<p>I'm thinking about doing a double-major with electrical engineering and either economics or mathematics. I want EE to have solid career prospects coming out of college, but I want a non-engineering degree to give myself more options and complement engineering. I like math a little more (although I've taken a lot more math than I have economics, so that could change), but I've heard an economics degree might allow me to climb into upper-level management faster. </p>
<p>Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.</p>
<p>I will say this: If you strongly believe you have the appropriate potential executive/corporate personality, and that's the type of personality you are happy living with most days, then go with Econ, and maybe Minor in Math.</p>
<p>Also, even if you went with EE, your training in analytical thinking and problem solving skills would be appreciated by many potential employers. So from that perspective, any Engineering degree would be considered broad, and very marketable in the job search world. This is considering not even minoring in anything, alongside EE. And seriously, isn't the workload in EE quite enough anyway? :)</p>
<p>Anyway, good luck. I think it is good to think about these things, but sometimes we get frustrated and too caught up in the decision making process. Don't worry, I think any of those degrees, as you mentioned above, are quite marketable, and broad. Basically, I guess what I am saying is -- any degree obtained for which constant analytical thinking process was required, will be excellent training for a generally wide spectrum of job possibilities. </p>
<p>Bachelor's degrees need not be directly connected to what type of job you want to find directly after completing undergrad. Except of course for jobs in Engineering, computer programming, IS, etc.</p>
<p>What about business administration? You can't do anything with an economics degree unless you get a graduate degree in it. As for math, you will get enough math in you EE degree that even if you wanted a masters or PhD then you will have background for it.</p>
<p>You can't do anything with an Econ degree? Well, it is not quite as specialized as Engineering or computer science, but the whole point is that it helps you develop analytical process skills, and that is a valuable thing to market for possible jobs.</p>