High GPA with finance major or low with engineering major?

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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<p>I know this question is asked a lot, but I cannot find any posts on it with the search function. Basically, I want to get an MBA after college. Obviously a better GPA helps in admissions, and major I know does not matter too much. </p>

<p>Do business schools have any bias towards a certain major in admissions? More specifically engineering vs. business undergrad.</p>

<p>I want to major in Industrial Engineering, but I also love investing and finance. Engineering will perhaps offer me more opportunities, but my GPA will be lower. Not to mention finance will actually teach me what I want to know. However, I can learn finance before my MBA without a finance degree.</p>

<p>Basically, I am asking if it would be better to major in engineering and get a low GPA or major in finance or econ and get a high one.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>It really depends what you want to do after getting your MBA. If you major in engineering, you will probably do engineering the rest of your career, whether you get an MBA or not. Recruiters for finance positions coming out of the MBA program probably will not be attracted to engineering experience.</p>

<p>To answer your question, yes, it’s ok to have a lower GPA if you majored in engineering. (Probably 3.3 in engineering ~~ 3.6 finance). But GPA isn’t all that important. The work experience is what matters.</p>

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<p>Well, I was an undergrad engineering major at a top-5 engineering school who finished with ~3.1 GPA. I got accepted into a pretty decent Masters in Finance program afterwards, so I assume my GPA was curved a little bit.</p>