<p>I've been admitted to Rice under Econ, and I'm considering double majoring in either:</p>
<p>1) Econ and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (any idea how difficult it is to double major with engineering?)
2) Econ and Mathematical Economic Analysis
3) Econ and Managerial Studies
4) Econ and East Asian Studies</p>
<p>Would anyone know how feasible/popular any of the above double majors is? I've only been able to find statistics for up to 2007, but maybe things have changed since (especially with the economy)?</p>
<p>Probably one of the easier of them all would be East Asian Studies. You only need 30 credit hours to complete the major. Humanities are usually the easiest majors to double major in.
I have to say that Managerial studies is probably going to be easiest since a lot of the courses required are STAT and ECON.
You CANNOT major in both Econ and Mathematical Economic Analysis: <a href=“http://economics.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=48&linkidentifier=id&itemid=48[/url]”>http://economics.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=48&linkidentifier=id&itemid=48</a>
The hardest would be Engineering and Econ. Engineering BS degree requires 130+ hours to graduate. Labs and research takes a lot of time. Even if you are doing the BA program, which is easier, for engineering. It’s possible, but you have to manage your time well.
Good luck!</p>
<p>Yeah doing Econ and BioE is pretty much…well I don’t want to say impossible, but you would probably rather not do that, trust me. Doubling in any of the other things you mentioned would probably be manageable in terms of workload (except you can’t do econ/math econ as stated above), though you would have to plan pretty carefully.</p>
<p>Have you considered double majoring in mathematics? The math major here is remarkably flexible. If you plan everything out, you could make it quite worthwhile if your focus is on economics.</p>
<p>RSRM I am planning to do BIO-E and Econ myself!</p>
<p>However, when I mentioned said plan to my host(s) during Owl Days (several of whom were Chem-E, Bio-E, Etc), they laughed me out of the room. Apparently that would be the equivalent of selling my soul to Rice.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the help! My bad about the mistake with the Analysis major - anyone know how popular it’s been recently though? According to one of the annual surveys, the average salary that year for an Economic Analysis major was somewhere in the 80,000’s, which I can’t help but believe was a computational error, as every other year was in the 50k’s. Any ideas as to what might’ve happened?</p>
<p>Also, since I was accepted to the School of Social Sciences (for Econ), would I be allowed to switch to the School of Engineering to pursue solely Bioengineering (since we don’t have to declare majors until end of sophomore year)? And do double-majors have less time to study abroad (one of my MUST-DOs in college), take electives, etc.?</p>
<p>Tilgaham, that seems to be the overall gist of what I’m getting about said double-major as well… At a school like Rice, though, I feel that someone must have done it before… I just wonder with how much success/difficulty :P.</p>
<p>You aren’t locked into any school - and can take classes in any area. (Only exceptions are the conservatory and the archi program for locked programs). Although you designate a school on your application, that is just so that they can review your application with other candidates with similar interests and so that they can start you out with an advisor in your area. No problem. DD switched majors many atime before settling on one. DS switched beginning of junior year.</p>
<p>You can easily switch schools (only exceptions are the music and architecture schools). So yes, you can switch from social sciences to bioengineering if u want to.</p>
<p>If I were to switch (aka begin taking courses for engineering, etc.), would I have to declare that once before the final deadline at the end of sophomore year?</p>
<p>The Rice website doesn’t go into much detail, but anyone know how the Mathematical & Economic Analysis major been faring recently (post-2007)?</p>
<p>RSRM64: If you have declared a major (say engineering), but then junior year decide to switch to history, there are no additional forms to fill out until graduation. Simply stop taking engineering classes and take history ones. Obviously you will have to formally change it at some point, just not immediately by any means.</p>
<p>I have several Math-Econ friends who are getting top jobs. One is going to Deutsche bank, and two are going to JP morgan with 90k salaries and 15 k signing bonuses. </p>
<p>pano41, thanks for the update! That definitely sounds like they’re doing great :). I’m assuming your friends are class of 2009 or 2010 - were they double or triple majors by any chance? Would you know about anyone in the class or 2007 or 2008?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure he meant mathematical economic analysis (short for “math-econ,” note the hyphen), which I can tell you is not even close or as rigorous as an actual math major. </p>
<p>It’s different than if you’re actually double-majoring in both math AND econ.</p>
<p>I’m a prospie and a Rice lover who will most likely end up applying ED, but I would also like to double major in college. Can anyone speak of how hard it would be to double in two of the any following:</p>
<p>-Cognitive Sciences
-Econ
-Math
-French</p>
<p>I took AP French this year, so I will most likely be able to start in a higher-level French class, if that makes any difference.</p>
<p>If you come in with a lot of AP credits, it should be relatively easy for you to double major in any two of those areas. There is a Mathematical Economic Analysis major that combines both math and econ if you are interested in double majoring in those two.</p>
<p>I’ll complete AP Bio, AP Calc BC, AP French, APUS, AP Econ (both Macro and Micro), AP Chem, AP Stats, and AP English by the time I graduate from high school, assuming my senior year schedule doesn’t change. (My scores should be decent; I still have to look into Rice’s AP Credit policy.)</p>
<p>I definitely want to double major in college. I used to want to double in two completely unrelated areas, but that plan’s still a work in progress :)</p>
<p>If you want to have a college experience outside of fondren/dorm room/class bioE + anything is not doable. The first year of bioe isn’t that bad (pretty much all of the same classes the other engineers take) but then sophomore year you get into BIOE 252 and you start taking more time consuming labs (ELEC 243) and it goes down hill from there with things like independent research (that you need for grad school and you probably will be going to grad school).</p>
<p>sciencefrenchie, the econ department generally does NOT accept any transfer credit. you can only get credit for econ 211 and you have to take a placement exam for that. but this was before the department re-structured some of the classes (including econ 211). things may be different now, so check with a major advisor on that during o-week.</p>