I got into these schools...PLEASE RANK THEM!!!

gellino
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:12:56 +0000

There is nowhere that I know of where that information is available. It is just my observations through my experience and by seeing my and my friends’ investment banking analyst classes and what schools the people there attended and then seeing where people have gone to school in my subsequent positions as well my MBA class.

Many econ majors (especially at schools without a business curriculum), but certainly not all, have working on Wall Street as a goal, or at least discover in their senior year that it is an obvious place of parlaying their education into a tangible job.

Economics certainly is a good, general training ground for grad school as well, although a majority of econ majors will get a job first before pursuing a graduate degree.

From what I have seen I would say Georgetown has a slight edge over Colgate, which has a slight edge over Hamilton, which has a slight edge over Bucknell. RPI is a good school, but one with an almost complete focus on engineering and science and wouldn’t reccommend going there for econ. I would then put GWU and Northeastern a fair bit below these first five.