<p>Hello,
I am new to this site and I'm not sure if this is the correct spot to post this tread.</p>
<p>I am currently an engineering major in a community college. In high school I took a few economics courses and as part of my major I have take a few college economics courses. To make a long story short I have fallen in love with economics. There is just one problem: my school doesn't offer economics as a major. My school only offers Accounting and bussiness. </p>
<p>Short Version:
Which major is better in community college to pursue economics in a four year institution: Accounting or Business?</p>
<p>Are you attending community college to receive your associates or to transfer to a 4 year school? I myself am thinking of either going into Economics or Political science, but my community college offers neither as a “major”, however, it isn’t a big deal because I’m taking 2 years of GenEd to transfer as a junior to a 4 year school for a bachelors. However, if you just want to get your associates, you would have to decide whether or not you want to get really math technical (accounting) or not as much (business). Economics is an in-between for these two.</p>
<p>For an associate’s degree accounting sounds better. I think there are more job opportunities in accounting with that degree.</p>
<p>If you want to transfer to a 4-year college and major in economics, switch your major to liberal arts and take microecon + macroecon. This degree will show the universities you want to transfer to that you are both good at math and English. When transferring, your degree program shouldn’t be very specific. Especially, taking a whole bunch of accounting classes will hurt your chances, and most of them will not transfer (esp. California colleges, where they do not recognize accounting classes from out-of-state).
That is what my American Honors advisor in my community college told me. I bet she knows what she is talking about, because she graduated from Stanford with a major in economics.
Also, if you want your chances of being admitted to a 4-year college to get better, take the most rigorous curriculum as possible.</p>
<p>Yes I am planning on transferring to a four year institution for economics (most likely out of state, I’m in NJ).</p>
<p>I have already taken micro and macro economics and have actually received the highest grade in the class for both those classes, which was an A (I think it was approx. 3.6 or 3.7). </p>
<p>I do agree that liberal arts would be the best option, however, the only liberal arts degree from my school is with a focus in human services, so I wasn’t sure if that was a little too off topic (which consequently turned me towards accounting and business). </p>
<p>I’m going on my 5th semester as an engineering major so I have taken many rigorous math courses like pre-calc, calc I, and clac II.</p>
<p>I plan on getting an associates degree from this school and transferring with that. Credit transfer (as silly as it sounds) isn’t that big of a deal to me, as I don’t mind taking a course over again. I’m more concerned with acceptance. I’ll worry about the credits after I’m accepted</p>
<p>Hm… human services is kind of off-topic, definitely will not help you with economics.
If you worry about the acceptance and your CC offers only business and accounting, then you either should take courses that will transfer and that are important (english, one science, etc., look at pre-requisites).
If you do want that associate’s degree (why?), then you should go to a business administration major (accounting is too specific, not broad enough) and take courses that will go toward that associates’ degree + take additional less business-oriented courses that will make you look better and well-rounded (humanities, science, etc.)
My CC offers liberal arts major; if it didn’t I wouldn’t bother getting the associate’s degree and would take rigorous courses that would show my well-roundedness + strong math and two or more English courses. </p>
<p>If you go out-of-state, I would advise applying to private universities with good financial aid packages and high % of financial aid met. You can apply to out-of-state public schools, but they will certainly not give you much aid.</p>
<p>That is so nice to find somebody who majors in economics and goes to a CC (community college)! I’m in the same situation :)</p>
<p>I didn’t think thats was a related topic. It is nice to know someone is in the same situation as me though! </p>
<p>I do understand that I would need to take courses that would work toward the liberal arts/ economics major and that would transfer. I could be mislead but I always though in order to transfer out of state or to a private institution you had a better change with a degree. Do you think this is true?</p>
<p>When I did CC, BA and Accounting degrees were exactly the same. I choose accounting because I thought it sounded better and went on to BA - Accounting. A business core - AA Accounting/Business should help towards the Economics major later. If there is a difference you might find Accounting more interesting, since more math than just management classes.</p>
<p>Look up the pre-transfer requirements for the economics major at your target four year schools. That will give you the answer you need. Most likely, the courses needed will be:</p>
<ul>
<li>Introductory economics (micro and macro).</li>
<li>Calculus.</li>
<li>Multivariable calculus, linear algebra, differential equations if you are considering going on to PhD work in economics.</li>
<li>Statistics.</li>
<li>General education requirements (including English composition and breadth subjects).</li>
</ul>
<p>Choose a course of study at the CC that you can include the needed pre-transfer course work in.</p>