<p>Economics</p>
<p>Finance</p>
<p>Accounting</p>
<p>Sorry, I'm a n00b.</p>
<p>Accounting leads to being a public accountant, auditor, tax accountant, or an advisor. They can also lead to financial analyst, credit analyst, budget analyst, risk analyst etc… As you progress in your career you’ll be looking to become a Certified Public Accountant, a Chief Financial Officer, a senior accountant, a manager, a controller, a treasurer, or perhaps a Certified Financial Analyst.</p>
<p>Finance jobs overlap quite a bit with accounting jobs. They most often lead to being an analyst of some sort, a financial advisor, a banker, or maybe an accountant. As you gain experience you’ll look to become a Certified Financial Planner, a banking branch manager, a controller, a CFO, a senior analyst, or a manager. </p>
<p>Economics is considered to be one of the best preparation majors for graduate school, namely law, business, and the social sciences. If an economics major were to get a job right after their bachelor’s, they would be looking at the same types of jobs that finance majors go for. The difference is that sometimes finance majors may have an advantage in that most business school’s have much better recruiting than the liberal arts schools, so an economics major may be more on their own in finding a job and might face tougher competition. One advantage of economics is that it is much broader than finance or accounting and will give you more options overall. Also, when employers are looking for “quantitative” skills, which are the jobs that are better paying and face less competition (let’s face it, most Americans are morons at math), an economics major will probably be looked at before a business major.</p>