<p>I am deciding between a business management major or economics major at the University of Texas. I think that I would learn a lot more if I majored in economics, but what are the job prospects for an undergraduate degree in each? No matter what, I'll probably end up getting an MBA sometime afterward.</p>
<p>Your job prospects with any business degree from McCombs would be excellent. I would have a hard time choosing econ over McCombs considering many of the economics students couldn't get into McCombs and will be viewed as such (and wouldn't have access to the McCombs recruiting).</p>
<p>That being said, my cousin became a VP of a Fortune 500 quite quickly and all he had was an econ degree from UT (grades weren't good enough for McCombs).</p>
<p>Here are the McCombs salary stats:</p>
<p>Red McCombs HANDS DOWN. I went to UT for a semester, and basically all the Econ majors there are the people interested in business who didn't have the chops to get into McCombs. Some of them are trying to transfer (usually to no avail), but usually all of them end up getting worse jobs upon graduation. If you're already in at McCombs TAKE IT WITHOUT HESITATION. You'll be taking micro and macro econ frosh year anyway, so at least enroll in business, and then if you feel like you really don't like it and want to do Econ, change it AFTERWARDS. You're a shoe-in to transfer to Liberal Arts, but transferring to McCombs often seems random, and is difficult, so just go with the percentage play for now.</p>
<p>I wouldn't say transferring internally is random. I just attended an internal transfer information session and the man running it said applicants are pretty much stacked up by GPA, with the top whatever number they are admitting being accepted. Things such as ECs and anything else supplemental are only considered in borderline cases.</p>
<p>fair enough, but still, it's hard to be sure whether or not one can transfer into business. Given how hard it was to sign up for classes at UT, you might get a bad professor, or just not do as well in college initially which would make it hard to transfer. Also, I'm sure it's easy to do a double major in finance/economics from McCombs, but it's pretty darn hard to do a double in econ/finance from liberal arts. They do have a business econ option, but from what one of my friends said at a career fair, it still seems like employers hardly care about biz econ, and would still rather have a pure biz degree.</p>
<p>At any school with a good biz program, do it over econ, the options for employment are just better. However, at highly ranked LACS and top 20 schools, many of which have no business due to its preprofessional stigma, you are better off doing economics, primarily since it's your only option, and it is more "intellectual" than business.</p>