Math/Econ or Math/Political Science?

Graduate School
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<p>I hope to either attend law school or pursue graduate studies in political science sometime after my undergrad. I'm pretty set on doing a math major with a stats concentration (or a stats major if my school offers it) with either econ or poli sci, but I can't seem to decide which. (The stats undergrad would be great for any type of social science research.) The risk with doing a poli sci major is that if I don't go to law or graduate school for whatever reason, I'll basically be stuck with it, whereas with econ I'll have better job prospects.</p>

<p>But political science is my passion and I know I would be able to excel in it. My interest in poli sci is for the real thing, not just an "interest in politics."</p>

<p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated. </p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Any math major will have good job prospects, although math/econ would probably be better. Based on what you’ve said, I’d say go for math/poli-sci, because you seem to like it more. If it doesn’t work out with law school or Ph.D, you are still a math major. You could go into some form of applied math, and there are a lot of options. I’m a math/econ major, and a lot of the econ is theoretical; some of it is good, but it’s really the math part that’s immediately useful for industry. So I would say don’t worry about your job prospects as long as you actually go with the math or stats.</p>