<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>I came in with a lot of credits and I will be majoring in Accounting (CPA) and Finance... doing it all in 4 years (came in with 18 credits, will take 12 over summer or some way) I was going to just minor in econ but now I'm actually considering a third major. Here's what my school offers...
Entrepreneurship
Marketing
Supply Chain Management
Retail</p>
<p>What do you guys suggest and why? How could it help me by adding this third major? Pros/Cons? </p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
<p>Uh oh, we really have a Future CFO on here now everyone!</p>
<p>Triple major, Definitely a go-getter.</p>
<p>not sure if you mean that in a positive or negative way… but I’m considering triple majoring because as I said I came in with a lot of credits… In addition, my school is very flexible so adding a 3rd major would almost be like just taking 3 or 4 more classes so… why not? Also, I’m not doing this to “collect” majors if that’s what you mean by go-getter; I am passionate about business and want to learn all aspects of it, particularly marketing (other than Acc/Fin) which I think is pretty interesting.</p>
<p>The only true way to learn about the aspects of business is through actual work experience. I am not sure how a triple major is going to benefit you.
What are your career goals?</p>
<p>If you like marketing, do that.</p>
<p>Geez… ok, while I do realize the true way to learn is through actual work experience… I’m in college so I’m still learning (and got a lot of time) could you please just answer the question? If you don’t believe triple majoring is beneficial, that’s perfectly fine - just explain your reasoning and tell me what I should do with it instead. And I like marketing, but I think classes related to supply chain and EEE are pretty cool too, so I made this thread to get insights, feedback, pros/cons on these majors…</p>
<p>well i will suggest Computer Information System!!</p>
<p>Would 3 majors be impressive or would it look like you don’t really know what you want to do? I guess as long as it doesn’t add years to your school life…</p>
<p>“Would 3 majors be impressive or would it look like you don’t really know what you want to do? I guess as long as it doesn’t add years to your school life…”</p>
<p>I personally think it can make you look like you’re not sure. If you have 3 majors, you’d better be able to explain why you chose them and how you think they fit together to assist you in your career. I was an accounting/IT double major, and I was asked at every interview why I chose to do this.</p>
<p>Could you graduate earlier since you have more than enough units? That would save some money for your parents or yourself. If you really want to stay in campus for four years, get some internship or part-time relevant to your majors to fill up your time.</p>
<p>Well one reason I even considered this was because as I stated our b-school is very flexible with their curriculum so it’s not too uncommon to see triple majors. In fact I know a good number of people triple majoring (usually I see EEE/Marketing/Retail). </p>
<p>If I choose not to triple major, I’d probably end up taking “fun” classes or “interesting” classes or maybe some high upper level classes that I dont really need to take, so this is why third major is an option for me. I never thought of having 3 majors as a display of someone in uncertainty but I guess I got to consider that as well…</p>
<p>To a_mom: I have no plans on graduating early even though I could. I plan on studying abroad in addition to getting the full 4 years of college experience and believe that graduating early would actually limit my options academically, socially, and in terms of finding a solid job. It never hurts to save $ but I got a good financial package coming in and I really enjoy college anyways… so I do not consider graduating early an option.</p>
<p>BTW, I enjoy all the constructive criticism but I would really appreciate if you guys would just answer my question instead of constantly questioning my decision. I never said I WILL do it; I said I’m considering it and want to explore all my options. Try to answer my question as if I just wanted to major in business but I’m not sure which one I want to focus on among these:</p>
<p>Retail, Marketing, Supply Chain Mgmt, EEE,</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I think the reason no one has answered as you would like is because you didn’t explain how each major would help you in your professional goals or personal development. </p>
<p>Entrepreneurship is great, but do you want to work on a start up? Supply chain management is great, but it’s useless if you work in a service industry. Do you see where I’m going here? </p>
<p>The only info we have about you is that you want to be a CFO and enjoy college. You need to give us more than that.</p>
<p>With that said, if I were to recommend one of those majors to a future CFO, I would choose entrepreneurship.</p>
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Wouldn’t supply chain management and marketing potentially give you more internship opportunities than entrepreneurship and retail? Being able to get your foot in the door somewhere might be a really good justification for pursuing one major over another.</p>
<p>I’m not too familiar with the latter two, but from what I’ve seen of entrepreneurship major courses, I can’t tell what it offers that makes it a good alternative to a ‘plain’ business administration major. As for ‘retail,’ I honestly think that sounds a bit too vocational, as well as general, to be useful (how would learning about the retail industry through the ‘retail’ major help you in a way that your studies in accounting, finance, and economics would not?).</p>
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I honestly don’t think it would add that much value - studying accounting and finance together, I would think, already gives you a lot of the foundation for seeing the ‘big picture’ later. Of course, as an economics major myself, I think that econ would be a nice complement to your studies - that is, if you’re going to add anything at all.</p>
<p>Graduating early would be much more beneficial than taking on a third major. Surely you need more than one semester’s work to add another major at your university. What university do you go to, by the way? I also came in with 18 credits and it freed up enough room for me to add a single minor and take a slightly lighter workload my senior year; nothing close to enough room for another major.</p>
<p>My first school made it easy for me to have two majors. Current one isn’t but I think most BBA’s have more required classes outside of your major than the average liberal arts college does. I can’t think of much of anything when I was an Economics major that wasn’t an Econ class or a gen ed. I think I had quite a lot of electives to choose from…some had to be upper division classes. I think a minor was required but IIRC you could double major without any extra hours. With my BBA we all have to do our basic gen eds, plus the accounting principles classes and some computer intro BS class. Then there’s the intro to Finance, statistics, etc.</p>
<p>skittles: I’m going the CPA track as of now so graduating pretty much isn’t an option haha. I attend Syracuse U</p>