<p>Hello, I have an A.S. Degree from a california community college in Construction Technology. I just transferred to California State University Bakersfield to complete a B.A. or B.S. </p>
<p>I'm extremely confused on which major to pick and need help. I am going to school for job security and a decent paycheck. I want to be able to land a job after receiving an undergrad degree, I have no plans of going for a Master's. I have held numerous jobs in construction and retail and have a solid 5 years of work experience under my belt. Ideally, I would like to be work for the local county, city, or state government. I would like to keep my options open for the public sector as well. </p>
<p>My options are: </p>
<p>1) B.A. in Public policy and Administration with Economics Minor
2) B.S. in Economics with Concentration in Public Administration
3) B.S. in Economics with Concentration in Finance
4) B.S. in Business Administration with Concentration in either Economics, Finance, or General Business.</p>
<p>*Note: The Business Program is (AACSB) accredited. This college offers a Master's in Public Administration and a Master's in Business Administration in case I ever wanted to go back to school.</p>
<p>Which do you suggest I do, please state why you pick that option over the others, and any other suggestions/ comments are appreciated. </p>
<p>*Note: My school does not offer engineering, only pre-engineering, I don't want to be a male nurse and am not interested in Accounting so please don't suggest those, furthermore, I agree with picking something you enjoy to an extent...but the main reason I'm paying for myself to go to college is to get a better paying job that is secure, work is work and its not meant to be fun, making money and not having to worry about losing my job in a down economy overwhelmingly is more important than trying to do something I enjoy. Furthermore, please state why you suggested your option.</p>
<p>I would do option 4 with a concentration in finance, second would be option 4 with economics, third would be option 3.</p>
<p>I would go for a BS over a BA because they require more quant skills. Quite frankly, the more quant you have, more often than not, the more employable you will be. Also a degree in public administration from a mediocre university is probably going to land you a job making 30k to do paperwork for city hall or something not exactly glamorous.</p>
<p>The BBA jumps out at me because it’s usually the hardest program to get into out of these at any given university and gives you marketable quant skills in finance. Economics would be okay, but I wouldn’t specialize in general business, because calling something general a specialization is an oxymoron, and specialization increases employability. That’s why I would put economics ahead of it, but only since you can get those valuebal finance skills with it.</p>
<p>It really doesn’t matter that they offer a master’s program, because you don’t have to go to grad school where you went to undergrad. In fact, at this university, it probably wouldn’t be worth your time and money to go to grad school, so if you decide to go back, you should probably aim higher.</p>
<p>Hmm well i think if an employer is looking for someone that is specialized in economics, a BS in ECON would look better than a BS of BUS Admin with an econ concentration. So, if you’re looking to go into an ECON inspired career, choose options 2 or 3. If you’re gonna do option 4 definitely go with Finance, because it is general, without being too general, such as “General Business”… with Finance you will have a broad spectrum of career options and still maintain a specialization that is central to practically all companies.</p>
<p>What about bsba in business with your accounting/finance concentration with a minor in ppa? I think some of the classes sometimes overlap so it might not be hard to do a minor.</p>
<p>123, if he does a BBA in economics, he’ll get the business core with finance and accounting classes an economics major probably couldn’t even take. I’m sure an employer would value that more than some analysis of inequality curves or something that the business major wouldn’t be able to take. He might even still be able to take all of the economics classes with this setup anyway.</p>