<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I’m feeling conflicted because I really love Barnard College and I really want to pursue a business major. I know they offer economics, but what if I’m more interested in finance or supply chain management? Can I just take business classes at Colombia?? </p>
<p>a good question for the Barnard forum, OP.</p>
<p>Oh right, thanks!!</p>
<p>Columbia does not offer undergrad business. </p>
<p>Doesn’t Columbia offer courses like financial econ?</p>
<p>You should check the Columbia website for the answer to your question. </p>
<p>Yeah I did! Which is why I was confused as to why you said that… Do you mean as in Colombia doesn’t offer a lot of business courses?</p>
<p>The business school at Columbia is a graduate school. They may offer a handful of business courses to undergrads. </p>
<p>@TomSrOfBoston is correct…Columbia’s school of business is a graduate program. Undergraduates at Columbia and Barnard are not offered the chance to major in business. You need to reconcile your interest in a particular school with your interest in following a particular course of study. In general I suggest that you look at a school’s website to see if it offers a major in your area of interest. </p>
<p>Columbia doesn’t have an undergraduate business major, as was already stated - however, they do have a financial economics major:</p>
<p><a href=“http://econ.columbia.edu/financial-economics-major”>http://econ.columbia.edu/financial-economics-major</a></p>
<p>They do also offer some undergraduate business classes. There’s a list at the link I gave, but some examples are Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Discrete Time Models in Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Economics of Business Orgs (the latter two of which are actually offered at Barnard). You could also take graduate-level classes if you become advanced enough - the 4000-level classes at BC and CU are mixed grad-undergrad classes that are targeted at junior and senior undergrads as well as first and second year grad students. As you can see from the webpage, though, there are also several 3000-level business classes offered (which are usually exclusively for undergrads). You can also take some classes in industrial engineering/operations research, which may satisfy your supply chain leanings. One of my RAs was a financial economics major and he had like a bazillion interviews in his senior year.</p>
<p>Now, you want to go to Barnard and not Columbia. So you can’t formally major in financial economics, as it is Columbia that has that major at not Barnard. However, Barnard students can register for Columbia classes, so you could major in economics and take a whole bunch of the finance and business classes at Columbia if you wanted. You’d need to talk to a major advisor at Barnard first, though, to see how many classes from CU you’re allowed to count towards a Barnard econ major. You’d need to check to be sure but I know that BC students can register for CU classes the same way they would register for their own, through SSOL (no running around with cross-registration forms. In fact, a lot of times I wouldn’t even know I had Barnard students in my classes until they gave me their email address, and one time I co-taught a class at Columbia that was almost entirely made up of Barnard students, lol).</p>
<p>If you’re interested in women’s colleges with business majors, look at Simmons (in Boston) and Agnes Scott College (in Atlanta).</p>
<p>It’s not necessary to have an undergraduate degree in business to work in finance, supply chain management or any other business oriented field. Whether you get a liberal arts degree from Barnard, Columbia or any other school, and whether you major in economics or any other discipline, the key is to start building your resume with summer jobs/internships and making connections with alumni/ae and professors. Once you have a foundation you will be able to parlay that to a job upon graduation. Then, later, if you wish you can get an MBA or other graduate degree.</p>
<p>If that doesn’t appeal to you, there are plenty of small to medium sized colleges that offer undergraduate business degrees.</p>
<p>I’m curious though, what is it that interests you in supply chain management? I’m a supply chain/sourcing manager, but my career path was like many people’s indirect. (I was an art history major!) </p>
<p>Barnard majors will have their own set of requirements, but there is usually a combination of required courses and elective course toward the major, and Barnard doesn’t place any restrictions on where those course are taken. So a Barnard econ major - <a href=“http://economics.barnard.edu/majors/descriptions/economics-track”>http://economics.barnard.edu/majors/descriptions/economics-track</a> – includes are requirement of 3 electives – those could be chosen from all course offerings, whether at Barnard or Columbia. </p>
<p>WOW thank you so much everyone!!! I really appreciate it</p>
<p>oh and @momrath it’s just fascinating to study all the steps that go into developing a single product and i like the challenge of being as economical as possible 
to be honest though, i’m still in the process of familiarizing myself with different business fields… it’s really cool that you’re a supply chain manager!</p>