Econ Major

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Anonymous wrote:Another thread that could have been helpful for students considering what and where to study goes straight in the dumpster.

You people are so useless.

Dumpster? People are giving great advice. Frankly, anyone can look at a graph and point the direction of supply and demand. It’s the grads with mathematical and coding ability who excel above their peers. Econ is a fine degree, but no longer can you enter the fields students desire without taking the quantitative track.

Well, that post shamed the children into silence for a page or two so the adults could talk but now we are back to witticisms like: “ hey humanities major say hello to Starbucks”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another thread that could have been helpful for students considering what and where to study goes straight in the dumpster.

You people are so useless.

Dumpster? People are giving great advice. Frankly, anyone can look at a graph and point the direction of supply and demand. It’s the grads with mathematical and coding ability who excel above their peers. Econ is a fine degree, but no longer can you enter the fields students desire without taking the quantitative track.

Well, that post shamed the children into silence for a page or two so the adults could talk but now we are back to witticisms like: “ hey humanities major say hello to Starbucks”

Well, an insecure humanities major person first injected humanities in this thread with below post on the first page.
That was just a reaction to that

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

Do more research.

SPELLING CORRECTION: injunearring

[Anonymous]

My kid is majoring in Econ with minor in data science at a T40 school.
Econ is one of the best majors sort of a hybrid between stem and social science investigating how the world works.
It's relatively lucrative, too compared to other majors.

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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.

Hey! They’ve read a chapter of a required reading once! Sure they used chat gpt after, but they had to put a lot of effort into the query!

Dang. I might have just found the major for my son! Smart kid. Actually really good at math without too much effort (5 in calc BC in 10th grade) but allergic to doing any extra work. I am never going to make an intellectual out of him.

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone say what is the difference between a BA and a BS in Econ? My student is very strong in math and is looking at Econ as a second degree choice after Math.

It’s not about the degree type, but the actual courses. Any Econ program without econometrics, advanced econometrics, linear algebra, time series, and probability required or heavily suggested is a complete wash of a degree.

This is to a T what DC did at Uchicago. He makes 3-5x peers who did Business Econ to easy their way out of math. By the end, he nearly ended with a math major!

What was his major at UChicago? Economics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another thread that could have been helpful for students considering what and where to study goes straight in the dumpster.

You people are so useless.

Dumpster? People are giving great advice. Frankly, anyone can look at a graph and point the direction of supply and demand. It’s the grads with mathematical and coding ability who excel above their peers. Econ is a fine degree, but no longer can you enter the fields students desire without taking the quantitative track.

Well, that post shamed the children into silence for a page or two so the adults could talk but now we are back to witticisms like: “ hey humanities major say hello to Starbucks”

+ 1

[Anonymous]

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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.

A few guys at my company have degrees in Econ. They are Project Managers, Project Engineers, Estimators, etc.

All making way over 100K+. Not everyone is a math geek, or wants to be one!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another thread that could have been helpful for students considering what and where to study goes straight in the dumpster.

You people are so useless.

Dumpster? People are giving great advice. Frankly, anyone can look at a graph and point the direction of supply and demand. It’s the grads with mathematical and coding ability who excel above their peers. Econ is a fine degree, but no longer can you enter the fields students desire without taking the quantitative track.

Well, that post shamed the children into silence for a page or two so the adults could talk but now we are back to witticisms like: “ hey humanities major say hello to Starbucks”

Well, an insecure humanities major person first injected humanities in this thread with below post on the first page.
That was just a reaction to that

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

So you decided to get right down to their level?

[Anonymous]

My undergraduate was in Econ at UMD. It has a top graduate program that attracts many talented students.

Its not a waste, but it depends on what you want to do in the future. Whether you go the BA vs BS route, one with an emphasis on policy , and the other with an emphasis on complex data analysis. If you’re not strong in math, the BS will be difficult.

You’ll find that the vast majority of Econ majors don’t pursue econ in graduate school. Alot of my teaching assistants were either math or physics majors in undergrad.

A BS degree will help in finance and banking, a BA degree will help in government/non profit/ maybe even law school.


I’m a CPA now, but the econ major covered alot of my required classes. I love the subject, but maybe majoring in accounting and minoring in Econ would have been better for me!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another thread that could have been helpful for students considering what and where to study goes straight in the dumpster.

You people are so useless.

Dumpster? People are giving great advice. Frankly, anyone can look at a graph and point the direction of supply and demand. It’s the grads with mathematical and coding ability who excel above their peers. Econ is a fine degree, but no longer can you enter the fields students desire without taking the quantitative track.

Well, that post shamed the children into silence for a page or two so the adults could talk but now we are back to witticisms like: “ hey humanities major say hello to Starbucks”

Well, an insecure humanities major person first injected humanities in this thread with below post on the first page.
That was just a reaction to that

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

So you decided to get right down to their level?

Yes like when I talk to 3 years 5 years 10 years old kids, I match their level of talking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone say what is the difference between a BA and a BS in Econ? My student is very strong in math and is looking at Econ as a second degree choice after Math.

It’s not about the degree type, but the actual courses. Any Econ program without econometrics, advanced econometrics, linear algebra, time series, and probability required or heavily suggested is a complete wash of a degree.

Again, not true. Lots of career paths are not that quantitative and do not require all of this. If you want to do quant stuff, by all means do as much math as possible, but it is not some universal thing.

So much bad info on this thread from bitter quants.

Why would any quant be bitter? Their job is awesome.

Because the econ grads ended up making more than them.

Doubtful. Few people are making more in a lifetime than the type of people making it big at Citadel.

The management of Citadel are almost all econ and business majors, including Ken Griffin.

[Anonymous]

The people making Starbucks barista jokes in this thread clearly have no clue. This isn’t about gender studies majors. Econ majors from Wall Street feeder schools like Penn, Dartmouth, Duke, UChicago, Bucknell, and Williams/Amherst walk right into $150K+ IB/MC jobs with just a bachelor's degree. A finance degree, which is really just a watered-down econ degree, doesn’t offer the same level of opportunity. Accounting is great if you want to start in audit at a Big 4 and either aim for partner or transition to industry and work your way up to CFO, but it's meaningless on The Street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people making Starbucks barista jokes in this thread clearly have no clue. This isn’t about gender studies majors. Econ majors from Wall Street feeder schools like Penn, Dartmouth, Duke, UChicago, Bucknell, and Williams/Amherst walk right into $150K+ IB/MC jobs with just a bachelor's degree. A finance degree, which is really just a watered-down econ degree, doesn’t offer the same level of opportunity. Accounting is great if you want to start in audit at a Big 4 and either aim for partner or transition to industry and work your way up to CFO, but it's meaningless on The Street.

That joke was towards humanities majors but did your kid go to Bucknell

[Anonymous]

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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.

LOL history humanities wtf lol

The type of idiotic common one should expect from an Econ major.

dp... ok, but Econ majors get jobs, and history majors don't, without a grad degree.

The ROI on an econ major > >>> than a history major.

So, who's the dumb one?

The person who hates their life so much that they have to chase every nickel to spend on fleeting moments that temporarily numb the pain of existence.

hey humanities major say hello to Starbucks

I went from lower/middle to UMC. Believe me, I love my life now. You know when I hated life.. when I was dirt poor. That's your kid's future, unless you have family money, in which case, how privileged you are to not have to be concerned with getting a decent paying job like most of us do.