Worried About Job Placement

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Hello Collegeconfidential! I am an upcoming Freshman who will be double-majoring, hopefully, in econ and math at Boston College.

I love econ and math but I’ve begun to regret about my choice of applying for the College of Arts and Sciences. As you may already know, once you apply to College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College, it is nearly impossible to internally transfer into the Carroll School of Management.

My initial plan was to major in econ and math so that I can work in a business field, like investment banks and finance. But I learned recently that majoring in math and econ will lead me to a path of a scholar, like a phD pursuing guy. But I really want to interview, work for firms, wear suit, carry a leather bag, and do things a typical “business person” does (sorry if I sound foolish haha!); that has always been my dream.

So what I really want to ask is: how is the job placement for someone who has a BA in Econ and BS in Math? Carroll School of Management has the Econ BS degree, which is I guess the type of econ where it is geared more toward business, but it looks like it is nearly impossible to internally transfer into it. And also I am not sure how BS in pure Math will work out for me, as it is not as applicable to the real world as majors like Applied Math, Statistics, Actuarial Math, and Financial Math (BC only offers a pure Math degree).

Did I make a bad choice of not applying as a business major?

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If you’re double majoring in econ and math that could put you in a good position to go into Actuarial or Quantitative analysis work. Have you looked at the differences between a BS or BA in math and whether one might be more applicable?

To combine that with a MSF, MBA, or MFE would make quite an impressive resume.

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@philbegas Yes. BC emphasizes that BA in math is more for teaching whereas BS in math is more for STEM. But i am more worried about the difference between BA in econ and BS in econ, because at the College of Arts and Sciences, I’ll only be able to do econ BA.