<p>Anyone have experience as an economics major?</p>
<p>Can you describe the workload, the classes, the profs, anything actually just to give some insight.</p>
<p>ANy experience with internships? How often did you work? What did the internship pay?</p>
<p>Also if anyone has graduated, did you find it easy to find a good well paying job?</p>
<p>Do the economics/math majors at CAS compete with the Stern kids or Stern is held in a much higher regard?</p>
<p>I'd be interested in this as well...</p>
<p>any1........?</p>
<p>I am in the same boat (transfering in next fall) and from what I have read on this board....you still compete well with the Stern kids. I spoke to a couple of kids that were econ/math majors and landed ibanking internships with lehman and goldman. It's a long and hard road (harder than if you were at Stern) but you still get to go to all of the recruiting functions so your exposure is the same. Also if you are going in as a freshman and after a year or two you find that you would rather be at Stern you can always try an internal transfer.</p>
<p>bump.......</p>
<p>I double majored in Economics and Mathematics and Philosophy, so I'll try to answer your question.</p>
<p>workload: The workload can be pretty heavy as a theory major (I've heard the policy workload is much lighter and not as challenging), but no more than is reasonable (i.e. I never spent significantly more time doing economics work than I did doing reading for philosophy or problem sets for math, etc). Some of the early courses in the mahor require rectitations, but that's not really a big deal. I hardly attended those sections and still managed to get A's. </p>
<p>classes: I can only speak to theory classes. The classes that wwere required of everyone tended to have between thirty and thirty-five people in them. Afterwards, I had classesd wth as few as five students, but never classes with more than fifteen/twenty. More often than not, these were classes that one had to attend (unlike math cuorses, where a bright student could simply read the text and show up for exams) because professors regularly deviate from the text. </p>
<p>profs: vary greatly. for themost part they are well-known and interested in the students. most will be happy to sponsor ind. research and/or meet with you in office hours regularly. yet, some can be monstorously boring and difficult to follow in lecture.</p>
<p>internships: In general, I and most of my friends had internships (and some people also held jobs NYU jobs along side those internships) every semester. I worked for Lehman, BCG, DB, but also worked on political campaigns and art organizations. Some of my friends worked for movie studios ... there was great diversity among internships, btu they're there all the time for those willign to take them. The pay also varies greatly. Soem internships are, of course, unpaid, but most of the ones I had carried a healthy stipend. I made enough to enjoy a very nice college lifestyle. </p>
<p>jobs: I found myself in competition with many stern seniors, but had a job offer in hand by january of the year I graduated to work for a top 10 consulting firm. The competition wasn't made any harder for me because I was a CAS econ major ... good grades, good internships, and an analytical mind will take you places if you properly excercise them. However, I do recommend that those interested keep abreast fo waht's going on int he business world and learn basic business terms and processes ... every edge helps.</p>
<p>so do you recommend, perhaps doing pre-business as a minor to get exposed to biz world or is it better minor in somehing that i passioantely want to (in my case, east asian studies or chinese)?</p>
<p>I studied Philosophy as well and took a good number of language courses (turkish, serbian and german by the time I graduated). I think it depends on what you would like to do in the business world to some extent. I never took Stern courses and was fine. However, I did keep up with the HBR and the latest things coming out of BCG, Bain, and BAH. </p>
<p>I think that I had an edge over my competition because I was a forceful communicator, who understood economics and business in general. It also didn't hurt that I spoke a few different languages. </p>
<p>I think you should do what your passionate about. If you wanted to stuidy arabic or chinese those could certainly be assets in your business career.</p>
<p>How often was your internship and how many hours?</p>
<p>it varied depending on what time of year etc ... I normally put in three days a week and about 15-25 hours a week.</p>
<p>If my eventual goal was to do investment banking, would I be better off doing policy economics or theory economcs?</p>