<p>Okay, I'm attracted to the business major because I want to make money when I grow older. But I neither enjoy math or am particularly gifted at it. Is there a way to bypass doing mathematics (even in economics) in the business major?</p>
<p>And incidently...is the business major a vocational major like computer science? <em>Waits for feedback</em></p>
<p>You don't need math to be good at business if you're not going into quantitative fields, hedge funds, trading...etc.</p>
<p>You can definitely succeed in Investment banking, and although math certainly isnt necessary, banks and bschools like people who have had quantitative coursework</p>
<p>just improve your math....</p>
<p>if you wanna make money go into medicine...</p>
<p>intel23 you obviously have no idea about careers in medicine or business.</p>
<p>I was under the impression that most business majors don't need much math? I was looking at the requirements for business majors at the college i'm going to and the highest level of math was only Calculus. I'd be pretty happy if business requires more than that because I'm in Calc 2 right now and I don't want all the math I've taken to go to waste.....</p>
<p>I'm studying in Europe pursuing a degree comparable to a double major in Economics and Business Management.
As far as I know, in the U.S. you have more choices to select certain courses and not select others, whereas we have a more or less predetermined course syllabus.</p>
<p>Currently, the "higher" mathematics we have done so far is:
- multivariate calculus (Calculus 2?);
- probability
- statistics</p>
<p>Well, to understand multivariate calculus, you need to understand normal calculus :D It should come by instinct actually.
In the beginning I was really, really scared of all the strange symbols, but then realized that they are just there to make everything look more difficult and "mystic".
Once you've grasped the mechanism and automatized the problem-solving processes (which means that you should get easy with exercises, a bit like when you learn how to drive a car), you'll get the gut feelings and do even more challenging problems quite spontaneously.</p>
<p>For probability and statistics I'd start being inspired by one of those films like "A beautiful mind", and then read something like "Probability for Dummies".
The same rule as above applies here, too: don't care about the strange symbols and learn to "automatize".</p>
<p>As far as my course is concerned, economics is not like engineering which delves into complex geometry, imaginary numbers and other crazy stuff like that.
However, once you understand them, they can be quite interesting for your personal knowledge :P</p>