<p>What are the advantages to each of the paths. Is there anything that you can do with one that you cannot do with the other?</p>
<p>Not really.. but if the college you attend has a business school/major, you'll have more opportunities for career resources and networking, compared to econ majors.</p>
<p>Not really.. but if the college you attend has a business school/major, you'll have more opportunities for career resources and networking, compared to econ majors.</p>
<p>Um, no. That's a pretty ridiculous statement.</p>
<p>It all depends on the school.</p>
<p>An undergraduate degree in econ would qualify you to enter a masters or ph.d program in economics, either of which would qualify you to work as a professional economist, economic consultant, policy advisor, economic policy analyst, and loads of other stuff - on top of all the professions business and economics majors are both qualified for. The more rigorous quantitative content of an econ degree would also position you much better for admission to graduate programs in finance or financial economics. Econ majors score higher (on average) on the GRE, GMAT, and LSAT than business majors do, and have higher average starting salaries than business majors do. Whether that has more to do with differences in course content or self selection is not clear.</p>
<p>There are probably some advantages to studying business admin.... I just can't think of any right now. ;)</p>
<p>A business major cannot become an economist, but then again, econ majors will have to get a graduate degree for that anyway. An economics major cannot become a CPA without a MAcc degree since the certification has specific educational requirements. That's about it, for the most part.</p>
<p>Regarding career services, it depends on the school. The business kids at my school have more resources than students at the college of literature, science, and the arts.</p>
<p>Well most schools only have one career center...all students are entitled to the same resources if that's the case...but business kids will have professors that worked in finance, consulting, whatever, so they might have better connections.</p>
<p>Just to clarify - what I was trying to say is that business majors aren't eligible to study for a graduate degree in economics, unless they take extra time to take the courses they're missing. </p>
<p>And as you said, econ majors who want to go into accounting run into a similar barrier.</p>