<p>I am an undergraduate at Rutgers New Brunswick who is currently in the business school. Generally at RU, students who didn't get into the business school ended up becoming an economics major which is in SAS. I want to go to law school in the long run, therefore I would without a doubt become an economics major because I love my economics classes so much. The problem is that, I probably will not end up going to law school upon graduation because I simply won't be able to afford it. In order to save up money until I can afford law school, I need a good major and good job to lean on. Because economics is considered kind of a joke major at Rutgers will getting a job really be that difficult if I choose economics? Because if I stick with finance in the business school I will probably get a good job and great opportunities because the business school definitely gives you multiple resources. Majoring in finance will also give me a lower gpa because it is such a difficult major at RU and the students are cutthroat. law schools really care about gpa. Also, if I major in economics I will probably pair it with a double major or a minor. I cannot decide if I should just suck it up and do finance and take the required 24 classes and risk having a lower gpa in order to have greater job opportunities when i graduate OR I can take econ and get a much higher gpa and risk not having a better job opportunity but increase my chances of getting into a better law school. Also, Finance at Rutgers is almost twice the amount of classes than for economics.</p>
<p>Harvard doesn’t have a finance major. Their econ majors still usually make more than your typical finance major at Rutgers.</p>
<p>Your major won’t get you a job. econ and finance are viewed equivalently, the curriculum isn’t too different. Just get a high GPA. A guy with a 3.9 GPA in econ is more valuable than one with a 2.2 in finance.</p>
<p>your work experience gets you the job.</p>
<p>no one cares what your major is. I’m an econ major working as a statistician for a tech firm. My colleagues are all engineers.</p>