Placement
Economics is the most popular major in the Arts College partly because
Econ majors find good jobs. Economics majors in the class of 2005, for
example, reported an average starting salary of $46,000, as compard to
$39,500 for the entire College of Arts and Sciences.
So where do Econ BA's find work?
The largest employer of Econ grads is the financial-services industry -- including Wall Street, mutual-fund companies, accounting firms, and so on. But veterans of Cornell's Econ program also find work in many other fields.
Employers of recent Economics graduates include:
- Citibank
- Deutsche Bank
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- FleetBoston Financial
- JPMorgan
- Lehman Brothers
- M&T Bank
- Salomon Smith Barney
- UBS Warburg
- The Vanguard Group
- Bear Stearns & Co.
- Deloitte Consulting
- Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
- Group One Trading LP
- Huntington Holdings, Inc
- KPMG Consulting, LLC
- Marsh and McLennan
- PriceWaterhouse Coopers
And also:
- Anchorage School District (teacher)
- Microsoft (support engineer)
- C-Bridge Internet Solutions (E-commerce analyst/consultant)
- C-Tech.net (chief operating officer)
- Colorado Rockies Baseball Club (accountant)
- Information Resources, Inc (project manager)
- Mercury Medical (chief executive)
- MicroStrategy (consultant)
- New York City Board of Education (teacher)
- TenFold Corporation (applications developer)
- Tishman Speyer Properties (property manager)
- US Agency for International Development (research analyst
- US Army (second lieutenant)
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics (economist)
Main Office
Department of Economics
404 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y. 14853
Phone: (607) 255-4254
Fax: (607) 255-2818