<p>Hi,
ill be fourth year econ major next year at one of UCs. My gpa is currently 3.15, but ill definitely bring it up to 3.2 by the end of fall quarter. My gpa was 2.8 for the first two year of the college but I raised it up to 3.15 during junior year. I served korean military for two years, and I interned at mid-large firm for a quarter, and plan to intern for fall quarter at different company.
I was wondering what kind of career path there are for econ major with 3.1~3.2 gap. I was thinking about jobs in financial sector but nothing specifically.
I will be finishing 5 accounting class by graduation and plan to take additional online accounting course to be a cpa, but not so sure about this path either.
what would be some options for me?</p>
<p>thanks in advance.</p>
<p>This is too broad of a question.</p>
<p>There are so many paths you can pursue. Remember, your degree does not always equate to your career, especially for non-technical majors like yours.</p>
<p>I can be more specific if you need me to but I would need to learn more about what your eventual goals are.</p>
<p>You can go into finance, investment banking or research with economics just to name a few. If you’re great at math maybe look into a math related career field like actuarial science since economics has to do with a lot of mathematics. Accounting is a great field to go into but a really busy profession during season. </p>
<p>I graduated with a double major in Economics and Business Finance (reason was I couldnt apply my economics major degree to anything in the real world at the time because of being more of a theoretical major, so I tacked on Finance as a practical major). and I find that those two go great together for investment banking or finance in general(I wasnt too fond of accounting)…IMO…but like what herabroadedu said you dont alway follow your career path according to your degree…Im currently in the IT field.</p>
<p>I can state for a fact that extremely few job titles on job-search websites feature the word “economics”. Outside of professors, very few people get jobs working as economists. Approximately 20,000 people a year graduate nationwide with ‘economics’ degrees, and a small percentage of them go into academia. </p>
<p>Anecdotally speaking, TONS of people (myself and the above poster included and a former college friend) with economics degrees end working in IT. I remember I once read a stat that only about 40% of people working in the IT industry had IT degrees. IT is a massive sector, but high school teachers / high school students / college admissions counselors don’t get it. And it’s certainly difficult to market to high school students. It’s not as “interesting” as advertising or journalism, or as people-focused as sales, or as big-money as the investing world. But IT does pay quite stably well: on average, definitely better than most marketing or advertising or sales jobs, similar to many accounting and in-house general business finance jobs (i.e. financial analyst for McDonald’s). Many non-technical people work in IT as either “Business Analysts” (middleman between the business people and the technical people) or as a “Project Manager” (making sure that the engineers are getting the work done on time). </p>
<p>Also, as a result of the 2008 financial crash, there are now (based on a NYT article) 35% fewer “finance industry” jobs. Lots of people, myself included, end up in IT without ever having planned on going in there. I know for myself, and many other economics / business grads, the only job offers that we got after college were for IT jobs, so we took those offers.</p>