<p>Hi I am currently a freshman at the Kelley School of Business and I was thinking about my major and my future career. I read about a career involving consulting for businesses. I am a good problem solver and what I read made me very interested. I was originally thinking Management and Technology but this sounds very good. What should I major in if I wanted to get into consulting?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>They offer Economic Consulting as a major. It's a (relatively) more numbers/stats than most other business majors (I'm basing this off of friends in the major), but I hear it's interesting.</p>
<p>it's under their Business Economics and Public Policy umbrella.</p>
<p>Here is the list of required classes for the major:</p>
<p>Required Courses
BUS-G 304 Managerial Economics Prereq E201 3cr.
BUS-G 303 Game Theory for Business Strategy Prereq G304 3cr.
BUS-G 345 Money, Banking, and Capital Markets Prereq E201 & E202 3cr.
BUS-G 350 Statistics and Forecasting for Business Decisions No Prereq 3cr.
BUS-G 400 Workshop on Economic Consulting (Fall Only) Prereq I-Core 3cr.
BUS-G 492 Specialized Topics in Economic Consulting No Prereq 3cr.</p>
<p>Plus ONE of the following
BUS-G 406 Business Enterprise and Public Policy (Spring Only) No Prereq 3cr.
or
BUS-G 455 Topics in Business Economics and Public Policy: Sustainable Enterprise (Spirng Only) No Prereq 3cr.
or
SPEA-V 449 Policy Senior Seminar No Prereq for BEPP students 3cr.</p>
<p>You can really major in just about anything if you want to go into consulting. It just depends on what field of consulting you want to do and for what industry. If you like technology, you can become an IT consultant and I know tons of consulting firms that hire you for that. Management majors can go into strategic consulting.</p>
<p>Management is probably the worst major you can do for consulting, despite its appropriate name. You definitely want to do something more quantitative and analytical, like finance/accounting or operations management (if you're limited to a business program). Management is like applied psychology for studying organizational behavior. Even strategy courses are too frameworks-based to be useful in real consulting. In other words, they are BS in the real world of problem solving (and they are frowned upon in case interviews). That's just my opinion, based on the courses I've taken.</p>