<p>So, basically I'm pretty interested in learning/majoring in OR/Econ; I think I would enjoy the hard math courses (though not enough to major in it) in these courses (especially in OR) a lot and find the stuff that we do pretty interesting. </p>
<p>However, my biggest turnoff is what I would do with the major. From most people I've heard, most OR majors go into finance/banking, where people have told me that you don't really use anything beyond middle school math. I want to go into something more intellectual, yet it seems that most people who do OR use just about zero of the math that they learn. </p>
<p>So, my question then is, what opportunities are there for OR/math-inclined Econ majors who actually want to apply what they learn? So far i've heard PHD, yet i'm not really sure where that would lead to besides teaching.</p>