Econ Major

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Bucknell? You lost me.

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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?

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History majors are in demand these days at banks.....ask around and don't be so myopic.

How many of those history majors have a masters degree?

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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.

yea, my dual CS/math major junior with straight As in college, 1580 SAT, must be a dummy. /s

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

Surprisingly Google has a lot of information on this very topic.

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Econ strikes me as more academic than Business. So from a snob / academia approach - more prestigious. But... it's not my world so just another uninformed opinion from the outside looking in.

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Anonymous wrote:Econ strikes me as more academic than Business. So from a snob / academia approach - more prestigious. But... it's not my world so just another uninformed opinion from the outside looking in.

If a school has a business program, it's usually harder to get in and more prestigious than Econ in Art & Science

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Why is this chart always uploaded? It is horribly inaccurate.

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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell? You lost me.

Penn, Dartmouth, Duke, UChicago, Williams/Amherst suddenly to Bucknell.

Too obvious a kid in Bucknell.

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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!

Classic anti-intellectual dcum. Being able to do math now makes you a “math geek.” Some people are also just unintelligent PP.

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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.

Big 4 salaries are 2/3 of big consulting or big finance salaries and the gap gets wider with career progression.

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Anonymous wrote:Econ strikes me as more academic than Business. So from a snob / academia approach - more prestigious. But... it's not my world so just another uninformed opinion from the outside looking in.

The prestige of majoring in economics plus $3.25 gets you a cup of coffee.

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A Dental hygienist makes over $100000.00 a year with total studying 3 years in community college. Working 40 hours a week.
My son with double degree in economics and data science at a top 10 universities will not make that much money for his first few years.

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Anonymous wrote:A Dental hygienist makes over $100000.00 a year with total studying 3 years in community college. Working 40 hours a week.
My son with double degree in economics and data science at a top 10 universities will not make that much money for his first few years.

I know that starting salary plus signing bonus at top economics consulting firms break $100k. These are for freshly minted econ majors.

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Anonymous wrote:A Dental hygienist makes over $100000.00 a year with total studying 3 years in community college. Working 40 hours a week.
My son with double degree in economics and data science at a top 10 universities will not make that much money for his first few years.

I know that starting salary plus signing bonus at top economics consulting firms break $100k. These are for freshly minted econ majors.

+1. So do analysts at investment banks.