<p>i think you’re approaching this decision in a pretty poor way.</p>
<p>you’re putting yourself if a bad position if you know you want to be a business major but don’t know what you want to do. there is a great deal of variation between different majors in the business college. many marketing majors cant stand economics, and many economics majors couldn’t bear to take an accounting class (and vice versa). its not a matter of knowing you want to be a ‘business major’, and then drawing one out of a hat</p>
<p>my point being: if you really don’t know what you want to do, don’t limit yourself to the business college. its arbitrary and more or less indefensible. there plenty of other worthy colleges.</p>
<p>i’d also like to comment on some of your follow up questions: don’t pick a major because someone says it’s easy. unless you really like the content, ‘easy’ majors are a waste of your time (especially in the business college). you’re probably better off not going to college at all, depending on how you’re paying for things. but picking a fun major is all well and good, but don’t expect anyone to tell you what majors are fun and which are not fun. all of them require work, and i’ve yet to have a class who had a pizza party. whats ‘fun’ in the context of work is totally different from one person to another.</p>
<p>as for successfulness, i think maybe finance has the best track record. marketing is also excellent, but i don’t know many marketing majors.</p>
<p>just so i’m being somewhat useful here (though i think that advice could be more useful than answering the main question), i’ll give a brief rundown of how i see the different majors. note, it isn’t really a comparison, just explanations. if you comparisons, you’ll have to be more specific.</p>
<p>accounting has to do with learning rules, standards, and sort of optimizing balance sheets. they do the number crunching for a business, measuring income, profits, output, and other necessary information for a business.</p>
<p>business administration is a nonspecific degree that usually leads to low level management jobs. nothing flashy about it, and its the one that people make fun of as being for people who have no idea what they want to do with their lives but want to make it big in the business world. thats probably not very true, but you don’t really learn the most valuable skills with this degree in any case. anyways, this isn’t where the money is. if you want to be an entrepreneur, its not so bad.</p>
<p>economics deals with markets and individual decision making. maximizing outcomes is a big theme. along with finance, its the most math intensive of the business majors, though it doesn’t have to be. its a popular major for students interest in law school or grad school. not many companies look to hire econ undergrads though, because they aren’t very specialized (i will be graduating with no idea how to read a balance sheet, for instance)</p>
<p>finance as a lot like economics, but with less theory, and an emphasis on financial markets. you’ll learn about financial products, stock market stuff, and general business studies.</p>
<p>information systems isn’t really anything like the other ones. there is some programming involved, but there are a few routes you can take with this one. i don’t know much about the undergraduate stuff, but the graduate version of this deals a lot with optimizing supply chains, and doing other things to model and improve efficiency within a company.</p>
<p>management is fairly self explanatory. more specialized than business administration.</p>
<p>marketing is pretty different from the other ones, but is pretty self explanatory as well. i think you do more projects and group work in this program. i’m not really sure. i’ve just heard that its an exceptional program.</p>
<p>i have a fairly limited perspective regarding programs outside of economics, but i really don’t think theres enough overlap to consider it wise to focus on being a business major while not know what kind you want to be. i’ve never met someone who just loved doing accounting, finance, marketing, AND economics all at the same time.</p>