<p>I want to pursue a job later on dealing with math, research, and working with numbers.</p>
<p>Is mathematical economics at Tulane a good major to possibly declare?</p>
<p>I was accepted at Georgia Tech for chemical engineering which I also find interesting.</p>
<p>My question is which major should I pursue/ what will be the better path for a job?</p>
<p>Any help thanks</p>
<p>I am sorry mets, but no one can tell you which major to pursue. The whole idea of your freshman and sophomore years is to take classes in these areas and see what appeals to you. Tulane is a wonderful place for that. Clearly you will have to take Calculus for both majors, so that overlaps. For Chem Engineering, you have to take Freshman Chemistry, which you don’t for the Econ major. But you will have to fulfill a lab science requirement as part of your core curriculum if you do end up in the Econ major, so it would still serve a useful purpose. Same thing for taking an Econ course even if you wind up in Engineering. The point is you can easily explore both for at least your freshman year, which gives you time to talk to the professors and upperclassmen in those majors, assess what you think of the type of work in each, and just get a handle on it. Since Tulane groups everything under Newcomb-Tulane College, there is zero barrier to waiting to declare your major, even through sophomore year. Just be aware you will have to do some exploring by talking to the profs and upperclassmen, because you won’t get a complete flavor of the subjects in introductory courses. That tends to come in the more specialized courses, which you might be able to get into sophomore year, but oftern the prerequisites mean you might not get to really start digging in until junior year.</p>
<p>I hope that helped. Oh, and as far as the better path for a job, that would be whichever you really enjoy doing the most. What’s the point of a decent paying job if you don’t care for what you are doing much? Especially if you had a chance to be doing something you really found interesting. There are always great jobs for people that are good at what they do, especially if they love doing it. Sometimes there are ups and downs based on the economy of course, but that would be true no matter what your profession in most cases. Go with what you really like, after you find out what that is.</p>
<p>hey thanks very much fallenchemist</p>