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<p>Right, not in the front office side where all you do is fill in premade excel spreadsheets, but I don’t think this is really a viable career path for most. The turnover in Ibanking is 90+% at 5 years as its both not a sustainable lifestyle for most and it has a very flat structure(lots of new analysts every year, not a lot of directors). </p>
<p>But in finance in general, quant work is by far the most rapidly expanding field due to both the nature of the business (lots of data) and regulation rules around capital and loan loss reserves. It’s also fairly recession proof.</p>
<p>To answer your question:</p>
<p>finance- a good deal with interest rates and such, but can be done without much innate ability. Picking up a math minor is an amazing resume builder and usually only requires vector calc
political science (more practical types not like political theory but like stat analysis, game theory, and modeling) - Big data is growing, easier to get in on the IT side than the PhD math side. IT requires a fair to strong math aptitude.
accounting - none really except some valuation techniques for financial instruments. much more memorization
business- too broad. Generic white collar job? Arithmetic/Excel mastery
business law- to get into a t14 to get into this field, you’d need a high LSAT meaning above average apititude.
Investment Banking- Not much past basic business understanding, so a good understanding of algebra. Its all the interview, school status, and resume. The actual work is fairly repetitive especially at the analyst level.</p>