<p>I'm currently finishing the last steps with my college process. I've widdled my choices down to two schools.(currently gotten into both with decent money offered, as well, as both their B-schools) Both schools are top 20 B-schools by most rankings, but not say top 5. That being said, i'm interested in what minor I should take to give me some excellent skills in the field of Finace. I understand the minor itself will mean little after college, and in some cases not at all. I've been offered the advice by some to take courses in something that simply interests you. While i'm open to that route, both of my schools are very large and filled with activties, so i'm truly not concerned with a boring course or two. I'd rather join a club that interest me, and choose a minor that can give me solid skills.</p>
<p>As ive said, I'm very interested in the field of Finace most likely in a private wealth standpoint, but not complety sure yet.(could honestly go any which way) I'm an above-average math student(say A-, 3.7 type), but no master of it. Is their a certain B major, or different area altogether, that i should try to minor in? One school is known for a being a very very good accounting school, so is that something i should look into? I've met many people whove gotten into the Finance field by going the accounting route. Any suggestions would be helpful.</p>
<p>I know I have a good amount of time on my hand to make these type of descions, but it would be nice to help me focus one a few. Maybe I can take a few cheap community college credits before hand, or something along those lines. Thank you for any responses.</p>
<p>“As ive said, I’m very interested in the field of Finace most likely in a private wealth standpoint”</p>
<p>ny1111, I am not sure what you mean by this. You can be a CPA and be a trusted financial advisor. You could be their investment manager. You could be involved with IPOs. You could be a fund manager. You could handle their real estate.</p>
<p>On a more general level, I see accounting as a discpline which will help uou understand financial reporting and taxes, finance as a tool to understand the investment vehicles and their valuation, and economics as a tool to help you understand how production and consumptions decisions are made.</p>
<p>A couple suggestions. One thing I like to do when gathering information is to look to see what successful people who are in the fields of interest and see how they got there. Also, don’t be afraid to call people in your area involved in the professions that interest you and ask them for 15 minutes of their time. You have plenty of time to do that because no matter what direction you take, your first year in college should be similar no matter what your major.</p>
<p>OP is interested in wealth management, maybe private banking. </p>
<p>What about psychology? People often make decisions based on emotion. D1 is in IB. When she was internviewing for jobs, one of her interviewers suggested for her to take some psychology courses. You may want to take some art history and wine courses. Overall, I would suggest for you to take some liberal arts courses (like philosophy and religion, history) to round off your finance courses.</p>
<p>Since you brought up psychology, oldfort, I found the following link for when researching OP’s original question, I noted the education of Bill Gross.</p>
<p>[The</a> Greatest Investors: William H. Gross | Investopedia](<a href=“The Greatest Generation: Definition and Characteristics”>The Greatest Generation: Definition and Characteristics)</p>
<p>Also, your suggestion of wine tasting, art history and a general well-rounded education are excellent. I found the religion particularly interesting and with merit. I know wealthy, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Mormons. Lutherans, etc.</p>
<p>Thank you both geo and oldfort. To geo, i’ve been asking around for people who’ve been involved in areas i’d like to work. Many have taken the accouting route while others have gone striaght into the field in a few ways. Obviously, more research on my part will have to be done, but I have plenty of time. I would just like to have an idea becuase for one school its a 4 year program, and I would have the option of knocking a a large part of a accounting minor down within the first 2 years. Than possibly I could look towards a second minor.(such as physcology)</p>