<p>vanillachocolate,</p>
<p>You can talk to the department directly and then decide accordingly. I just vaguely remember someone said only a few were selected but I could be completely misinformed. The difference between engineering and econ is that there are way more econ majors than any engineering majors. Also, engineering majors are encouraged to pursue graduate studies elsewhere and most NU engineering students can get into MS of their choice (Many good MS programs are not that hard to get in and most NU students can do well on GRE). So there really aren’t that many people that would end up doing BS/MS at NU.</p>