UT Austin BA in Economics or UVA's BA in Economics
How do companies view this degree?
Do grads land banking, consulting, or F500 finance based jobs with this degree?
Anyone graduate with this degree from either program, and what were your expirences?
Worth my time to pursue this degree?
Thanks everyone
Are you picking colleges? Why not apply for the BSchool in both cases (specifically McCombs Honors; they rule the Texas recruiting landscape)?
The degrees are respectable, people land banking/consulting jobs from each (but it will be harder in this economy), f500 shouldn't be an issue unless you are going for Google/Elite FLDP/GE FMP type positions.
I haven't graduated from either school; I am just going by reputation. I was seriously considering Cal for undergrad, and there is a similar dynamic between Cal Econ and Haas.
It is not that the programs are bad, it is just that the Econ departments at colleges with business schools suffer from the proximity of the business school. If UVa didn't have McIntire, the Econ department would probably be a semi-target...but with McIntire, why would they interview an Econ student over a business student? Econ doesn't have a quantitative edge like computer science or engineering (or at least won't show it on a resume).
UT Austin BA in economics; If you're transferring in sophomore year and end up doing 3.5+ or better in the next 24 hours (roughly 1 year: 2-12 credit semesters), you can get into McCombs business school through internal transfer. The only thing that Internal transfers need is GPA; admissions order goes from highest GPA to lowest till all the spots are filled.
These are the businesses that recruit at UT McCombs for OCR: American Century Investments, AT Kearney, Bain & Company, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Booz & Co., The BVA Group, Citi, Credit Suisse, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Dimensional Fund Advisors, Ernst & Young, Evercore Partners, Gerson Lehrman Group, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs - Specialty Lending Group, Greenhill & Co., Houlihan Lokey, Jefferies & Company, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Lazard, Macquarie Holdings (USA) Inc., McKinsey & Co., MHT Partners, Miller Buckfire & Co., Morgan Stanley, Nomura Securities, PwC, Scotia Waterous, Simmons & Co., UBS, and Wells Fargo.
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Career/Recruit/On-Campus-Recruiting/Super…
Grads don't usually land banking/consulting jobs if they're not in McCombs, since only McCombs students get OCR, not CoLA.
Worth your time to pursue if you want to internal into McCombs and then seek out a job from there. As long as you hustle and maintain that GPA (UT uses a +/- system) so you just want to make sure you keep making those A's, you'll get into McCombs if you're already in UT Austin's other colleges. Like the poster above me has stated, Econ at UT isn't looked too highly at because they'll assume you can't get into the business school. You will have to network like a boss and get people to like you if you want to get into ibanking/consulting from UT Austin's CoLA.
I have no insight on UVA's BA so I cannot help you there.
Agree with WC rainmaker, why not McIntire or McCombs over BA in Econ?
I personally don't know many kids from UVA, but I know that all my friends that have gone to UT (McCombs specifically) have all landed positions in companies ranging from GS to Boeing to P&G.
Both carry strong weight in their specific regions, so if your East Coast go UVa, Texas/South go UT. You'll be fine between the two as long as you put in the work and just don't assume that name alone will get you the job you want.
A UVA degree will get you interviews anywhere in the United States. Trust me on this.
my UVA McIntire buddies got interviews everywhere...GS, MS, F100 finance, you get the point.
High GPA -> Internal transfer route.
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