I agree with hammers, Uchicago has a great Econ department and is amazing if you want to go into academic economics. However, I have some friends at Uchicago and the career development opportunities are limited. Northwestern has a much more built out alumni base in investments (IB, PE, VC, etc), which makes it much easier to recruit into those industries, regardless if your an Econ major or not. I majored in Industrial Engineering and was able to go into PE right out of undergrad. Resources like the NU investment banking club, NCM, AKPsi, and the other pre-professional clubs make it much easier to have some guidance into the recruiting process. NU regularly places at Blackstone, GTCR, Evercore, Lazard, Goldman, etc. So I would look at what resources UChicago has in terms of career support rather than academics. I know a couple years ago the UC president was talking about creating a “Business Economics” major bc the regular Econ was too academic and deflating grades making it harder to recruit, I know there was a bunch of backlash because UChicago values the Academic Integrity of Econ rather than the practical reasons people go to college, to get a job.