Econ majors- is it easy to find a job?

[Anonymous]

DC wants to major in econ. How easy is it to find the first job with this major? What kind of jobs?

[Anonymous]

There's about to be a giant glut of econ majors. Every other kid is majoring in econ right now. It's the next comp sci.

[Anonymous]

If you’re passionate about it, then it could be good. There’s a lot of econ majors now though so I wouldn’t recommend it if you’re looking for an easy way to get a high paying job.

[Anonymous]

Get a teaching certificate for secondary school teaching, a masters or phD for higher ed teaching. Every bro will like to be an analyst.
There's also work in research who knows for how long. Or a specialist in journalism.
They may change mind once they take college econ courses and switch to a business major.

[Anonymous]

Can be hard to get a job especially if not from a top school. Take the math version of Econ plus some accounting and finance. There is huge supply of Econ majors and a lot of mediocre undergrad Econ programs.

[Anonymous]

Let your kid pick their own major for God’s sake

[Anonymous]

What does your kid potentially want to do? Econ is perfectly fine as a major but it helps for finding a job if your kid has some reason for wanting to study it. The econ majors that choose it “just for the sake of it/because it seems marketable” will be the first kids to take a hit from an oversupply of econ majors. The ones with clear rationale and purpose will still do well.

[Anonymous]

Econ and finance. Give them $50k at graduation and they don't even have to work. Easy to turn it into a million and beyond.

[Anonymous]

Cornell Econ. = easy to find a job making $100k
GMU Econ. = easy to find a job selling insurance

[Anonymous]

Yep. Goldman just hands them out like candy.

[Anonymous]

Economics is a solid degree.

Job and career opportunities are enhanced by having a solid understanding of statistics, knowledge of the R programming language for statistics, and Python programming. Those are the tools that let one analyze economic data - which is a typical entry-level role.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can be hard to get a job especially if not from a top school. Take the math version of Econ plus some accounting and finance. There is huge supply of Econ majors and a lot of mediocre undergrad Econ programs.

What is the math version?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let your kid pick their own major for God’s sake

Learn to read OP for G's sake!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cornell Econ. = easy to find a job making $100k
GMU Econ. = easy to find a job selling insurance

And what kind of job, isn't that what OP is asking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Economics is a solid degree.

Job and career opportunities are enhanced by having a solid understanding of statistics, knowledge of the R programming language for statistics, and Python programming. Those are the tools that let one analyze economic data - which is a typical entry-level role.

Not always but often enough, have see students who can't do math switch to business major.