<p>i am just starting to choose a major. how dificult is a business major? i'm still debating between business, psych, and history. i tried taking some prereq hitory major courses that were interesting, but long term couldnt see myself going into a career for it and it had limited opportunitites. which is a more popular major, psych or business? also for busines, what concentration is most popular: management, finance, marketing, or accounting. i can tolerate math, but its not my preference. which conecentration in business would require classes with the least math for major preparation? thanks for your help</p>
<p>math is pretty important. A lot of business is either putting the numbers together or looking at them quickly and making decisions based off of them.</p>
<p>You can go so many directions in business. Look at yourself and see what you enjoy, ie if you are a people person maybe management or marketing. Psych would be a great minor for business IMO. My son did a minor in history and latin american studies with his businesss major. I doubt if you would have to choose your concentration until you have had intro classes--wait and see what really interests you.</p>
<p>Yes, take intro classes and test the water.... I am an Accounting major with a psych minor... and the two go well together IMO... the reason is that a lot of accounting requires analyzing data, and psychology is analyzing behavior... and from what I've found, analytical skills are pretty much analytical skills.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, one thing to keep in mind is that usually a business major is rather structured and you have to meet a lot more credit hours in the major to earn it, where in history and psychology (at least at my school) you have more flexibility to integrate other disciplines within the major.</p>
<p>For example, the accounting major requires 74 credit hours... the psychology major requires 50... so you would have 24 credit hours of whatever you'd like if you were to major in psychology... this isn't intended to apply to all schools so you may want to double check yours.</p>
<p>if u have a degree in management science, can u get decent jobs right after ur undergrad degree?</p>
<p>All of the listed disciplines require quite a bit of math: </p>
<p>-Psych involves a lot of statistics (although many get by knowing little about stats, unfortunately)
-Accounting and finance is almost all math
-I'm assuming that managment is going to have an operations component, which involves a lot of planning using mathematical models and budgeting
-Marketing involves a lot of math for estimating demand and evaluating market research.</p>
<p>Psych majors can usually avoid math if they try hard (although, I must say, that really bothers me). Your marketing school's program may or may not have a lot of math.</p>
<p>marketing does involve math, at least on the working level, with pricing and whatnot</p>
<p>these are NOT high level maths though, at least at UF all that's required for any business major is survey of calc, it's not like engineering where you do an entire sequence of calc and still have to do DiffEQ and linear and everything.</p>