Econ Major

[Anonymous]

Is this a waste of a major? What are the possible career paths?

[Anonymous]

Banking, other finance, government/policy, law school, consulting, general corporate jobs, etc. There are tons of options.

Why would you think it is a waste?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Banking, other finance, government/policy, law school, consulting, general corporate jobs, etc. There are tons of options.

Why would you think it is a waste?

+1

[Anonymous]

Coming from Top25 or Elite SLAC, Econ will land you at top banks/consulting firms. Coming from Rando Directional State U, Econ may be a waste because the top firms won't recruit from there. At Rando State U, Accounting is a safer bet because CPA firms don't care about pedigree, not even the top CPA firms are school snobs. (Look at Deloite/ E&Y CEO's bios.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this a waste of a major? What are the possible career paths?

Are you for real? It is one of the main majors that people take. Can lead to just about anything. Not sure I get where you are coming from. What do you think would not be a waste major?

[Anonymous]

I majored in Econ at UMD and went to Morgan Stanley after undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coming from Top25 or Elite SLAC, Econ will land you at top banks/consulting firms. Coming from Rando Directional State U, Econ may be a waste because the top firms won't recruit from there. At Rando State U, Accounting is a safer bet because CPA firms don't care about pedigree, not even the top CPA firms are school snobs. (Look at Deloite/ E&Y CEO's bios.)

This thinking is 30 years old. Many consulting and banking firms recruit significantly outside that universe these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coming from Top25 or Elite SLAC, Econ will land you at top banks/consulting firms. Coming from Rando Directional State U, Econ may be a waste because the top firms won't recruit from there. At Rando State U, Accounting is a safer bet because CPA firms don't care about pedigree, not even the top CPA firms are school snobs. (Look at Deloite/ E&Y CEO's bios.)

This thinking is 30 years old. Many consulting and banking firms recruit significantly outside that universe these days.

They expanded to top 30 now.

[Anonymous]

It's one of the best majors together with CS. enginerring, business.

Do more research.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coming from Top25 or Elite SLAC, Econ will land you at top banks/consulting firms. Coming from Rando Directional State U, Econ may be a waste because the top firms won't recruit from there. At Rando State U, Accounting is a safer bet because CPA firms don't care about pedigree, not even the top CPA firms are school snobs. (Look at Deloite/ E&Y CEO's bios.)

This thinking is 30 years old. Many consulting and banking firms recruit significantly outside that universe these days.

They expanded to top 30 now.

Some of the T30 schools are lower caliber than T50 T60 in reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coming from Top25 or Elite SLAC, Econ will land you at top banks/consulting firms. Coming from Rando Directional State U, Econ may be a waste because the top firms won't recruit from there. At Rando State U, Accounting is a safer bet because CPA firms don't care about pedigree, not even the top CPA firms are school snobs. (Look at Deloite/ E&Y CEO's bios.)

This thinking is 30 years old. Many consulting and banking firms recruit significantly outside that universe these days.

+1. Big 4 will recruit from a lot of places in the top 100. Banking a bit more selective but still probably 50 or so universities.

[Anonymous]

Best major for people not smart enough to do math or physics and not invested/intellectual enough to excel in history or the humanities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Best major for people not smart enough to do math or physics and not invested/intellectual enough to excel in history or the humanities.

Best major for those who want a job after graduation perhaps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Best major for people not smart enough to do math or physics and not invested/intellectual enough to excel in history or the humanities.

Best major for those who want a job after graduation perhaps.

Any math major is better at a finance job than an Econ major.

It’s cute that Econ majors have to pretend they do anything productive in those four years, but the truth is all these firms have to give boot camps on trading or whatever investment strategy they use anyway to their new hires.

Econ is a great degree for people who are just smart enough but have no passions and are too lazy to try anything that doesn’t have a simple path.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Best major for people not smart enough to do math or physics and not invested/intellectual enough to excel in history or the humanities.

Getting an econ major to read a book is like asking a dog to do neurosurgeory. Insufferable.