Wharton undergraduate degrees

crescent22
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:33:00 +0000

You two are stating the obvious for no real effect.

The question pertains to the same single person, interested in business, deciding whether to pursue Arts & Sciences Economics or Wharton. Presuming this person thinks they will be just as successful academically in either school (the question posed is not whether one school is easier than the other), the answer is this person will be in better shape to get a sought-after job with Wharton.

A single recruiter at a generic financial services firm looking at two resumes, same in everything but the school, will choose the Wharton resume more often. The difference does not go from 100% to 0%, but it goes from x% to some percentage below x.

The question of whether 1 poor Wharton student is better than a different but excellent Arts & Sciences student is not relevant to the consideration of which school one person decides to pursue.

More important perhaps is to question whether a specific career, such as economics research in academia, is better facilitated with an Arts & Sciences economics degree. In this case, the answer is probably yes.