<p>Can someone that attends Tech elaborate on minoring? What are some of the popular major/minor combos, what do a lot of people minor in, etc? </p>
<p>Would it be hard to Major in an engineering field and minor in a business/management field?</p>
<p>There’s actually a "management and technology " minor that takes 40 people a year that’s a really excellent program, but most minors don’t limit the number. And it’s fairly wide open; a few majors like ECE have minors because you couldn’t take enough 3000/4000 level classes to make 12 hours with 6 hours of prereqs (there’s some prereq chains that would make it a minimum 28 hour minor, which isn’t allowed). I’m actually a CS minor and a music performance minor and love both of them!</p>
<p>In addition to the technology and management program, you can also get certificates in any of the business disciplines. [Georgia</a> Tech - College of Management | Certificates](<a href=“http://mgt.gatech.edu/programs/under/prospective/con/index.html]Georgia”>http://mgt.gatech.edu/programs/under/prospective/con/index.html)</p>
<p>The finance certificate is fairly popular, especially among IEs.</p>
<p>It is very common to combine engineering with a business-related minor. I do question how this ultimately affects employability but it certainly doesn’t hurt. I also have found that the CS-math combo is rather popular. You see some mechanical engineering-aerospace engineering combos as well, and many students will minor in a language, perhaps as part of a language study abroad program. BME-chem is fairly common among pre-med students as well.</p>
<p>A brief distinction between certificates and minors: Minors are recorded on the transcript while certificates are not. If you plan on minoring, you should also plan on attending Tech for an extra semester or two. It’s hard enough to graduate in 4 years with one degree, let alone going above and beyond that. Minoring is a decision that you should ultimately make with your advisor after spending some time determining what your goals are.</p>