go with the Tepper school because it is of top-tier quality, has a stellar reputation with recruiters, and is only getting better. Plus you can always transfer from Tepper to econ easily while the other way around is quite hard. </p>
<p>SHS kids do not get left “in the dust” though and CMU is known for tech-oriented studies but business and economics are VERY marketable and I would even say they are just as much so and by the time you graduate, may even be more so than some of the tech majors.</p>