<p>Hey guys! so i know i am decided on majoring in business administration,economics, and also engineering that involves cars or in general. is it pointless to triple major in all of these? or maybe minor in economics? also what colleges do allow triple majors ???</p>
<p>Fair warning – I don’t know much about business or econ but engineering can be extremely demanding in the amount of time it takes (not just studying, but the amount of required hours of classes you need)! Doing engineering at some universities means that you really can’t do much of anything else ‘on the side’ (especially when you factored in other requirements like general education) because you won’t have enough room in your schedule to take additional classes, unless you do not mind not graduating in not less than 5-6 years! Some schools even put a cap on the ## of creidt hours you can take, so even if you wanted to tough it out and take 30 credit hours per semester they just flat-out wouldn’t let you. What may end up happening is that you will declare one major or even two mjaors but once your third advisor finds out what you are trying to do they will say, “No, this isn’t going to work, there’s no way that you will be able to get into all of these classes, it’s mathematically impossible,” and they won’t let you matriculate as the third major. </p>
<p>I actually know some kids who did do a triple major though in University of California and University of Va. HOWEVER, for all of them the majors overlapped somewhat so it was feasible! I would definitely make sure you find a colege where the programs overlap somewhat in the classes reuqired!!</p>
<p>Decide what kind of career you want then credential yourself to get a job in that career. </p>
<p>If you try to do that backwards you will end up staying longer in college and paying for degrees you dont need. </p>
<p>I would think any college would allow you to get as many majors as you want but it has to be in the degree. So you cant get a BA degree and double major in engineering unless the college had some inter-discipline program. At that point you would be looking at getting two degrees (BE and BA). </p>
<p>But seriously look into what you are going to do before deciding on multiple degrees.</p>
<p>First, make sure you do not need to apply and be accepted by separate schools within a university. I think if this were Penn, you would be looking at the different schools (Arts and Science for Econ; Wharton for business; and, Engineering for engineering). That alone would make a triple major / degree near impossible.</p>
<p>I agree that you need to really think through what you want to do. Let’s say you want a career in the auto industry. You don’t need to be so linear and get degrees in every aspect (business, econ and engineering) at once.</p>
<p>Getting a triple major in those three areas is just silly, if not impossible in any reasonable amount of time and/or courseload. The proper route that would be far more impressive is to get the BS in engineering, a minor in econ, and then an MBA. I did that and it’s not all that uncommon.</p>
<p>AimeeM3: In college, you have 1/3 distribution requirements, 1/3 classes in your major, and 1/3 classes that you can take in any dept. This last 1/3 classes can be split between 1/6 in one dept and 1/6 in another.
HOWEVER engineering has a prescribed program that prevents you from doing anything else than engineering, especially if you want to graduate in 4-5 years.
A solution for you would be to major in math + minor in economics and computer science.</p>
<p>When I see people wanting to triple major, it is often because they are not sure what they want to do, so the best approach seems to be to do all of them. Especially in these non-overlapping subject areas with very strict engineering requirements (required for accreditation), you are setting yourself up to be miserable. You will figure out what appeals to you and gravitate toward that. If you haven’t even started college yet, it is fine to not be totally decided yet. Try out some of each, see what appeals to you, and go from there.</p>
<p>You should probably also know something about automotive design, and physics is really important for engineering. Looks like quintuple major.</p>
<p>University of Rochester.</p>
<p>You shouldn’t narrow your college search based on which ones offer a path for “triple majoring.” In fact, it’s kind of pointless right now to be talking about multiple majors. Select a college based on other factors: academic opportunities, size, public/private, cost, reputation, “feel,” research/internship opportunities, alumni network, location, etc.</p>
<p>To be honest, I’m not sure where some people get the idea that a “triple major” is impressive. All it means is that the person took classes in at least three different fields. A “major” really only gives others a vague idea of what you studied in college. I’ve compared my college coursework to that of some of my friends at other universities, who graduated as double/triple majors with minors in various fields. Interestingly, I took higher level math than a math major friend of mine and more chemistry classes than another who majored in chemistry. I concentrated in biochemistry. Go figure. <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>Be open-minded. Study what you want in college.</p>