Thought of no where better but to get opinions from here. Recently got into UCSD from the waitlist but was denied my first choice major of pure economics and I have already SIR to UCSB but there is still time to cancel if I so wished it. I did some research on the program at UCSD and the program would have the same courses as the pure econ major with the addition of doing just 3 upper division courses that focus on a specific region of the world. I also found it interesting that UCSD would allow for me to get a Master’s in International Relations within 3 years of transferring. I would also have to take and complete a fourth quarter of a foreign language which I did not do in H.S. and only did one class in college but for native speakers so I don’t know how that would translate over.
Econ and Accounting at UCSB is well respected and would allow for me to get a C.P.A. I honestly do not mind accounting just don’t want to do anything with taxation as I hate it. I could handle it and grit my teeth through it because there are other areas of accounting that I really enjoy such as financial analysis with ratios.
I guess I would want to do what will allow me to eventually be in good standing to become a market research analyst if its possible. UCSD would allow me to take more math classes such as calculus based statistics and mathematical economic methods along with three quarters of econometrics.
Confused with this decision, UCSB surpassed UCSD in rankings this year and I honestly don’t know if I should even consider that as that is quite shallow to pick a school based on rankings, and even then the difference is like a 2 ranking spot difference.
Any advice would be appreciated as well as comments or what you think in general.