<p>Well I've been looking around at the different topics on Business vs. Econ, and I just decided to start my own question. My school offers a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Economics as well as Bachelor of Arts in Economics degrees. The Economics classes that are required are essentially the same. The Business Administration degree requires me to take general business classes while the Arts degree requires some foreign language classes as well as a minor. I'm looking at minoring in Political Science either way, but I'm wondering which would make more sense. So in the end, the classes are almost the same with a few exceptions, but the name on the degree would be different. I've read that B.S. seems to be viewed better than a B.A., but also that Business Administration less than a purely Econ degree. So is there an advantage to either one, or should I just pick one? Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>Do you want to be an economist or a businessperson? Economics is not business. It is a social science. Business people need economics to do business. Economists do not need business to study the economy.</p>
<p>Don’t take that as one is better than the other. Business people also need reading and writing to do business.</p>
<p>Well I’m wanting to major in Economics. I’m just wondering which one would be better. The economics classes are the same. So basically the only difference is the name of the degree. That’s what I’m asking about. If the courses are basically the same, which one would be better?</p>
<p>No, the courses are completely different. Business students are usually required to take 2 to 4 economics courses, that’s all. All other courses will be in business fields. As an economics major you will be following a completely different curriculum. Look up websites for schools that interest you and compare the curricula for the econ dept versus the business school.</p>
<p>It is a lot more than the name of the degree. An econ degree will prepare you for some jobs but you would likely need an MBA later on.</p>
<p>At the school I’m at, the economics classes are the same, it’s just the other classes that are a little different.</p>
<p>You should choose what you are interested in and what applies to your future goals, but a BS is usually better for job opportunities and employers usually recruit the students in the business program before economics programs when a university has both.</p>
<p>Torf, I’ve grown to dislike your responses to these econ posts greatly. I don’t know what leads you to believe that a education in economics would not be conducive to a business environment. Would economics be potentially more useful in a back end office job versus a front end office job? Very potentially so. However, your rhetoric would also imply that the only use for a history major would be to become a historian. </p>
<p>As far as your question goes, it does not matter and it should be catered to your personal interests. A B.S. might be more work with the additional minor but the business courses may provide information you find interesting. The BA might be simpler just because of the unit requirement but I think the upside to the foreign language requirement is a blessing. It looks great on your resume and opens up possibilities of working in an international environment. All in all, no one can give a good answer to this question on this board. </p>
<p>I would recommend looking up the courses required for the B.S. and seeing if the non econ courses interest you more or less courses + foreign language requirement is a better fit.</p>
<p>I can not control what you infer from my statement. I’m making no implication of an individuals ability after their degree. I am merely stating what is and what is not. Economics is not business.</p>
<p>There are political science majors that get onto business and doctors who get into politics. If you have a choice of what to take, and you know what you want to be then take the most direct route. Do you want to be an economist or a businessperson. It’s that simple.</p>
<p>If you’re at a school that had no business offering then take economics. It is the closest thing to business, but it is not. Economics is a science.</p>
<p>Princeton: Economics - the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management
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<p>Temple: Economics is the study of how we allocate resources among alternative uses to satisfy our wants. Virtually all of the public and personal issues which confront us today have an important economic component. For this reason, the economic way of thinking plays a valuable role in helping us make sense of the complex world in which we live. [About</a> the Department of Economics at Temple University](<a href=“http://www.temple.edu/cla/economics/about/index.htm]About”>http://www.temple.edu/cla/economics/about/index.htm)</p>
<p>Chicago School:The University of Chicago is home to an unusually innovative department of economics. The proportion of new ideas in economics over the last forty years that have emanated from or become associated with Chicago is astonishing. Any definition of the “Chicago School” would have to find room for the following ideas (in chronological order from the 1940s to the present): the economic theory of socialism, general equilibrium models of foreign trade, simultaneous equation methods in econometrics, consumption as a function of permanent income, the economics of the household, the rationality of peasants in poor countries, the economics of education and other acquired skills (human capital), applied welfare economics, monetarism, sociological economics (entrepreneurship, racial discrimination, crime), the economics of invention and innovation, quantitative economic history, the economics of information, political economy (externalities, property rights, liability, contracts), the monetary approach to international finance, and rational expectations in macroeconomics.</p>
<p>The unifying thread in all this is not political or ideological but methodological, the methodological conviction that economics is an incomparably powerful tool for understanding society.<a href=“http://economics.uchicago.edu/index.shtml[/url]”>http://economics.uchicago.edu/index.shtml</a></p>
<p>I don’t apologize if you can’t wrap your mind around that.</p>
<p>You should go for business Econ that’s what I did. In my school (Cal State Fullerton) the only difference is that Business Econ requires more business courses, and Econ requires few more GE courses. All the Econ requirements are the same. 21 units of upper level Econ classes. </p>
<p>Most the students in my class that is majoring in Econ are getting a minor in Business Administration. Do you plan get a MBA afterward or MS in Econ? I guess if you plan to get a MBA go with Bus Econ, if you go for MS go for Econ.</p>
<p>I’m leaning more towards an MBA, so I’m thinking I’m going to go with the Bus Econ. That’s what I was thinking of doing after really looking at it. Thanks for your help.</p>