<p>Forget the marketing concentration. It does no good.</p>
<p>@"Erin’s Dad" why not?</p>
<p>You don’t need a marketing degree to be good at marketing, unlike accounting or other areas of a business degree. Ruling a school out because it doesn’t have a marketing emphasis is way too short sighted.</p>
<p>@"Erin’s Dad" What else could I major in?</p>
<p>A quantitative economics major choice would be great. Many of the marketing decisions made today are based upon data analysis…what works? What didn’t work? How effective was your recent email blast.broken down by customer segments? Who should we target with our next marketing effort while optimizing our spend?</p>
<p>You would need to make sure the econ major allows you to do a quant focus. Some LAC econ majors lack that.</p>
<p>You would obviously want your summer jobs/internships to be marketing focused.</p>
<p>Our instate land grant school has an ag economics major, most of the students go into marketing or finance. Average starting salary is $48,000 in a rural state. I looked at Tulane, and the avg starting salary for their marketing majors is $45,000. Indiana’s marketing majors have an average starting salary of $50,000 per year. Again, goes to show you that you don’t need a degree from a ‘prestigious’ school to get a good job in marketing.</p>
<p>Econ is a very flexible degree. You can do marketing, inventory analysis, supply chain analysis, etc etc. it really depends upon the courses you take and the experience you get through summer jobs/internships.</p>
<p>@Haystack Can you mention some of the LAC’s that offer quantitative Econ majors. That was the first time I have heard of that.</p>
<p>To look for quantitative economics, look in the course catalog and check the math prerequisites for intermediate microeconomics and econometrics courses, and check for mathematical economics electives.</p>
<p>Intermediate microeconomics and econometrics courses usually have a math prerequisite of a semester or year of calculus. A more quantitative course would list multivariable calculus, linear algebra, and/or differential equations as well.</p>
<p>Of course, a quantitative economics major would want to take additional math and statistics courses, including calculus-based probability and statistics.</p>
<p>It doesn’t need to be an uber heavy quant focus to get good jobs in marketing, supply chain, etc. it just shouldn’t be a ‘soft’ Econ major.</p>
<p>I would look for…</p>
<p>It should require 2 Calc courses.
2 stats courses, not necessarily making heavy use of calculus. Applied business stats will likely be more useful for someone going into marketing and many other business areas.
A course in econometrics should be required.
Micro should require Calc 1 as a prerequisite.
Upper division econ courses should require the use of Calc.</p>
<p>That is sufficient for almost any entry level job in marketing, supply chain, inventory analysis, sales forecasting, etc.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input. As a question I posted earlier do I stand a chance at UVA? </p>
<p>On top of UVA is USC within my reach. My ACT is in the 50-75% range and my UW GPA is in the 25-50%.
<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/docs/USCFreshmanProfile2013.pdf”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/docs/USCFreshmanProfile2013.pdf</a></p>
<p>If you want people to chance you start a new thread in the Chances Forum.</p>
<p>Ok</p>
<p>Might consider Holy Cross-top25 LAC which offers accounting and economics major. HC is one of a few dozen schools that meets 100% demonstrated financial aid. Holy Cross has fantastic business alumni network.</p>
<p>^par72, quit spamming.</p>
<p>Ill look into it.</p>
<p>University of Massachusetts at Amherst has a business program which is ranked by Bloomberg in the top 50. It is ranked 36. Maybe you can get a scholarship to UMass Amherst.</p>