<p>Hey, I'll be going to undergrad next year. I want an MBA, yet I very much prefer the liberal arts (minus economics) to the other subjects. What are the liberal arts majors most conducive to getting an MBA and perhaps an entry-level i-banking analyst job upon graduation?</p>
<p>if you hate math don't go into ibanking...you'll probably kill yourself doing math 100 hrs a week</p>
<p>You need to find a major that will allow you to get the work experience in a career that will let you apply to business schools. </p>
<p>are you sure you want an MBA? I mean you dont like economics or anything math related. What are your motives for wanting one?</p>
<p>The only math you would need is very simple math. At my school, Business/Econ/Finance majors only need to take College Algebra and maybe Stat. My brothers wife and friends all suck at math and all of them are in financial jobs.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree with the posts above. You don't like math or economics... and you want to be an i-banker?</p>
<p>Well ummm... Michael Lewis majored in art history. :)</p>
<p>It's different now.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "it's different now." You may not even be referring to my post, but the Michael Lewis comment was made in jest. Perhaps I should have used a winking smiley instead of a smiling smiley?</p>
<p>You don't necessarily need to be great at math to have and enjoy a numbers related career. I have a BA in English and work in a Sponsored Research Administration office, and my work revolves around numbers; budgets, overhead charges, etc, and I really enjoy it. And, I really sucked at math, but I like this. It's like puzzles with numbers.</p>
<p>I'm not saying you have to be terrific at math. But if you downright hate economics and math... you probably won't enjoy it. The OP didn't claim to be bad at math... he claims to hate math.</p>
<p>The only math he likes is adding up the money that i-bankers get!</p>
<p>Interviewers will see right through you if you don't like math. Especially if it is a technical interview.</p>
<p>Ok, let's get this straight. The "hating" math part was hyberbole: I'm okay at math, getting an A in all of my math classes. Problem: AP Calc AB (aka Calc I) is the highest math class I've been to. In other words, I'm only average at math.</p>
<p>I appreciate the responses, but this is starting to sound like the law forum: can we stop arguing and start suggesting possible majors? Thanks.</p>
<p>I didn't even interpret it as you being bad at math. Plus only taking AP Calc AB doesn't determine how good you are at math (a lot of high schools have that as their highest level of math); it only determines the highst level of math you currently know. I mean you could be great at math and still hate it. I guess I was just always a fan of pursuing a job might like.</p>
<p>Anyways... if you don't want to maor in math, economics, physics, or engineering, then I'd just maor in whatever you want to because it probably won't make much of a difference. I mean you can still apply and possibly be taken in by an i-bank or eventually get your MBA, I just don't THNK (I don't know though, I mean, I'm not an i-banking recruiter) that any of the other possible majors will give you much of an advantage than another.</p>
<p>You can pick any major you want. However, none of them are going to give you an advantage, and most likely, a lot of them will give you a disadvantage. I-Banking recruiters like to see analytical thinking so they are attracted by majors such as Mathematics, Economics, and Engineering (and there is also Business). So if you take an English or something along those lines it may not be as advantageous.</p>
<p>"Perhaps I should have used a winking smiley instead of a smiling smiley?"</p>
<p>Yes, winking smiley would've helped. I interpreted the smiling smiley to mean: "It's cool man, Michael Lewis majored in art history, and so can you."</p>
<p>For the OP, incase he didn't know... Lewis also attended the London School of Economics before he got his job along with encountering quite a bit of luck in getting the job. He failed at landing an I-Banking job with his art history degree straight out of school.</p>
<p>Hopefully I have redeemed myself for my miscalculated smiley. :) (I think that smiley fits here though)</p>
<p>you could try political science</p>