<p>Which is easier finance or economics?? whiy ?? thanx</p>
<p>Id say theyre about the same</p>
<p>Well it really depends where you go,</p>
<p>but usually economics is harder than finance.</p>
<p>For instance im pretty sure that
UChicago Undergrad Economics>>>>>>>>Wharton Undergrad</p>
<p>completely false.....wharton students have a HUGE amount of work.....</p>
<p>LOL at the e-c o c k fight developing</p>
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<p>...which is nothing compared to the amount of work at UChicago. Not only do you do the same amount of work at Chicago, but it is also much more theoretical =conceptual= harder for the average person.</p>
<p>Finance and business programs tend to be characterised by more voluminous workloads but less challenging actual work. Most people with the motivation can grind it out if they put in the work.</p>
<p>Economics programs tend to have less homework and group assignments, but much more analytical rigor (including more math, logic, and theoretical ideas) in the work that is assigned, and in the exams. This stuff can be done fairly quickly and easily by people who truly understand the concepts and underlying logic, but may never be completed at all by someone who just works hard without truly understanding the logic, math and analytics.</p>
<p>Which one is harder will depend on the person. Personally, I would find finance harder because I would find it impossible to motivate myself to pore over boring financial statements and grind out numbers with a calculator. Someone who is math averse might find economics harder if they are not totally comfortable with converting everyday occurences and decision making processes into algebraic functions and then manipulating those functions using integral calculus and matrix algebra.</p>
<p>Amount of time to finish problems =/= level of difficulty</p>
<p>economics isn't even that hard at the undergrad, all you need is basic calculus really. you guys make it out to be so much more epic than it really is.</p>
<p>To be fair though... anything at UoC is a lot of work :-)</p>
<p>Generally I'd say economics might be a little more difficult to grasp but it all depends on the person and the rigor of the department.</p>
<p>I don't know much about either, so what do each MAINLY focus on? For example, one does more every day life situations, rather than math problem sets..</p>
<p>I'd say the difficulty of economics at undergrad depends heavily on where you go. At McGill for example they only learn intro level calc, and there is no econometrics requirement at all (or any other quantitative course for that matter). At other economics departments, particularly in Europe, and excellent American universities (think MIT) the math requirements are far more rigorous.</p>