<p>So I've been told that a normal Economics BA degree is pretty much useless. It's very general, and doesn't really cover any skills that translate directly to an immediate career. </p>
<p>I'm torn between UCSD's Economics, UCI's Business Economics, UCD's Managerial Economics, and whether or not I should appeal to UCLA's Economics program. </p>
<p>If you were an employer, which degree would you hire: regular Economics, Biz Econ, Managerial Econ, or hire based on tier of the school?</p>
<p>Pair it with as much math as possible (Analysis, Mathematical Finance etc) and it is extremely useful and versatile. A non-math economics degree is pretty useless IMO and limits your options for graduate school and jobs. </p>
<p>You’re better off with a college degree in general studies than with no college degree at all. That much is an economic fact. Furthermore, mid-career salaries for most college graduates tends to be pretty good. I’ll give you sources if you want.</p>
<p>As a Math/Econ major I can agree that injecting more Math into can make the degree a lot better especially if you want to attempt an Econ Phd…</p>
<p>and if you want to get the sexy jobs (IB, consulting, ect) a Biz-econ would be better.</p>
<p>I would not say the degree is useless… The Econ degree (at least at UCLA) has so few requirements that is so easy to add as a double major, it almost has the same requirements as a Minor.</p>
<p>@Dagoberto I want to get those sexy job lol I got into biz econ at ucla and econ at ucb. I chose ucb because I want to leave the LA area and also because it’s ucb. should I rethink? </p>
<p>Lots of things you can do with a plain old Econ degree. Unless you are going into a specialized field, the sub-category means nothing to an employer.</p>
<p>I hate to admit it but there seems more sexy jobs at Cal than UCLA. I am actually thinking of becoming a Golden Bear for Graduate school.</p>
<p>I know that Haas > Bizecon,
however Bizecon at UCLA > Cal Econ , the advantage of Cal is the job recruiting.</p>
<p>Btw, if you are interested in Econ Phd even Cal’s Econ is not as useful. A better alternative would be Math/econ at UCLA or Applied Math at Cal (with economic concentration).</p>
<p>Aww man I’m at a lost. I already SIRed to cal and bought cal shirts for my family. Like someone said on another thread, my head says berkeley but my heart says ucla. I live near la (maybe 60-90 min drive to ucla with traffic) and I have a 2 yr old. My whole family but my dad urges me to go to ucla so that we stay closer to home. But my dad and I are tantalized by cal’s prestige. I also really want to move north for a different lifestyle. Plus cal offered me more financial aid and has a good student parent network. I don’t know man. I don’t want to regret one day.</p>
<p>I do know that if I want to look for jobs in LA after I graduate and stay in socal for most of my life. So I want to attend grad school here at either ucla or USC. However, everyone’s been saying cal’s prestige comes from their Grad program, so I’m kinda doing everything backwards. </p>
<p>Both UCLA and Berkeley are very good schools… Even UCSD is up there, to be honest. In my opinion, I think Berkeley holds better job opportunities and is more nationally “known.” That is why I am going with Berkeley over UCLA- plus I would like to experience life out of Socal for a while. UCLA seems more “cool” with a large athletic program and probably a better social life. I am a transfer student in my mid-twenties, so I am not worried about partying and making a ton of friends, been there, done that. </p>