<p>Does the quality of education/amount of material learned vary greatly by university?
How much better is an economics degree vs a business economics or a business degree?
What types of courses indicate that a particular University has a strong econ department?
For a non Masters/Phd. path, how important is it to double up with math as a major/minor?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>For economics, the material doesn’t matter at all in comparison with the alumni network of the school. Comparing it to business, if the university you’re looking at has a business school, the economics program probably isn’t “better” in any respect. In fact, I would bet it is harder to get into the business program than the economics program and that the business program brings better job prospects. Course offerings are going to be a pretty lousy way of determining the strength of an econ department, and the importance of doubling it with math is going to increase greatly with less well-connected universities.</p>
<p>The quality of an economics education will not vary greatly from school to school.</p>
<p>A degree in business administration or a specific field is entirely different from a degree in economics so know what you’re looking to study. If you want to go into business, an economics degree, in my opinion, has little value in terms of functional knowledge. You would learn ten times more from trying to run a small business.</p>
<p>Economics varies massively from school to school. At some it is extremely quantitative, at others it is less quanty (but still more math than business). Business tends to be more uniform: marketing, finance and obligatory watered-down math.</p>
<p>Which is more relevant depends on whether you would like to work as an economist/portfolio manager/researcher, or as a corporate manager/entrepreneur. The two paths are very different.</p>