<p>Any ideas on what minors would actually be useful for a business career. </p>
<p>Personally I'm still a college freshman, but I was thinking about math and history - History because I like it and math because I heard that it could be useful down the road.</p>
<p>the advice I’ve been given is that anything quantitative like math or physics are a positive. I expect that math would complement business well, since most business majors only require basic calculus and a math minor requires up to multivar calc. I dont know about history though.</p>
<p>Most companies care very little/not at all about what you minor in. I would pursue a subject if you have some interest in it, and if it has some relevance to your major field. Finance/Accounting/Econ/Math/etc. all fit well together, but there is not much advantage to a history minor for a business major in terms of usefulness.</p>
<p>I know history wouldn’t really offer much. That’s the one I would do just because I’m interested in it. Math was what I had in mind in terms of a minor thats more valuable.</p>
<p>You need to choose a minor that is going to boost up your
GPA–not ruin it. So, if you are good with history, then you should minor in it, but don’t pick math just because it sounds good. Math can actually destroy your GPA, if you are not good at it, and that may ruin your future career. Do you have any other minors on your list?</p>
<p>I’m getting a minor in econ, but I actually enjoy learning the subject and would be majoring in it if my school made it easier to double major through different schools (college of arts & sciences and business).</p>
<p>In order to get a minor in math you probably have to take Calc 1 to 3, differential equations, linear algebra and some proofs/logic classes. If you think you can handle it, do it. </p>
<p>History would be a much easier minor to achieve, imo. If you pay close attention to history and cross reference it to business cycles, it can be quite handy in the real business world. History and Economics kind of go hand in hand in that sense.</p>
<p>Computer science is a good minor</p>
<p>Communication is a good minor as well. It can strengthen both your writing and oral communication skills which you’ll definitely need in the world of business.</p>
<p>Minor in whatever you enjoy. It gives you a chance to take some classes you like and boost your GPA. There are a few subjects like communication which are useful minors, but the vast majority of subjects are too big to get a handle on with just a minor, and employers know that.</p>
<p>If I was working HR, the kid with the compsci/math minor but lower GPA will beat out the history minor any day unless my firm had a hiring fetish for humanities and social studies.</p>
<p>Does anyone have an idea on English minors?</p>
<p>Dude, instead of worrying about arbitrary crap like minors, go and network. The time you waste worrying about your degrees will be much better spent emailing/meeting people and impressing them so that they’ll pull for you or forward your resume and help you get a job.</p>
<p>I would go for a foreign language minor. It’s a nice addition to any business major. Having good foreign language abilities also makes you very competitive in the job market.</p>
<p>A lot of colleges require you to be bilingual by your graduation. The one I plan on going to requires you to be fully proficient in a foreign language to graduate. So why not tack it on a a minor? : 0)</p>
<p>Computer science is one of the more useful minors, although it’s probably still subjective. The reason why it’s useful is because employers will still hire you to be a programmer/software engineer with ONLY a minor. So simply minoring in it almost works like a double major. This is good in case you don’t like the “business” offers your getting and wanna transition into tech, but probably useless if you have no thought of going into tech.</p>