<p>I am hoping to attend UCLA next year and some day go to mange Hedge Funds or work for a company like Goldman Sachs. However, I really don't have much interest in taking business classes. I am fairly sure I will go on to get a Masters in Economics, if not a PhD. If I have the grades while attending UCLA, would it still be wise to major in BizEcon as opposed to just Econ.</p>
<p>Go ahead if you want a masters or phd in economics. Biz Econ consists of accounting and certain economics courses related to business and finance. You can simply bypass these courses by doing an economics major and assuming you have an impressive GPA, I see no problem since generally the reason economics majors are considered less capable than business economics majors is because they lacked the gpa to get in, but if you have a strong gpa in economics, that would obviously not be the case.</p>
<p>ECON!!!!</p>
<p>yeah im screwed too...</p>
<p>wow, from what everyone's saying, it seems like if you get screwed over and end up in econ, then you probably won't find a job or something..</p>
<p>is that true? i mean, you guys ARE still graduating from UCLA with a degree in econ - that's still gotta be impressive to employers.....................right?</p>
<p>Is it very hard to maintain a gpa of.. what was it? 3.3? for admittance into the biz-econ program?</p>
<p>If you can't get into BizEcon, do Econ major with Accounting minor. That way you'll pretty much follow the same curriculum as the BizEcon students except for two courses (106 series).</p>
<p>P.S. it's not the bizecon major that gives you the "prestige". It's actually the Anderson courses (Accounting) you take that gives you an upperhand over the Econ students.</p>
<p>The thing is, the accounting minor almost has the same restriction as the BizEcon in terms of GPA. That and the minor isn't a guaranteed admission into the program.</p>
<p>White<em>Rabbit, since you wanna get a Master's in Econ, you might wanna check out the Departmental Scholar Program: <a href="http://www.econ.ucla.edu/undergrad/department">http://www.econ.ucla.edu/undergrad/department</a></em>scholar_info.html</p>
<p>Basically, it allows you to simultaneously pursue your Bachelor's and Master's in Econ. It seems really hard to get into though because of the astronomical gpa requirement (3.5), but it's something you might be interested in.</p>
<p>WOW, thank you so much passerby. That sounds like an amazing program. I'm not sure if you know anything about the program, but if one was to enter UCLA with around 30 credits from AP/IB and take 5 courses each semester, would they receive their Masters in their 5th year or 4th?</p>