<p>For quite awhile I've been interested in careers in investment banking and in trading.</p>
<p>For quite awhile I thought that maybe some sort of Mathematics or Economics degree would best help me. This is after I thought about Business Economics at UCLA and the reason I stopped thinking about it was because I thought that Mathematics or pure Economics would be a little more practical and universal. Well now someone had said that people at UCLA interested in investment banking or trading majored in Business Economics. I asked on another thread about investment banking chances and someone recommended that undergraduate business at UCB or USC would be much better and would definitely help me in business. The problem is I found out that undergraduate business degress are mostly for consulting and after someone's contract is over for a company, that someone either moves onto something else or gets an MBA.</p>
<p>Well that's the problem. What's the point of getting a BS in business administration and then getting an MBA which pretty much nullifies the BS? Wouldn't it be more practical to have an undergraduate degree in something else to supplement the MBA? It doesn't seem like a BS in business administration would supplement an MBA.</p>
<p>Plus I found this.</p>
<p><a href="http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/BusAd.stm%5B/url%5D">http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/BusAd.stm</a></p>
<p>The average salaries. Those salaries are the same as some of the teachers at my who've been there for little over two years. So the real question is: Is an undergraduate degree in business administration at a top school like Haas or Marshall even worth it?</p>
<p>Oh and I guess I'd like my first question answered: What would be a good major for investment banking and trading?</p>