I am a transfer student that has tagged to UCSB for Econ and Accounting. Does anyone in the major, has been in the major, or has extensive knowledge of it have any info about it? I have read all UCSB’s info that they have on their website but it doesn’t have much detail. How economics heavy is it vs how accounting heavy? Is it a good choice for someone who didn’t dislike Econ but didn’t love it either and loves accounting? I got a B in intro to micro and a B in intro to macro at my CC, but they were once a week night classes that I could have put more effort into and gotten an A. Should I go to another school? I read online that the economics courses at UCSB can get pretty intense especially Econ 10A. I know they got rid of the Econ 10A curve so is still really hard to get the B as a transfer? How is the recruitment vs somewhere like CSULB or UCR?
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In terms of econ heavy vs accounting, you can look at the required courses in the major here: https://my.sa.ucsb.edu/catalog/Current/Documents/2015_Majors/LS/Econ/Econ-Accounting-BA-2015.pdf
The description of each course listed is here: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/undergraduate/courses.html
After briefly looking through, it seems like there are a fair amount of accounting courses in the major so it’s not entirely dominated by Econ. All I can gather through my friends who went there in that major is that Econ10A is definitely intense (some of them have already changed majors after taking that course). I would definitely reconsider how you feel about Economics and see if you can decide if it’s something you like or don’t like. That’s all I can answer for you, good luck!
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