<p>I'm graduating high school in a few weeks and am going to a medium size state public university next year. They offer degrees in three fields that I am interested in: accounting, business administration and economics. I know the difference between the degrees and I have become very interested in economics. My problem is that I don't know what jobs you can with an economics degree besides being an "economist." Does anyone know what some common jobs you can get with an internship plus a bachelor's in economics?</p>
<p>A BS or BA degree in Economics can usually satisfy any type of job pre-requisite that requires a degree in business (or related field). It’s a very broad degree, depending on your course of study in undergrad (there usually are several different “tracks” for Economics majors; mathematical economics, business economics, etc.)</p>
<p>However, if you ever want to be an “Economist” for a large corporation, government office, academic setting, etc, then you would need to get a PhD.</p>
<p>Extremely versatile, but you’ll be much better off either double majoring in math/econ or majoring in math/stats with an econ minor. You’re going to really want to tack on a CS minor as well.</p>
<p>I’m fortunate to go to a school where the econ and math departments don’t require an overly excessive amount of credits for each major, so I’m easily able to double up in math/econ with a CS minor, and that’s what I’m doing. There’s also specializations within the math department for statistics and scientific computation as well as some certificate programs in related subjects. </p>
<p>But yes, I’m not a huge fan of economics alone, because all the theory of it is kind of pointless if you aren’t able to apply it to the real world. That’s where applied math and CS comes in.</p>
<p>I always knew math was important to economics, but truth be told I’m fairly abysmal at math, and don’t want to suffer through math courses just to obtain a double major in math and economics. I think I may just go with an accounting degree and do the CPA emphasis, meaning I would have 150 credits upon graduation. I wish my school offered a finance degree but they only offer business administration with a finance emphasis. Thankfully I won’t have to actually declare a major until the end of freshman year.</p>
<p>I’m not saying you HAVE to major in math in order to major in economics. One can easily be a great economics major without being great at math. I do think if math isn’t your thing though you might be better off studying accounting like you said. Just don’t completely limit your options at this point.</p>
<p>A lot of things - <a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Econ.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Econ.stm</a></p>