<p>I applied as management science and got accepted but I don’t know if I picked the right one.</p>
<p>I’m thinking of going into business field afterwards and applied for business econ at UCLA and business management Cal but got rejected from them. </p>
<p>So anyone have information about which of the three is the best?</p>
<p>Or does business econ program at UCSB have better chance for business field?</p>
<p>no one knows? bummer</p>
<p>Basically all the 3 degrees have similar lower division requirements (all the basic macro and micro econ). However, as you get into the upper division classes, management science has more of a focus on microeconomics and the quantitative aspects of decision making (more micro focused), while econ will be more focused on the policies and effects political decisions have on the economy (so more macro focused). If you check the econ department website at <a href="http://econ.ucsd.edu%5B/url%5D">http://econ.ucsd.edu</a>, they have all the program requirements and explain the difference between the 3 majors. To sum it up econ = least math, econ/math = most math/programming, management science is somewhere in between the 2. If you plan on going into a field like investments or finance I would recommend doing the management science path because it meets most of the requirements for masters programs in financial engineering and is more technical. If you genuinely want to be an economist then go for econ. I personally think that joint math/econ isn't as useful of a major as the other 2 and don't really have an idea of where you could go with it. I'm sure you could also work in securities and financial engineering with this degree, but I personally think it replaces too much of the upper division economics classes with nonsense math classes which you probably won't use in the future.</p>
<p>Much thanks on that! I had been waiting for someone to respond with some details in this thread. :)</p>
<p>what about international studies - economics? would that fall under "economics"? or is it a completely different major</p>
<p>uckid87
Thanks dude, I was kind of disappointed cuz no one knew about the difference. I guess I picked the right one. </p>
<p>But I hear UCSB's business economics is better if I want to go into business industry aka (finance, invenstment, accounting, and etc. )</p>
<p>Anyone know if UCSD would be still a good choice for future?</p>
<p>senson, I got into management science @ UCSD also. The only reason I picked that, is that it is THE CLOSET THING to a business program that UCSD offers. Check out this page:</p>
<p>It does a decent job explaining the business education you will will get by taking MS @ UCSD. It compares Berkeley's business program (one of the best), with Econ.</p>
<p>Here is a little blurb:
Overall, a student majoring in Economics here could, by picking electives carefully, put together a package of courses which somewhat closely resembled perhaps three fourths overlap a Berkeley major in business administration. A student majoring in management science here would automatically overlap a Berkeley business major to roughly this degree, and would be much stronger in quantitative techniques. Nonetheless, many business topics available at Berkeley are not available here.</p>
<p>If you really wanted to go into business, why did you select UCSD? Even though I was offered admission, I am looking at other options. I think that MS is a fantastic program, but I do not think it is 100% for me. Do a search for "management science" on this board (with quotes), and see what you come up with. Also, take a look at this BusinessWeek article explaining how quantitative skills are becoming more and more valuable in the business world:
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_04/b3968001.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_04/b3968001.htm</a></p>
<p>In the annual **US News and World Report 2005<a href="available%20on%20the%20web%20now,%20hard%20copy%20end%20of%20the%20year">/b</a> ranking of US Economics graduate programs, UCSD Economics was named the tenth (10th) best economics program in the US. UCSD is by decades the youngest of the top ten economics PhD program, and second only to Berkeley in public universities.</p>
<p>US News & World Report
Ranking of America's Best Graduate Schools: Economics
1.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Chicago
3. Harvard University (MA)
Princeton University (NJ)
Stanford University (CA)
University of CaliforniaBerkeley
7. Yale University (CT)
8. Northwestern University (IL)
9. University of Pennsylvania
10.University of California San Diego
11. Columbia University (NY)
University of California Los Angeles
University of MichiganAnn Arbor
University of WisconsinMadison
15. New York University
University of MinnesotaTwin Cities
17. California Institute of Technology
Cornell University (NY)
19. University of Rochester (NY)
20. Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
21.
Brown University (RI)
Duke University (NC)
University of MarylandCollege Park
24.
Johns Hopkins University (MD)
25.
Boston University
University of TexasAustin</p>