<p>Is that business economic hard to find a job when I graduate? I heard from my friends that it's gonna be a lot easier to find a job if I graduate with business administration degree. Does anybody know about this? Is it true?</p>
<p>i’m not sure if it’s harder to get a job with a major in business economics, but i do know it’s harder to get into grad school with a major in business economics than if you were to have a degree in business administration. because they see it as “repetitive” whereas a major in business administration means you actually went to BUSINESS school.</p>
<p>^ this was what my econ professor told me. but from what i know (my cousin rejected ucla for usc even though ucla gave him likeee, almost a full ride), biz econ is … useless.</p>
<p>but regardless, if you want to go to business grad, you shouldn’t major in anything business related… thats the best way to goooo <– again, says my professor.</p>
<p>It depends on which school you happen to go to when recruiting and job searching comes up. If you’re talking about UCLA Business Economics than it’s very easy to find a job in California and lesser as you get out of the state. Recruiters and Employers will realize that UCLA’s highest form of undergraduate business is the business economics majors. But if you’re attending UCI which now has a Business school, business economics becomes sort of tough for job searching.</p>
<p>As for competing against jobs from a business economics vs. business administration, it’s pretty much equal if you’re looking at UCLA (biz-econ) vs. USC (Marshall). I know this because I have a friend who is an employer for the corporate Wells Fargo at Los Angeles.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/714008-why-you-should-major-economics.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/714008-why-you-should-major-economics.html</a></p>
<p>“Recruiters and Employers will realize that UCLA’s highest form of undergraduate business is the business economics majors.”</p>
<p>This thinking is flawed and unbacked.</p>
<p>Harvard’s highest form of undergraduate business is… Economics. The same goes for the other Ivies. Are you saying that employers look down upon colleges with no undergraduate business schools? If the argument is that the Ivies have top ranked MBA schools which play a part in the reputation, then UCLA’s Anderson MBA school is ranked #14.</p>
<p>See the thread I posted above to dispel these myths.</p>
<p>^ No I’m not saying that employers look down on colleges with no undergraduate business schools. I’m saying that if the college has both a Business School and Economics department than the employer will likely choose the Business School candidate over the economics major if the occupation is dealing with some sort of finance, consulting, or business affiliated occupation.</p>
<p>Actually UCLA Anderson School of Management isn’t ranked #14. It’s ranked #11 according to (US News and World Report 2009).</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>My bad I misread your post.</p>
<p>Your point is that economic is better prepared for graduate school, and it’s hard to find a job after graduating. My goal is UCI. Are business economic and economic different?</p>
<p>My point is that if you’re planning on going to UCI and you want to focus in business and want a job affiliated with business, then go to UCI Paul Merage School of Business for undergraduate. It’s tougher now for Business Economics & Economics majors to find jobs at UCI because of the newly made Business program there.</p>
<p>As for preperation for graduate school (MBA), being a business or economics major will definantly get you better prepared for it. Although you can still be able to get into graduate school without a background in business as long as you have a high GPA, work experience, high GMAT, and great application depending on which school you’re looking for.</p>
<p>Also there is a difference between Business Economics and Economics. If I remember correctly, Business Economics needs fewer calculus classes but it also needs accounting classes to be taken. While Economics doesn’t need accounting courses but it needs more calculus courses.</p>
<p>when i looked at the uci site the only business majors offered at merge was like accounting and marketing</p>
<p>Maybe you didn’t look hard enough because UCI Paul Merage School of Business hosts Business Administration, Business Information Management, Management, Accounting, Marketing, etc for undergraduates.</p>
<p>[2008-09</a> UCI Catalogue: Merage School of Business](<a href=“UCI General Catalogue Archives”>UCI General Catalogue Archives)</p>
<p>business admin major with specialization in
marketing, accounting, management (many types), and international business</p>
<p>also business information management major</p>
<p>no finance? weak</p>
<p>My counselor told me that it’s gonna be extremely competitive to get in business administration at UCI, even more competitive than Berkeley cause it only admit 150 students. Also, economic requires a lot of math which I like. And better prepared for graduate school ( someone told me this but I don’t remember)</p>
<p>economics is harder than business economics. that’s the bottom line. almost everyone i know who got a business undergrad degree are accountants… is that really what you want to be?</p>
<p>economics is the same as business economics but bizecon has 3 extra classes and sum specific electives.</p>
<p>Business Economics degree is very good, gives you the practical with accounting and the theoretical with economics. Very good when it comes to preparing you for the MBA. Econ majors can do anything that business majors can do, but business majors can’t do anything econ majors can do. For the person who posted, “that its easier to get into to MBA with a business admin, that is completely false” Engineering Majors and Economics majors are both more heavily recruited for MBA’s than Business Admin majors.</p>