<p>Do you need a BA in business? Or could you move into an ibanking firm from a different undergrad degree?</p>
<p>No, you don't need a business degree. Most of the top undergrad schools that are heavily recruited by i-banks (HYPS, etc.) don't even offer BBA's. Econ generally gives you a good enough business-related background. I've also heard that engineers are heavily sought after because of their quantitative background and work ethic.</p>
<p>Computer Science? That is a part of the school of engineering at the university I attend. A friend of mine who also attends this school and is also a Computer Science student told me he plans to work at an ibanking firm out of college. My school is a state school in NY, but it's one of the top science facilities in the country and has a superb computer science program. I still doubted him though, and told him he was crazy..I guess he was right. I always thought to break into ibanking you needed to grad in business management or something.</p>
<p>Financial Analysts work mainly with Excel and Powerpoint, they are the number crunching grunts.. you dont really need a business degree or any degree to do that in terms of just skills.</p>
<p>Couldnt have said it better myself. An Art history major can probably become an ibanker.</p>