<p>Between Finance, Economics, and Business Adminstration,</p>
<li><p>Which major looks more “prestigious”? I understand there will be some subjective bias in medical school admissions.</p></li>
<li><p>If I don’t get into medical school or if I decide to change at the last minute (I’m a junior as of now), which one of these majors would help me getting a lucrative job in the business world?</p></li>
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<p>The reason I’m thinking about picking a business degree is because I’m losing my interest in the medical field from reading all the posts in another thread. But I still have desire to become a physician. So I’d like to use this major as a last minute option or Plan B, whatever you want to call it. Plus, I figure it would help out in private practice if I did have a business major.</p>
<p>Obviously an Economics degree is the most powerful/versatile tool, and has the most direct bearing on a policy discussion of medical care, which will come up in interviews and such.</p>
<p>Employers are highly unlikely to distinguish between such degrees - everything will depends on your specific coursework, your grades, and your summer internship.</p>
<p>Remember, you will need a summer internship either way, and the types of summer internships available are not mutually compatible, so you will have to "pick one" path early in your junior year.</p>
<p>finance is a watered down econ degree, and business admin can be done later in your career as well.</p>
<p>mike, would it be wise to supplement an econ degree with a science degree as well, just so you can get the leg up on research opportunities and whatnot?</p>
<p>That would basically be the only advantage I can see, and even then it doesn't make that big a difference. If you have the coursework and the experience, then nobody cares what your major is.</p>
<p>I don't have any objective data to back it up but I've found that Business admin is the general business major available at every school, its the average degree, so to speak. Economics is a more in-depth study of the societal market at large rather than how to aid in running a given institution which is what business admin is. I'd thus think econ is the most prestigious and desireable for a practicing doctor. Besides if one was really going to do business as a career, you'd get an MBA anyways so the business administration would be taken care of then.</p>