Love engineering, but may want to go into banking later on or start my own business.
Just throw in some economics and finance courses as out of major electives.
Or major in industrial engineering.
Even finance companies tend to recruit pretty run-of-the-mill engineers if they can prove they have good quantitative skills. CS or industrial would be adequate. A few finance courses on top of everything is a lot easier than learning good quantitative skills - take a business or economics course or something and you will see how bad they are at math, as a general rule.
Though you really should have just one thread, and ask all of your questions in one place.
What school are you planning to go? If you could double-major in both, it would definitely be great on the resume, just not sure if it’s possible.
@deeeznuts I’m not sure yet…haven’t applied to anything. Still trying to decide. I’m thinking U of I, UIC, Purdue, Indiana University, UW Madison, University of Iowa, Case Western and Ohio State.
When a school offers a choice of more-math and less-math economics courses, the less-math version is typically far more popular. The more-math version mostly attracts the pre-PhD economics majors, while the “economics as a pseudo-business major” students (who make up the bulk of economics majors) tend to choose the less-math version.
Industrial Engineering with some electives in finance. Some ISE programs support “Financial Engineering” as a focus.
And this is generally the case at top schools that don’t tend to have a straight-up “business” UG degrees. UCB is different from many state schools in that regard. My guess is that it has a lot to do with who is in it because they want to be economists vs. who treats it as a “pre-banking” route.