<p>I know that your major isn't as important as work experience and GPA when it comes to MBA admissions, but will it be hard to find work (ibanking or consulting) for someone who wants to major in philosophy and german?</p>
<p>If you attend a top school and have a high GPA you should be OK. Nonetheless, to improve your chances you should also take supplementary courses in Econ, Stats, and perhaps Calculus if you aspire to get a job in business.</p>
<p>I think it depends on the company and it depends on the department of that company that is doing the recruiting. For example, at my company, the department I work in (finance) is specifically looking for people with accounting, finance, and economics degrees--we don't have the time to train people in these areas. For I-banking, quite often the I-banking firms will train you on the important skills once you are on the job.</p>
<p>So a german major would be fine at one firm, but not at another--it all depends.</p>
<p>If i want to go into i-banking after graduating from UC Berkeley, do you think it would be mroe desireable to employers if i had econ degree as opposed to a business admin degree?</p>
<p>getting the degree from Haas would be your best bet.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Because Haas is harder to get into. So by getting into Haas you're already a stronger applicant than those who are in the econ program. I-banks want top notch bright kids and recruiting out of Haas helps making that easier.</p>
<p>That's not to say that you cannot break into I-Banking with the Econ degree but you might have to work a bit harder.</p>
<p>thanks for the response dcfca!</p>
<p>I just talked to my uncle today, who is a CFO of a software company, and he said that i shouldnt major in business admin if i plan on getting an MBA, which i do plan on obtaining. He said that it would be a waste of 4 years because i could learn all that stuff in the MBA program. He said that i should major in something like Biology or Computer science or some major that would give me some sort of skill and then get an MBA. Do you guys think he is right? If i really want to get into i-banking after graduating from Berkeley, would a BS in Business admin look better than a degree in something like Bio?</p>
<p>is CS really considered a skill these days? outsourcing is taking over. CS seems to be more of a supplement -- if your dead-set on something besides what you want to take, you could do something along the same lines (i.e. accounting if you wanted to keep business, engineering is also a hot spot for m.b.a. apps lately)</p>
<p>I look at it this way: I'm going to have 3-6 years between undergrad and grad school during which I need to find some good jobs for work experience. Would a comp sci degree do me any good if what I really want is business training so I can work at a bank or corporation? Major in something you like the best, because you'll want to have the skills necessary to do whatever job you want to do after undergrad, like a person going into the medicine area of business would do better to have experience in that area, but if you want to go into I-banking, I see no reason to major in anything other than finance/accounting/econ/engineering/math unless you really don't like any of those majors.</p>