Which (double major) is more suitable for marketing purposes?

<p>Psychology + English
Psychology + Economics
Psychology + Creative Writing</p>

<p>I am really heavy set on Psychology as the main degree, but I want to push myself for the dual one. I am thinking Economics for sure...</p>

<p>I’m liking Psychology + Creative Writing. Sociology and anthropology are some other majors to consider</p>

<p>Depends on your goal and what you like. Since it is the most quantitative, Econ is the most versatile of all the social sciences. But if your skill set tends towards the more creative side…</p>

<p>Economics it is then. Creative Writing would be nice, but I got into Emory declaring Psych/Econ. :slight_smile: You guys are awesome.</p>

<p>definitely economics.</p>

<p>A couple things that might be helpful…</p>

<p>A. Everyone starts Freshman year with the same major: undecided. It doesn’t matter what you put on your application. Don’t shortchange yourself now by pigeonholeing yourself into a narrow course of study that you will probably regret later. Well over 50% of students change their majors at some point.</p>

<p>B. Re Marketing: It doesn’t matter. Unless you go into the bschool, you can major in basically anything in the humanities. I have friends in marketing who run the gamut. All the majors you described and half a dozen more. You probably haven’t taken more than one or two classes in any of those majors that you described (if any), and they weren’t college level classes. With so little experience, it’s impossible to know whether you’re going to like calculus based economics and econometrics or whether you’ll have any interest in writing a 20 page paper on a close reading of two lines from Emile with a new historicist interpretation. </p>

<p>Take a wide range of subjects whose class descriptions look interesting your first year and don’t worry about whether or not you’re going to get into a certain field 4 years from now. Chances are, you won’t even end up in the profession that you think anyway. College (especially liberal education) is about learning for learning’s sake, not learning to prepare one’s self for a career. If you want an education that prepares you for a single profession, go to the business or nursing schools. That’s what they’re there for. </p>

<p>Now I’ll step off my soapbox.</p>

<p>But in all honesty, I’ve been through all this, and I wouldn’t be taking my time to write this if I didn’t think it was good advice.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

<p>thread is old people…good advice though!</p>

<p>haha, thanks for pointing that out :)</p>

<p>What do you mean by “marketing purposes”? Do you want to know what will look good for jobs and/or grad school? Or do you actually want to go into the field of marketing?</p>