<p>Hello, and thanks in advance for your help,</p>
<p>I've noticed how some schools have Economics in the Arts and Sciences as a BA (or perhaps a BS but mostly BA), whereas other schools, such as the one I am attending, have Economics within the Business school, with the graduate then receiving a BS in Business Administration; Economics...</p>
<p>Is there a valid difference between these two approaches?</p>
<p>1) Is one more valuable in the job market than the other?
2) Does the "business" in front of Economics make that BS actually worse than a BA? (Now that there's a lot of discussion about the merit of undergraduate business degrees)</p>
<p>I take it that it's all about what you make of it, taking ample math classes and foreign language. However, this difference has been confusing me for a while; I hope someone here as an answer for me!</p>
<p>One of the differences is that you have take a business core classes if you go to a business school, whereas a BA doesn’t require you to take these business classes (intro classes in acct., finance, management, marketing, IT, business law etc.).</p>
<p>Is this considered weaker than a pure BA in economics? I don’t plan on getting a PhD, but I want to do enough math and stats for an entry - level analyst position </p>
<p>A BA is generally a liberal arts course of study while a BS is a business program (with the core business classes as described above – and it generally also includes two math and two stat classes but you have to look at each school individually). Neither one is better or worse, they are just different. A BS may help with employment since you would be able to interview through the business school and you would have a base in the basics of business, but others may have a different opinion on that. It really depends on where your interests and abilities lie.</p>