What major for Investment Banking?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Florida
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<p>What major (with an additional major/minor in Spanish) at UF (specifically) is best for Investment Banking at a top tier banking firm (The most possibilities in the job market and advancement that is).</p>

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<p>It depends. Do you want to go into trading? If so, ANYTHING. Trading is its own league. Banks pull History, Philosophy, and basically any Liberal Arts major. If you want to go into the Quant side, Engineering or Math/Stat. From what I’ve heard, a Finance major at UF will not get you much.</p>

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<p>Industrial engineering!</p>

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<p>Economics, law, finance, accounting are the majors that the people we know ~husband included~ that are in the field.</p>

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<p>If you aspire for top companies, UF is not the right school. Top IB companies simply don’t target UF so it would take a lot of luck and probably having to know someone to get one of those jobs. If you were to go somewhere like Harvard, you could major in anything and have a great shot at one of those jobs.</p>

<p>That being said, you still have a shot at landing an IB job in smaller companies graduating from UF. I know of two people that graduated from UF and got jobs in IB(don’t remember companies), and both of them majored in Finance. UF finance is really not bad at all: <a href=“http://www.ir.ufl.edu/nat_rankings/us_news/u_finance.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ir.ufl.edu/nat_rankings/us_news/u_finance.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Engineering would also look great; but if you get through engineering, would you really want to go and get an IB job after that?</p>

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<p>finance program is generally good. no one gets into top companies out of UF finance without connections though. particularly investment banking.</p>

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<p>uf’s msf program sends a few students into investment banking every year. that is by far your best bet.</p>

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<p>Major in transferring to Emory or Duke</p>

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<p>Don’t major in finance. Finance majors at UF are a dime a dozen. In fact, I heard my study abroad advisor say once that Finance majors make up about 70-75% of Warrington. In my opinion, if you want to do anything in the business/finance world and you’re at UF then you should major in accounting. The accounting program is definitely the hardest and most well respected and honestly, a person with an accounting degree can do all the same things as someone with a finance degree but not vice versa.</p>

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<p>So you want to be a bankster?
How about business ethics? Failing that, criminal law might be useful. lol</p>

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<p>there are more UF finance majors on wall street than UF accounting majors, emory, and duke students combined. </p>

<p>the opportunities are there if you seek them out and you’re a top student.</p>