<p>I don’t think you can minor in Business. At any rate, every school on your list has a good Engineering program and a good B-School or Econ departments. Your emphasis seems to be Engineering since you are interested in just minoring in Business or Economics. </p>
<p>One way to sort those universities in order to academic reputation is to look at the rankings. </p>
<p>USNWR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING RANKINGS:</p>
<h1>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology</h1>
<h1>4 University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign</h1>
<h1>6 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</h1>
<h1>8 Carnegie Mellon University</h1>
<h1>8 Purdue University-West Lafayette</h1>
<h1>11 University of Texas-Austin</h1>
<h1>13 University of Wisconsin-Madison</h1>
<h1>14 Northwestern University</h1>
<h1>17 Texas A&M University</h1>
<h1>25 Duke University</h1>
<h1>25 University of Maryland-College Park</h1>
<h1>25 University of Southern California</h1>
<h1>30 University of Pennsylvania</h1>
<h1>34 University of Virginia</h1>
<h1>39 Case Western Reserve University</h1>
<h1>43 Vanderbilt</h1>
<h1>60 Clemson University</h1>
<h1>71 Syracuse University</h1>
<p>USNWR UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS RANKINGS:</p>
<h1>1 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)</h1>
<h1>2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)</h1>
<h1>3 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross)</h1>
<h1>5 University of Texas-Austin (McCombs)</h1>
<h1>8 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)</h1>
<h1>9 University of Southern California (Marshall)</h1>
<h1>9 University of Virginia (McIntire)</h1>
<h1>13 University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign</h1>
<h1>13 University of Wisconsin-Madison</h1>
<h1>18 Purdue University-West Lafayette (Krannert)</h1>
<h1>18 University of Maryland-College Park (Smith)</h1>
<h1>29 Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)</h1>
<h1>29 Texas A&M University (Mays)</h1>
<h1>42 Syracuse University (Whitman)</h1>
<h1>73 Clemson University</h1>
<p>Duke, Northwestern and Vanderbilt do not have undergraduate Business Programs.</p>
<p>BUSINESS WEEK UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS RANKINGS:</p>
<h1>1 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)</h1>
<h1>2 University of Virginia (McIntire)</h1>
<h1>5 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross)</h1>
<h1>6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)</h1>
<h1>13 University of Texas-McCombs</h1>
<h1>19 University of Southern California (Marshall)</h1>
<h1>21 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)</h1>
<h1>28 University of Wisconsin-Madison</h1>
<h1>30 University of Maryland-College Park (Smith)</h1>
<h1>45 Clemson University</h1>
<h1>50 Texas A&M University (Mays)</h1>
<p>Case Western, Purdue and Syracuse aren’t ranking in the top 50 of the BW ranking.
Duke, Northwestern and Vanderbilt do not have undergraduate Business programs.</p>
<p>USNWR GRADUATE ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS (there aren’t reliable undergraduate rankings for Econ):</p>
<h1>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology</h1>
<h1>8 Northwestern University</h1>
<h1>9 University of Pennsylvania</h1>
<h1>11 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</h1>
<h1>11 University of Wisconsin-Madison</h1>
<h1>20 Carnegie Mellon University</h1>
<h1>21 Duke University</h1>
<h1>21 University of Maryland-College Park</h1>
<h1>25 University of Texas-Austin</h1>
<h1>27 University of Virginia</h1>
<h1>28 University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign</h1>
<h1>36 Purdue University-West Lafayette</h1>
<h1>41 University of Southern California</h1>
<h1>41 Vanderbilt University</h1>
<h1>44 Texas A&M University</h1>
<h1>55 Syracuse University</h1>
<p>Other schools on your list aren’t ranked.</p>