<p>If you could rank these from most to least math intensive I'd appreciate it:</p>
<p>Accounting</p>
<p>Finance</p>
<p>Economics</p>
<p>Human Resources</p>
<p>Information Systems</p>
<p>Management</p>
<p>Marketing</p>
<p>Operations Management</p>
<p>Sports Management</p>
<p>I'm worried about math, so I'm trying to see which majors I should stay away from (I'm English major but want to switch to business). I'm really uncomfortable with anything mathematical. Thanks.</p>
<p>Most math - probably Econ. Least math - probably Marketing.</p>
<p>But it varies by school.</p>
<p>cool</p>
<p>anyone else?</p>
<p>I think almost all business majors require Business Calc, btw. Just to give you a heads up.</p>
<p>yea, my school does for all business majors</p>
<p>i think some of those programs use a lot of math in almost every class though, hence i want to avoid them</p>
<p>especially statistics! anything that has a relation to stats i want to avoid like death</p>
<p>lol, how did my reply get bumped above yours..? anyway, yea it was a response to your comment, thanks</p>
<p>Accounting uses a ton of SIMPLE math. Finance uses a lot of math (still not that difficult though). I would think operations would use a lot of math (statistics).</p>
<p>Math is not necessary in mgt or marketing. It isn't necessary in Information Systems either although the computer programming involved is quite difficult and probably lends itself to those types of people that are good at math.</p>
<p>thanks VW, appreciate it. so I should stay away from operations management in particular since I hate statistics?</p>
<p>I think I could handle accounting maybe?</p>
<p>I don't think HR would really involve math...then again, I don't really think it qualifies under business.</p>
<p>which would you say has the most DIFFICULT math?</p>
<p>Probably finance or econ. I think accounting has the most math involved but it's pretty much basic computations.</p>
<p>i have friends in finance, econ, and operations. finance and econ say the math is pretty straightforward and operations person says it is all hard stats. They go to top 20 schools though. Is this accurate for most schools? The thing is cause I like ISOM (info sys and op management) but am scared of the math, so I really want to know if I could handle those two if I'm not comfortable with math,</p>
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<p>Definitely stay away from operations.</p>
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<p>The math in accounting is adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing. How well you do at accounting will involve how well you pick up the concepts, and those have nothing to do with math.</p>
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<p>Schools often group Information Systems and Operations together, but these are really two seperate fields. Your school should have seperate degree plans for IS and OM. IS does not involve much (or any) math, but OM does involve a lot of statistics.</p>
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<p>Probably econ.</p>
<p>Just wondering why you want to switch from English to business? It's quite a big difference and the thing is, you really can't avoid math in business; it's always gonna be there. Sure, some are easier than others but there is no way to avoid it completely if you want to get into business.</p>
<p>jk, its just that ive been thinking about my prospects with an english degree. there's not much i can do. i'd rather have something that would make me a bit more employable. </p>
<p>btw, i might lean toward marketing. how does that compare with the more technical business majors (finc, econ, operations) in terms of being able to find employment?</p>
<p>anyone else?</p>
<p>I think if you really want to avoid math but still get into business, you should consider switching your major to communications. A degree in communications is definitely a lot more employable than a degree in English. Lots of people get into marketing/PR with a communications degree.</p>
<p>if you take econ, you can take calc II, vector calc, linear algebra. . . which are all the most difficult math courses available for anyone (the same math that engineers and math majors take).</p>