<p>Hello everyone,</p>
<p>This is my first post an I am interested in double majoring in economics and communication studies. I want get an MBA in the future. Hopefully from top business schools (stanford, columbia, northwestern). I would like to work in the business side of the entertainment industry, specifically marketing or advertising.</p>
<p>So I have a couple of questions:</p>
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<li><p>Is it worth double majoring in economics and communication studies? (From a B- School's perspective)</p></li>
<li><p>Will majoring in communication studies alone hinder my chances of going to a top B-School and getting a marketing job in the entertainment industry?</p></li>
<li><p>Will double majoring with these majors be to difficult, TOO time consuming, significantly drop my gpa, and kill my social life?</p></li>
<li><p>Will an economics major alone still allow me to get internships/jobs on marketing?</p>
<pre><code> (So overall, getting an MBA is what I am striving for) Thanks :)
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<li><p>No. No one (not graduate schools, not employers) will care if you have a double major. </p></li>
<li><p>No. But you should take some math and econ classes to prepare you for the business school’s curriculum. Might also help you get admitted when that time comes. Take a look at a couple websites for MBA programs and see what prereqs they recommend/require.</p></li>
<li><p>Probably not. They are both fairly short majors and if you plan it out correctly (and come in with the right APs) it shouldn’t be too difficult. It will be more difficult than just majoring in one or the other though. Also keep in mind that communications (and bus-econ if you choose that concentration rather than just normal econ) are very competitive to get into, so if you are overloading courses early on you might compromise your ability to get into either major.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes.</p></li>
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<p>Everything the previous poster said is accurate. I will add to that. My daughter is graduating from UCLA this weekend. She is a communications major. As a freshman you cannot enter as a comm major. You must apply for the major after you have completed 45 UCLA units. So usually at the start of your sophomore year. It is very competitive. My daughter had a 3.9 gpa and got in and friends of hers with 3.7 did not get in. That is your UCLA gpa, not what you have from High School. </p>
<p>My daughter had a total if 4 internships while at UCLA. Beginning in the spring of her sophomore year she started scheduling all of her classes on T/Th only so she could do internships in LA. The most recent two were at internationally recognized Advertising companies. These internships are what will help her get a job. She has already had 5 interviews and they really didn’t care what her major was, but more what her internship experiences were. It is not the major that gets you the job, but the person, and the experience you have. So regardless of which major you choose, or if you double major, work with your major advisors and join your major’s networking organizations and get those internships going while a student. You get units for doing internships and the experience with them will help tremendously in your job search.</p>