<p>Basically, a lot of analyst jobs. You’ll find many job roles want a degree in finance, accounting, or economics. Some lean heavier towards one degree over another, but in many cases they’re interchangeable. Careers don’t always have cookie cutter requirements. For example, Business analysts are often Computer Science majors or Economics majors. I know a Treasury Analyst who landed the position with an Accounting degree, while the job posting called for an Economics or Finance degree. </p>
<p>For anyone who wants more information about these job roles, or wants to learn what else you can do with an Economics degree, go to a job website and search. Monster, Careerbuilder, Hotjobs, Indeed, etc… will list out what degrees they’re looking for with each job posting. Those listed above should give you a good launching off point in your searches.</p>
<p>Astronomy, which I majored in, is even harder than Econ but it is at least interesting. I had to take a lot of math and physics courses, as well as astronomy classes but enjoyed them all. I took a course in Econ to fulfill a distribution requirement and found it dry as dust. I can not imagine four years of it.</p>
<p>anyone have any thoughts on the Jerome Fisher program at Penn? I know that it is EXTREMELY competitive, but it seems like it’s the best of both worlds (econ/business, engineering)</p>
<p>my math is semi-good, but what I love about Econ is the theory and its application in real life. I was taking a free response question on how to maximize a certain item and I found it really fascinating. The math wasn’t to hard either, but I’m taking calculus right know and I’m wondering if I should switch to the engineering calculus instead of the watered down bussiness/social/econ calculus? Also I know UCSD accepts both type of calculus and I really don’t want a PHD in econ… for now that is… so what math is best? also what would you say the average gpa for undergrad econ program would make me competitive?</p>
<p>I believe the engineering calculus would be much better, and for econ, a 3.5+ would look good but for UCSD, I think you should aim for a 3.8+ to look competitive.</p>
<p>If you like math and are good at it, take the freshman and sophomore math courses for math, physics, and engineering majors. In case you decide you do want to go to graduate school in economics, or to a “master’s in financial engineering” program, or a more quantitative finance or actuarial job, that can help (though additional upper division math courses are often recommended as well).</p>
<p>Taking “calculus for business and social studies majors” instead basically closes the door to this possibility.</p>
<p>University of Chicago economics? Opinions? They don’t have any business majors so what can the econ majors from there go on to do? Do they need to go to grad school or can one get into the workforce sucessfully upon graduation with an economics degree from Chicago?</p>
<p>For UCSB, what major is more difficult to get admitted into, Economics & Accounting (formerly Business Economics) or Economics major? Also wondering how many spots do they have available to transfers for each major?</p>
<p>The usual minimum requirement is a year of calculus and a semester of statistics or something like that.</p>
<p>But if you want to go to graduate school in economics or go into quantitative finance or something like that, take the full two years of lower division math at community college as if you were a math major. After transfer, you will want to take the math-intensive version of intermediate micro/macro economics and some additional upper division math and statistics courses, as well as economics courses. (An economics graduate program is likely to prefer a math major with a few math-intensive economics courses over a typical economics major with just a year of calculus.)</p>
<p>With regards to math and econ studies, there’s a great video hosted on MIT’s free courses site that provides insight into the use of advance math in economics studies. If you’ve taken AP Physics you’ll have no problem following along. It also delves into the limits of economics in describing dynamics that have a strong component of risk and human emotions.</p>