BA in Economics or BBA?

<p>I’m harsher than Bernie! And more truthful! </p>

<p>If you do a math major and your GPA takes a hit, you’ve sealed yourself out of banking and PE. So i dont understand why you would. Especially since you don’t want to. While it’d be great for some people, making people who dislike math do math to get into finance us dumb. </p>

<p>I think he just wants bba or econ. No reason to force him to do math. Just take a couple of classes. I’d take the BBA. Not going to elaborate on this. Econ at Emory has been flat out terrible and that’s been discussed here millions of times. If it were any other school, the choice is undoubtedly Econ. But, as you’ve admitted, you’re unfamiliar with the department here. </p>

<p>Yes, plenty of 111 and 112 sections. Not a problem at all. </p>

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<p>@aluminum_boat: I was under the impression that @Joel96 was ok with a quantitative major. Do you read something different in that quote above? That’s why I asked him how comfortable he’d be adding it to either an Econ major or BBA, but I guess you missed that. And who’s making him do math? I think Joel is probably capable of taking the input received here and making up his own mind.</p>

<p>But you are harsher than Bernie, I’ll give you that. You wear that like a real badge of honour.</p>

<p>You’re talking about the original person right? Yeah, they should consider BBA or something else. However, math here has much more grade inflation and gut instructors than physics and chemistry (except once you hit like 250 or something), so I feel the beginning and intermediate courses can help pad the GPA a bit for someone who comes in with decent quantitative strength (an AP credit or two in some math). But I think you’re right. Finance is a lot like the med. schools, GPA whoring to the very end! They don’t really care about discriminating by rigor of major or anything. If you haven’t displayed aptitude in math/quantitative things before college, then don’t do that in college or pursue it with caution (anything below an A- in math 111 if you’re a noob is a sign to get out of there). </p>

<p>Regarding double-majoring, how many credit hours does it take to earn a BBA? I could find the requirements for CAS degrees on Emory’s website, but not for business degrees. If there’s a sample schedule or list of required courses somewhere, a link to it would be very helpful. Also, just glancing over the course catalog, there seems to be a good amount of overlap in the classes required for both the Econ and the Quant degrees. Is this the case?</p>

<p>Yes, and for Econ/QSS specifically, these are sample course plans: <a href=“Error 404 | Emory University | Atlanta GA”>Error 404 | Emory University | Atlanta GA;

<p>Econ. and applied math may have more overlap than regular math and econ. separately (econ. doesn’t have many or any requirements that make students take upper level maths).</p>

<p>The b-school website makes it hard to find the specific number of credit hours needed, but it was mentioned in this Emory PSA about our change to the Carnegie unit. It is toward the bottom: <a href=“http://catalog.college.emory.edu/marketing/”>http://catalog.college.emory.edu/marketing/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Apparently 128 are required now along with a nominal amount that must be completed before entering.</p>

<p>@bernie12-- that link you posted that explains credit hours, course loads, and graduation requirements is extremely helpful. Thank you so much. </p>

<p>Thanks for the info. Hopefully I’ll be able to sit down and talk with a counselor or someone when I visit next week and get all my ducks in row. And also, just FMI, how do you guys have so much info on Emory? Are you former/current students, employees? Just curious.</p>

<p>@Joel96‌ : Yes to that last question. Also, I would expect counselors to push for a BBA based on its “prestige” so I would be very careful. If you are serious, I would make sure to clearly convey that you want more from Emory than just your perfect job placement. Like you can say: “I do see myself at x after graduation, but I am good at Y and also want to enhance my background in Y. Are there any departments or routes that would help me fulfill both?”</p>

<p>If you just go to them and go…“how do I get automatically placed into this sort of job?”, they will blindly send you to the business school. I’m sure they won’t have your skill and intellectual development in mind when you inquire like that (it’s similar to how pre-health mentoring operates. They’ll try to carve the easiest, most convenient route for students, and it often ends up detrimental to intellectual development and some times screws over their chances of geeting into med. school). .</p>