<p>Now I know double major is overrated.. but I have a genuine interest in these two fields.. guess I like math-related stuff.... but anyways, is a double in econ and CS, or perhaps econ major/ cs minor, a good combination if Im planning to go into something like quantitative finance in the future?</p>
<p>well, it doesn't take anymore than "commonsense" to figure out that is a killer combo.</p>
<p>A better combo for quantitative finance is computer science and a type of math.</p>
<p>hmm.. so if I went the Econ/CS route, would I basically have more career options.. since I could do pretty much any business-related job like finance, and also be something like a software developer too...</p>
<p>basically, what am I missing out on by not doing undergrad business?.. networking capabilities..?.. I plan to take a few business courses too..</p>
<p>how about finance and economics?</p>
<p>if your school has both economics and finance available, major in finance. the finance will be practical and the CS will show you have those quant high level math abilities.</p>
<p>finance and economics as a double major is stupid. </p>
<p>double majors should help by augmenting each other. this is why you see a lot of people with economic and math double majors, i know a few people in banking who went this route and they said that it helps because it shows you can do high level great quant math but at the same time you know some basic workings of business (a lot of them also told me to try to take finance classes, our econ majors can take courses in finance and accounting -- not a lot but some).</p>
<p>i know plenty of people that go into ibanking jobs in our business school that do doubles in accounting and finance, it's because the skills you learn in accounting are really helpful in finance, and it's great especially during interviews to be able to walk through balance sheets and financial statements with no problems.</p>
<p>but finance and economics, what's the point? you study theory and then practicality. you can argue you get some quant level courses but really if you want to show you're not just a finance major who knows math really well you should do finance (practical) with something more high level, stats, cs, math, whatever.</p>
<p>so finance + economics = bad...got it</p>