Are there too much Econ majors? If I wanted to major in Economics, could I: get my bachelors, work/study for CFA and then get my MBA or masters in economics/finance? How does the job market look for finance analysts?
At Ivy leagues, economics is a popular major. At lower-tiered universities, you do not find too many students in economics; usually far more students in business schools.
Sure, you can do economics for your undergraduate for CFA, and then MBA. Just make sure that you also take a few courses in business school for the CFA exam: financial accounting, corporate finance, investments, fixed-income, and derivatives, etc.
Finance is a major functional field in business. From a long term perspective, this area hires many people, including financial analysts. Overall, the job growth rate is good and healthy, subject to short term fluctuation.
^^^I have seen plenty of economics majors at non-Ivy level schools as well.
@happy1 is absolutely correct. Econ is both popular at many schools and quite useful. It’s just a social science and has no mystical powers that make it Ivy exclusive. As for the needless put down of business curriculum, I’m sure Penn, ND, BC, Cornell and countless others would be surprised to learn that they are lower tier.
OP was asking whether there are too many econ majors. It appears to me that he/she may not want to do an econ major if there are already too many of them doing it. I thus stated “at lowed-tiered universities, you do not find too many students in economics.”
Economics is a good major; it trains students how to think in a very logical way. If one is interested in it, that person ought to pursue it. My S is actually majoring in econ and math.
Now let me re-examine my statement. At ivy-level universities where they do not have a business school, you usually see about 10-20% of undergraduates majoring in econ. How about at state flagship research-1 universities where most of them have a business school? Now you see about 10-20% of undergraduates in their business schools. The number of econ majors in these school drops to about 2-4%. I think my statement of “not too many students in economics” is not too far away from the truth.
When I used the word “lower-tiered,” I did not have Penn, ND, BC, or Cornell in mind. Furthermore, Penn and Cornell are Ivies.