<p>Yeah but you can major in Econ at NU and your chances at a top job are still going to be better than than a person with a business degree at Emory. The myth that you need to go to an undergrad business school to get a top job is just absolutely false.</p>
<p>If you want to get a top business job you get an MBA. If you do well at Emory as an undergrad business major, you will have just as good a chance as if you majored in ECON at Northwestern of getting into a great business grad program. More importantly, an Emory business degree (just a BBA that is) holds a lot of weight in the South, more so than Northwestern degree, and lets face it, opportunities in a city like ATL are more than adequate.</p>
<p>Which one of these schools would carry the most weight nationally (im from Long Island and would like to move back to NYC after I graduate)</p>
<p>Georgetown in the Northeast, atleast in MA, is most prestigious. However, if you plan to go to graduate school, undergrad prestige is meaningless.</p>
<p>People get top jobs after undergrad, you don’t need an MBA. MBAs require work experience anyway. As an MBA from Columbia who worked at a top tier consulting firm, I can tell you Northwestern is the winner here although the other two are good. Emory is great in the south, but Northwestern has a more national reputation, especially in NYC.</p>
<p>not to be hating on anyone at NU but generally would you all consider this school to be the “nerdiest” (most academically oriented/focused/damnding i guess) of these three?</p>
<p>Georgetown is probably as–if not more–acadmically oriented, but they have a work hard/play hard mentality. NU doesn’t have that sort of party scence. I don’t know about Emory.</p>
<p>Some CC members have put out lists of what top consulting/business firms consider as “core schools” and Northwestern appears more often than Emory. So that sorta answers your question about job placement. As far as the undergrad business ranking goes, keep in mind many prestigious biz schools don’t have undergrad programs. This makes the prestige for undergrad programs very top-heavy; you have a few (Stern/Wharton/Ross/Berkeley) at the top and after that, it’s a significant drop and just “everybody else”.</p>
<p>NU is more known for preprofessionalism than nerdiness, which applies more to its neighbor 20 miles south (U Chicago). It has more ranked departments than other two but it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s more “academically oriented”. Unless a person went to undergrad at two or all three of them, I don’t think he/she can say which one is more demanding. Even within NU, the difficulty varies significantly among different majors. ChemE is a lot harder than envE within the engineering school. The engineering school is more demanding than music or education & social policy schools. The average GPA also varies quite a bit among the six schools, ranging from 3.1/3.2 for engineering to 3.6/3.7 (no kidding) for music. As far as econ goes, it depends on which classes you take though in general it’s never considered a walk in the park but it surely isn’t as bad as ChemE/EE.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the input…Sam, are you going to NU?</p>
<p>i believe USNews peer score is more a rating of overall academics, as viewed by insiders, not exactly prestige.</p>
<p>No. I wish I were 18 again. I am an alum.</p>
<p>Three awesome cities, from what I’ve heard, and each school is in a high-quality area. I’m not sure you can make a “wrong” choice. One of my friends claims Emory’s A&S (Arts and Sciences) School sucks, but I don’t buy it.<br>
I have heard nothing but great things about Georgetown - people claim the academics are tops, the location is perfect, facilitating nightlife and off-campus activities, the name sounds awesome, and connections as far as internships and career-building are second-to-none. If anything, one of Georgetown’s faults is that the students are “too concerned” with landing a high-paying job and are “too career-oriented”.</p>
<p>I am familiar with Northwestern and know that the business program is elite. Period.</p>