<p>I had several interviews for both marketing and supply chain jobs as an Economics major but I'm wondering what it takes to become the following careers:
Brand Manager/Product Development
Market Research Analyst
Merchandise Analyst/Buyer</p>
<p>My grades are 2.9-3.0 range I'm trying to bring it up but probably won't and am trying my best to improve my interview skills still. Do you think any marketing related grad program will accept me ex: Statistics, Math, Market Research, MBA Marketing.</p>
<p>Should I get a second degree in BS Marketing at another school after I graduate college?</p>
<p>I’d not recommend pursuing a second bachelor’s unless it’s concurrent with your current degree. As far as pursuing concurrent majors, I’d recommend SCM/Operations. Most (all) posters here would tell you that marketing degrees don’t take you very far these days. Operations and SCM degrees at least have an analytical aspect to them, whereas your average BSBA Marketing degree is more qualitative. With SCM or ops you’re going to see problems involving modelling, optimization, simulations- skills that are useful across a range of business fields and subsets. You should have a solid math base in economics, right? (Calc series, econometrics, stats).</p>
<p>A marketing degree won’t help you more than an Economics degree. An MBA from a program that does not require work experience would be worthless.</p>
<p>But if you decide on another undergraduate degree:
Why at another school? Are you not going to a good school now? If you receive any state/federal grants via financial aid, your eligibility for them will be terminated after graduating with your first Bachelor-level degree. In that case, it would be preferable to extend your graduation by changing majors and/or double majoring. If you don’t go to a good school, just transfer (if you can - and the admissions standards are normally higher for second-degree students than transfer students).</p>