<p>I will be starting at Sac State (CSU Sacramento) and I think I am going to have to change my major as my major of choice, business, is impacted and my gpa is going to be a bit to low to get into the impacted major. I can get lucky because Economics is not in the school of business and it is the closest thing to business. I would like to manage a warehouse at some point in my life and they have econ courses like Labor econ., Resource Econ, and Inustrial Econ.</p>
<p>Do you think it would be wise to go that direction instead and try to get into the business minor?</p>
<p>Economics is more than “business”. I think the idea of econ. being heavily business influenced comes from all the folks on Wall Street and what not. There are many disciplines within economics that really have nothing to do with “business”. </p>
<p>If you do decide to do econ. make sure you take a HEALTHY dose of Math courses (or even minor/double-major). This means doing upper division statistics and mathematics (real analysis, algebra, etc.)</p>
<p>Stop scaring the poor guy. Most economics majors don’t go beyond first or second semester calculus and a basic statistics course. Most undergraduate economics curriculums are math-lite.</p>
<p>I am going to be taking Modern Business Math; that is what they call Business Calculus at my school. I know that I will need some Math courses, and I understand the concepts better when it’s applied to business, economics, or other parts of the real world instead of just straight problems. I’m not as good at math as I used to be since my brain operation, but I did great in Statistics since it was more applied to things I could relate to. I figured that if I take a Calculus class with concepts I can relate too, I’d understand it better. Calculus isn’t required for a degree at Sacramento State, but Quantitative Analysis is and Econometrics is optional. I will take that too. I am mostly going to focus on stuff like Labor, Resources, and Cost Benefit Analysis. I also might take a course that has to do with Health Care Economics. Would it be wise to take a course like that even though it won’t count for my degree, but just to get an understanding of it in that way? </p>
<p>Is it true that most Econ. programs are Math-lite though? Sac State’s Econ. program leads to a B.A., you don’t get a choice between B.A. or a B.S.</p>
<p>I am a senior econ major at sac state. I would definitely recommend econ over business. Both would be great degrees though. Econ is a good ‘signal’ to employers (people think you are smart, even though in my opinion econ is not that hard) and also econ majors are more rare (tons of people get business degrees compared to econ) so employers have a plethora of business majors to choose from, so econ sticks out. At sac state the econ program is very very light in math - the most you need is one statistics class. I think business is the same. Econ is also a short major (don’t need as many units as some other degrees like psychology) I would recommend taking econ 1a or 1b and seeing if you like it (because if you chose business later those would go towards the major). Quantitative analysis is the most math intensive you will get in terms of required classes (all statistics - no calculus). Took labor econ, it was kinda difficult with lang - one of only classes I felt that way about…all those classes do go towards major if you are econ - they are elective…econometrics isn’t necessary to take unless you wanted to…cause it teaches you how to do all the econometrics (regressions) by hand, now days its all computer software to run regressions…some easier teachers were wang, okeefe, zhou, ford (also by far funniest teacher I’ve ever had)…overall I think econ degree teaches you to think and see the world on how it works - more so than business (but also learn on your own, cause you will not learn everything you need to know in class obviously.)… let me know if you have any other questions, be glad to help</p>