Majors End of Year FINAL RANK

CBE/BioE is right tho... MEAM should be only a little above Systems

Why would finance be below CIS and Physics? The finance major at Penn is objectively and by far the best in the country. No other major at Penn could say the same.

^yeah whaf he said

@Hmm I’ve taken Finance 207 it’s a good class and so are the many CIS classes I have taken. It’s not worth debating which of Finance, CIS or Physics are better because everyone’s going to have different viewpoint. The good news is they are all respectable. Someone could easily counterclaim your point and say physics majors usually tend to go to grad school where if they are good can become more important to society than any investment banker Or that labor can be priced higher in the financial services industry, because of the extremely high drop out rates ... also I haven’t met a physics or computer science major that couldn’t learn finance in their free time but the other way around is almost unknown, top hedge funds do recruit STEM majors but most don’t want to get into that because it’s not as interesting as science or tech to them... M&T was sort of designed for the few hard STEM people who actually found finance interesting as well... it’s a matter of interest not ability

Besides the current world is moving towards more technological and scientific reliance which implies new businesses which implies more innovation financing.... instead of arguing which is better and developing a distaste, work together, it is a win win for econ and stem people alike

finance concentration is like 5 finance classes... computer science could be up to 25 computer science and other engineering classes... yeah i do agree advanced finance requires abstract thinking and intuition, but thats the same kind of intuition and abstraction found in any mathematical endeavor no matter how real world or theoretical it is...

im not a physics major but I know Penn Physics guys and one of them just graduated '20 and is at McKinsey... he could've conceivably done med school, a phd program, data science, finance, or management consulting and he chose the latter because he sucked at physics compared to his MIT, Columbia or Stanford bound peers... im not saying Wharton finance isn't great, its excellent, but you gotta think in what context

@haha please, I disagree I don't think physics opens all those doors, at least not traditional finance... if you want to work in finance you have to have had taken at least 2 semesters of econ and a couple Wharton finance/accounting classes... maybe quantitative finance like trading? as far as I know, Penn physics is more of a grad school or med school feeder so your friend is the exception more than the rule... data science I def believe is doable with a physics major, theres a lot of that in physics classes but traditional finance no way

@haha please: there is maybe an argument to be made that a Physics major requires more raw mental horsepower than a finance concentration.
But you can't make the argument that a physics major provides better career opportunities than Wharton finance.
Wharton finance majors go into banking, private equity as well as consulting in the hundreds. And those that minor in CS also find themselves in PM roles at tech

Yeah I concur with @Come on... the only thing to note is a Physics major is probably the best major if you want to make an impact in science, so in that sense Physics is solid prep for any kind of research career whether it be biomed or quantum computing or climate science... but Wharton finance def opens more doors in the world outside academia and science ... with all that said, I feel MBB Consulting is a totally different story altogether, there's no advantage to being in either major, in fact engineers seem to be highly preferred

honestly this is such a petty argument, these are 3 of the best degrees you can get an Ivy League school, especially Penn so we can all just relax