<p>I know that people want a marketing major, but is that under an economics major? I can't find a separate "marketing" major for most schools.</p>
<p>What schools are you looking at?? </p>
<p>If you are only looking at certain ivy league schools or elite LAC’s you are probably looking at the wrong type of schools to major in marketing as an undergrad. You should look at the Businessweek / Bloomberg undergraduate business school rankings instead for a list of programs to investigate. I just looked at the top 25 schools profiles and each of them listed “marketing” as one of the five Top Areas of Study. </p>
<p>In the Businessweek rankings, Notre Dame has been the top undergraduate business program for the past several years. Other top programs include: Virginia, Cornell, Penn, Wash U, Boston College, Emory, Michigan, Texas and North Carolina. In the top 25 there are numerous other state universities such as UC-Berkeley, Indiana, Illinois, and Miami (OH) where you can go to a great program with in-state tuition. Other great state universities are just outside the top 25 in this ranking including: William & Mary, James Madison, Wisconsin, Texas A&M and Ohio State.</p>
<p>In short, there are plenty of good schools where you can major in Marketing.</p>
<p>The job prospect of having a marketing major is not as great as an economics major. If you wish to do marketing, you can take several marketing courses in an economics major which gives you more flexibility.
As you go up the job ladder in marketing, an MBA is required.</p>
<p>What should I do if I mentioned that I wanted to major in marketing on my supplements, but I chose my intended major as Economics?</p>
<p>I guess I am confused. </p>
<p>It sounds like you applied to a school that doesn’t have a marketing major. You then indicated that you want to major in marketing in your application supplement, but then chose Economics as your major??</p>
<p>Well, schools that don’t have business programs still tend to offer economics, so I guess that is as close a major as you can get at such a college. My question is why are you applying to this college if it doesn’t have the program you want? Didn’t you know this before you applied?</p>
<p>By the way, I fully agree with cbreeze regarding the MBA. Accounting and finance majors have the most available entry level jobs with a bachelors.</p>
<p>Most colleges don’t hold you as to what you wrote in your supplement. You are free to change your major up to the end of your sophomore year. However, if you took a lot of classes not in your major the first 2 years and then change your major, you may not graduate in 4 years.</p>