<p>I have some questions about UCI.</p>
<p>How is the Business Economics major at UCI?</p>
<p>How are the courses?</p>
<p>Would it be easy to switch to this major at SPOP if I applied as a different major?</p>
<p>If I don't switch it at SPOP, how else can I switch my major?</p>
<p>And lastly, what kind of jobs are possible with this major?</p>
<p>I've been looking through all these different threads and I haven't found a thread that answered my questions. I will continue looking and I hope I can get some answers by those who have experience. Thank you!</p>
<p>The major is okay? </p>
<p>Nothing really special, you have a huge class size. Courses are not bad, some are pretty hard (or so I’ve heard)? (Econ 122A & B?)</p>
<p>It should be easy to switch to during SPOP. There aren’t much requirements for it.</p>
<p>If you do not switch at SPOP, then just contact the appropriate dep’t from home via phone or email. Or you can probably do it from MyPortal.</p>
<p>Some of the bad things were:</p>
<ol>
<li>Huge major, which means huge class sizes. </li>
<li>Your advising/counseling dep’t won’t be too much help. Why? The School of Social Sciences is huge in terms of number of students. For me, it felt like I knew more than some of the peer advisors at the office. </li>
<li>Pretty much on your own to find networking opportunities.</li>
</ol>
<p>Job opportunities –> I assume you can go into any business-related field… what is it exactly that you want to do?</p>
<p>Source:
I was a BusEcon for 2 yrs, I’ll be transferring over to BusAdmin starting this year.</p>
<p>Thank you! Your response was very helpful.</p>
<p>I don’t really have a clear idea as to what I want to do. I have been somewhat interested in accounting, but I’m not sure that’s what I really want to do. I hear it’s hard to get into Business Admin at UCI, and even switching majors to Business Admin is nearly impossible? Correct me if I am wrong.</p>
<p>What exactly is the difference between Business Econ and Business Admin?
If you don’t mind me asking, why are you switching?</p>
<p>Take MGMT 30A (financial accounting) to help you decide if accounting is right for you. Either way, accounting is a great place to start a career or foundation, and branch out to other services.</p>
<p>The general consensus is that it is hard to get into business admin, but I am also quite surprised that I was accepted, as I didn’t expect it.</p>
<p>The difference in Business Econ and Business Admin is pretty straightforward. Think of Business Econ as more of an ECON focused major, with a couple sprinkles of business-related courses tossed in.</p>
<p>Business admin –> you will be given the choice to specialize in the following:
Marketing
Management
Accounting</p>
<p>And from there, you focus your classes based on that. But on top of that, the upper-division core of business admin covers lots of topics (intro to marketing, mgmt, etc. etc.) so you will be exposed to a whole plethora of information and you will get a better idea of what you want to do.</p>
<p>I was BusEcon with minor in accounting. Why am I switching? </p>
<p>Couple reasons:
- I do not like the classes that I have taken in Econ.
- Classes seem relatively harder and less interesting in BusEcon.
- More attention + smaller class sizes in BusAdmin
- Classes seem more interesting, and will be more beneficial in my opinion in BusAdm.</p>
<p>There are more, but you get the point.</p>
<p>Feel free to PM me if you have any more questions.</p>
<p>Bizadmin you will be taking classes in management, marketing, accounting, finance, and information systems.</p>
<p>Biz econ will mainly focus on math/stats, microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics. However, the econ department offers several finance courses. That is pretty much the only overlap between the two. </p>
<p>In terms jobs, it really depends more on your experience than your major.</p>
<p>However, being apart of the merage school you will probably get more networking gigs than being in bizecon. Also you get access to classes like accounting which are restricted to only majors/minors.</p>
<p>Congrats on being accepted into bizadmin junshik.</p>
<p>A business econ degree is basically an econ degree. They just add the “business” on the front to make it seem like it’s business related when that is clearly not the case. Expect to get jobs that have to do more with econ rather than anything business related (finance, consulting, etc.)</p>
<p>^
Really no such thing as jobs that require “more” econ. (except for government/Fed positions, which majority don’t aim for)</p>
<p>They will go after the same positions as biz admin people. </p>
<p>The only advantage with bizadmin is that they could have accounting classes under their belt and the extra networking opportunities from being apart of the merage school.</p>
<p>The advantage of econ is that it is more quantitative. They take a lot more math/stats/econometrics than a bizadmin will be taking, which looks good. </p>
<p>When you are applying for jobs, they don’t specifically ask for bizadmin. It will probably state a wide variety of majors or no majors at all. Only accounting positions require a specific major in accounting or that you have taken accounting classes.</p>
<p>I got into UCSC and Merced and a lot of csus. I want to major in a business-related field and so I’m considering management information systems at sjsu and business econ at uci. I was thinking of going to a CC then transferring to uci. Do you like your major, would you recommend it? I dont want it to be in a “dry” major you know. And uci is obviousley > than SJSU.</p>
<p>Much of the instruction in the Business Administration program is by part-time instructors rather than by full-time faculty. </p>
<p>Businesses like people with quantitative skills. The mid-career salary for economics majors is $94,900. The mid-career salary for business majors is only $70,000. (See [Majors</a> That Pay You Back ? PayScale College Salary Report 2012-13](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2013/majors-that-pay-you-back]Majors”>http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2013/majors-that-pay-you-back))</p>