<p>I may want to major in econ..but not sure..after majoring in econ...what do princeton students mostly do after they graduate?</p>
<p>everything, pretty much.</p>
<p>? :confused:</p>
<p>definitely lots of ibanking, but you can do government work, work for industries. actually i have no idea after ibanking and govt work. im wondering that myself.</p>
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<p>Econ is one of (if not THE) the most popular majors at Princeton.
And yea, you can do whatever you want with it...some possibilites are business school or law school, or you can go into investment banking, etc. </p>
<p>I don't know what you mean by how hard it is. Certainly that's a subjective criteria and it depends on the person. You can look in the Announcement for the requirements, but the core is Econ 100, 101, 300, 301, 202 (statistics), econometrics, and MAT 103.</p>
<p>Or you could just get a job, haha. Econ can take you a lot of places, luckily.</p>
<p>A lot of times (especially if you go on to grad school), what you majored in during undergrad doesn't really matter. You can study something and then end up in something completely different.
So go ahead and major in Latin or Art History if that's what your heart desires :p</p>
<p>the econ major at princeton is variable. the non-math track econ major isn't very hard. and the math-track major is a bit difficult, unless you are a math genius</p>
<p>what are some non-math track econ majors??</p>
<p>for econ major your core courses (micro, macro, econometrics)are,
math track: 310,311,312 or
non math track: 300,301,302.</p>
<p>otherwise the majors are the same</p>
<p>krbxtigerz, there is basically just one econ major, with two tracks: one for mathy people and one for non-mathy people, so there aren't really multiple majors in econ, though you can certainly take electives with a certain bent. </p>
<p>I am most definitely sticking with the non-math track :p</p>
<p>i think ill take a mix. im worried the math tracks might get too technical and lose the big perspective.</p>
<p>And what are you afraid you would miss if you took all non-math track?</p>
<p>a technical understanding. the techie side is in slightly higher demand, supposedly.</p>
<p>besides, math is what i was best at.</p>
<p>there is no big picture in econ. that is waht the electives are for. econ is a technical major and needs to be approached technically. you cannot go to grad school in econ unless you are math-track, FYI....</p>
<p>Blah math. If I don't turn out to be an econ major, I'll be majoring in English, so yea, no math track for me. </p>
<p>You can still go to business school if you're not math-track, right? </p>
<p>Do you think the non-math track is better for law school? I think that's more or less where I'm headed, and the econ & law electives look pretty good.</p>
<p>what about political economy, joelj?</p>
<p>yeah if you wanna go for political economy, should you major in econ, poli sci, or woody woo?</p>
<p>political economy is a certificate, so you can choose any of those. but economics is a very subjective field, so I'm not sure you can say theres no big picture in econ.</p>
<p>wouldn't economic policy be a woody woo field? is that any different from political economy?</p>