How should I choose between Wake Forest and Harvard for an undergraduate business career?

At Wake, you can study business directly through the undergraduate School of Business, including fields such as finance, accountancy, management, and marketing. At Harvard College, there is no undergraduate business major, so students commonly prepare for business through economics, applied mathematics, statistics, computer science, government, or related concentrations.

Wake can be especially compelling for a student who wants close faculty relationships, a cohesive business-school peer group, and clear professional preparation from the first year. The smaller scale can also make it easier to take leadership roles in business clubs, build relationships with professors, and stand out in recruiting.

Harvard provides exceptional flexibility for students who may want to combine business with technology, public policy, engineering, the humanities, or research. Its alumni network is unusually broad across investing, consulting, entrepreneurship, technology, finance, and international business, and employers recruit heavily on campus. You would need to be proactive about assembling your own business preparation through coursework, internships, student organizations, and possibly economics or quantitative classes, rather than following a preset business curriculum.