<p>Hi! I'm currently a high school student who will be an undergraduate student in the Fall of 2012. I'm planning on double-major in Business Management and Computer Science, however, I have trouble choosing my minors. The minors that I'm have trouble choosing are Statistics, Economics, and Business(?).
I'm curious about what good it will do me choosing either one of those for minor. What am I going to get out of Statistics minor that I'm not going to get out from Economics or Business minor. Since I I'm doing really well in my AP Statistics class (and I enjoy doing statistics), I'm wondering what can I get out of its major verses its minor. And also, does it really do any additional impact to minor in Business despite that I'm already majoring in Management? Thank you in advance!</p>
<p>By “Computer Science”, do you mean something more along the lines of computer information systems, a business degree? Or do you mean computer science, an engineering degree? Either way, because of double majoring, you may be hard-pressed for space in your schedule to minor. That is unless you intend on spending more than 4 or 5 years in undergrad. </p>
<p>To answer your question I’ll give you the answer I think my economics professor would give: it depends. You don’t need a minor in business. Maybe a few extra accounting or finance courses just for the knowledge would be nice, but you don’t need the minor. Statistics is a solid field of study with a lot of applications, including economics and operations management. Economics is not necessarily a bad choice. But if you’re looking for the quantitative aspects of it, be sure your college offers those courses at the undergrad level. Just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>Thank you for your reply, rattler917! Well, ever since I was a high school, I’ve always been interested in Computer Science, mainly because of its networking and software programming. So I understand that it will be very time consuming and requires a lot of hard work. As for minoring in Economics… Well, I know that I will be minoring in Mathematics, so will that be sufficient? Or is there something that’s very important for business and that I can only get from taking Economics?</p>
<p>Do you want to pursue economics as a career or a hobby? If you go the career route, then do you want to go in the social science direction or the quantitative/econometric direction? If its the latter, as I assume, then I would probably go with mathematics. Otherwise, minor in economics.</p>
<p>I have to ask though, why management? And what concentration?</p>
<p>Just to reiterate, these are merely my suggestions based on limited observations.</p>