<p>I'm considering: Economics, Finance, and International Business for my majors. Is it possible, or is it just too much?</p>
<p>seems like a lot- depends if a lot of courses overlap or not. id talk to your advisor and see what he/she thinks.</p>
<p>The first consist of the same three required courses, as all are part of the business school. It's the fourth year where you start to notice a difference. I might end up taking classes over the summer of my junior year to lighten the load up a bit.</p>
<p>Having a triple major may sound great now, but make sure you are willing to put in the work and sacrifice other things.</p>
<p>What benefit do you forsee this providing to you? How is this better than graduate courses for depth rather than three for breadth?</p>
<p>So what your saying is taking graduate classes, and doing research over the summer is the better way to go?</p>
<p>graduate courses and research during the regular term is all that is required. I am certain that you can put together many options for summer opportunities. Find out what you must do for submatriculation at Nebraska which is where I think you are. i</p>
<p>Wow ... good luck man.</p>
<p>i'd say it's possible. and yes, you can take courses in the summer. but ask yourself if it's really worth it. do you really have to and want to do it now? can you wait until grad school? do you have other things that you'd like to spend time on?</p>
<p>i was a triple major at Syracuse University (economics, history, english). I took a huge amount of courses, but it wasn't very difficult. AP credit makes it alot easier. Depends on what school you're at. SU was easy. I transfered to Cornell and it's 10X's harder. Couldn't do it here.</p>
<p>It's possible, it's just stupid. There's no real reason to waste your time majoring in all three of these closely related subjects. I could see maybe adding international business as a double but I'd suggest picking Finance OR Econ. Usually the business schools at universities is regarded as more prestigious so I'd take Finance if that were the case. </p>
<p>As for international business, I'm not sure if it's entirely necessary to major in this. You could easiy major in finance and just take a number of language classes pertaining to the area you wish to study.</p>
<p>"It's possible, it's just stupid. There's no real reason to waste your time majoring in all three of these closely related subjects"</p>
<p>I agree. The only reason i was a triple major is because i was certain i wanted to transfer and I wanted to take courses that would transfer (Cornell is very picky). The only way i could take some of the courses, in particular upper-levels, was if i was enrolled as an econ, or a history major. So, I was a triple major and could pick and choose my courses.</p>
<p>If I was a triple major, I would have done Social Policy, African American Studies and History. Given that I'm not that insane, I just rather take all the history courses that are American-related.</p>
<p>I agree with many of the above posts. The first question I had, after reading the thread, was "Why would anyone do that?" What advantage does it give you? If you plan on taking just about all of the classes that fulfill the requirements for these three majors for various reasons, perhaps because they overlap almost completely, perhaps because they all interest you so much and you just can't choose, or because you want a difficult challenge, or because taking lots of classes and doing papers and reading things makes you really happy, then maybe, but really, is it worth fulfilling nearly three times the requirements with all of the potential losses? You would lose so much time, probably a lot of sanity, very likely a lot of money, and various other things. You can still learn a lot with only one, or two majors. In addition, the probably slightly lighter loads will give you time to read things in your fields of interests (or others if you so wish). You can make a lot of your education on your own, besides just taking classes. If a lot of the classes overlap, it'll likely be much easier to do, but even then, there might be much better ways to use your time. It really comes down to what you want, though.</p>
<p>Triple majors are easy if their in related fields. Brown's open curriculum allow you to have triple majors in 32 courses</p>
<p>Yeah, those are all basically the same thing, shouldn't be that bad.</p>
<p>Well lets just say this. Most people have a really hard time getting a 4.0 with just 1 major. Just think of how hard it will be with 3 majors.</p>
<p>OP and people with the triple major idea: Are you crazy?</p>
<p>I think it would be better for you to have one major plus different minors.</p>
<p>First, don't believe that this is easy until you hear from more students who've actually done it. Declaring a triple major as a freshman, sophomore, or even junior is a very different thing than actually completing the process. I know people who dropped majors up to the second semester of their senior years because of various things...scheduling conflicts, burnout, thesis requirements. There are a lot of variables.</p>
<p>Second, you need to talk to an advisor about this. Some schools don't allow triple majors. Some won't allow two majors within the same school. Some won't allow two majors in different schools. At my school, there was a cap on how many courses you could count toward multiple degrees, so having two degrees in closely related fields would actually have been fairly difficult. You need to figure out all of the relevant policies before you assume that this is even possible.</p>
<p>Finally, even if this is possible, it's not necessarily advisable. Depending on what your future plans are, a triple major might not be any real boost, while graduate courses or research really might be. Most graduate programs will be more interested in the rigor of your coursework than in the number of your degrees, so having a greater number of upper-division electives, rather than extra intro level courses, would be helpful. Depends on the program and your own plans/goals. Also, having such closely related degrees seems a bit redundant. It's just not clear what the point is and what, specifically, you're gaining with extra majors that you can't gain with emphases, a minor, or electives. Depth, not breadth, is usually preferable.</p>
<p>This is, of course, up to you, but there are a lot of considerations beyond just "Is it easy?" First and foremost, find out if it's possible<a href="and%20that%20depends%20on%20you%20and%20your%20school,%20not%20on%20our%20opinions">/i</a>, then look into whether or not it's *advisable and personally preferable.</p>
<p>I go to a school that has an open curriculum, and while it might, in theory, be "easy" to triple major, it really wouldn't be possible. Scheduling conflicts are guaranteed to happen, especially when you have to take classes in three different departments that may or may not schedule around each other. Furthermore, you're likely to have lots of classes per semester that require the same type of work; you might have different preferences, but I like to have at least one class that isn't technical so that I don't feel like I'm doing the same thing over and over and over again.</p>