Really good question: What is my major?

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<p>So everyone, I have always been interested in math, but this year has opened my eyes to business/engineering.</p>

<p>I am really interested in marketing, and things about consumer behavior, and like commercials and stuff.
What exactly would my major be called? is there a type of engineering for this?
Like marketing engineer or a finacial engineer? what exactly does that fall under?</p>

<p>Currently planning on attending UC Berk for engineering, and I want to transfer into Haas... Is this viable?
Unless of course I get into wharton off of their waitlist in may.</p>

<p>What should I do?</p>

<p>Thank you for the help!</p>

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<p>At Berkeley, perhaps [IEOR</a> or ORMS](<a href=“http://ieor.berkeley.edu/AcademicPrograms/Ugrad/index.htm]IEOR”>http://ieor.berkeley.edu/AcademicPrograms/Ugrad/index.htm) may be a way to combining math with business, economics, and finance.</p>

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<p>Perhaps you’d like Data Mining or Business Analytics. Check out business schools and CS/math majors or some combination like business informatics.</p>

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<p>how exactly does transfering into haas work?</p>

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<p>[Admissions</a> for UC Berkeley Students, Undergraduate Program - Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley](<a href=“Admissions - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas”>Admissions - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas)</p>

<p>However, if you are really interested in math as well, you may find that the normal business major to be too light on math (and probably not sufficient for quantitative finance that “financial engineer” does). You may want to consider the following:</p>

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<li>business major, but take extra math courses</li>
<li>applied math and/or economics major, but take some business courses also</li>
<li>IEOR or ORMS</li>
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<p>It seems you like Statistics, but just didn’t know it yet.</p>

<p>What you like is the Market Research side of Statistics. There are several applications of Statistics (Applied Math) to Market Research, but at the core of it is Sampling…or “Sample Survey Methodology”. Some derivations of this would be customer satisfaction surveys, feedback analysis, etc.</p>

<p>There is also another field related to Marketing/Statistics/Applied Mathematics. It’s called “Conjoint Analysis”. It’s different from Sample Survey Methods, and falls into Experimental Design. It has to do with setting up a series of product choices and testing it on consumers to extract various outcomes. It can be used for product design, price point determination, etc. The overlaying theme is efficiency…asking the fewest questions to the consumer to extract the most information. It’s better to ask 200 consumers 5 questions than it is to ask 5 consumers 200 questions.</p>

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<p>Try looking into [Industrial</a> engineering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_engineering]Industrial”>Industrial engineering - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>Oh man! Thanks for the help
Everyone. I just really want to go to
Wharton off of the waitlist… Its my first choice, but berkeley would be amazing nonetheless.</p>

<p>And im taking statistics right now… I pick it up really fast and enjoy it!</p>