Need advice on accompanying minor

College Majors Business Major
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This is a question about minors rather than majors, but this seemed like the most relevant place to post. I’m dual majoring Sports and Media Studies with Business Management, both at W.P. Carey at ASU. I’m torn between minoring in Math or Statistics. I’m on pace to complete all of these in the standard four years provided I take a couple summer classes at the CC, 9 semesters at most. Tuition money is no object in my situation, and I’m fairly good at math. A mathy minor isn’t going to hit my GPA too hard if at all. The plan is find a top 100 law school that both suits me and pays me full tution(Preferably ASU) and get a JD in Business Law, sports and business if possible (It is at ASU).

So to the point, is there really any difference between Stats and Math when it’s only a minor? Is the difference irrelevant in terms of job prospects when paired with a Management degree? ARE there more job prospects with them than without them? (I understand the sports major is probably irrelevant if I’m not working in sports)

My pipe dream is to become the Athletic Director at a D1 school, secondary career goal is to work in educational administration at the secondary/post-secondary level.

Before anyone says anything, ASU is my prime choice because

  1. It’s in state and cheaper
  2. My housing is free until I decide i’m done with school (Parents)
  3. Sandra Day O’Connor is high enough ranked for me (#26)
  4. It offers the JD specialization that I would want to pursue
  5. I’m a die hard Devil for life with no shame

I can be talked into or out of either. This is something that I want, but I could accept the fact that they’d be a waste of time and focus in on my Majors and GPA. This just isn’t a discussion that I could find elsewhere that didn’t involve masters level math/stats.

Thanks guys!

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Math/stats is not a waste of time for improving employability. Choosing between them, for a minor, is probably irrelevant for job prospects, but stats might be more useful to you than math or applied math. If your goal is to improve your job prospects significantly, then major in statistics (BS from arts and sciences, not business stats). You’ll become more employable in a variety of other fields, along with keeping career prospects in the sports industry where stats (“analytics”) are becoming more and more important. It will also add quantitative rigor to your program and put you in better shape for a higher LSAT score.

You’re right about the Sports and Media Studies major if you don’t end up in sports. You’re getting largely the same knowledge as in your Management major, with a handful of extra courses in sport admin/media. You could learn 90% of what you’d learn in the sports major by just buying/reading the texts. Could you learn stats that way? If you’re going to pay good money for instruction, pay for something that you can’t learn on your own.

You might not be able to add another major at this point in your program, though, in which case I’d go with the stats minor (arts and sciences). If, by adding a stats minor, you’re faced with doing another semester to finish your degree, that’s even more reason to question the practicality of the sports major. There is added cost and time that could be better spent with intern or work experience.