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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  It's really frustrating to ask a question like this (please pick A or B) and then to have people chime in with Z.

04/14/2021 17:28 , thank you, I'll pass that on.

Whatever makes her happiest is obviously one of those two, which is why she asked.  They majors sound specific because that is what the university calls them.

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NP.  The issue is that (1) they sound rather narrowly-focused, and (2) employers may not be familiar, at first glance, with what these majors entail.  Intuitively, her situation for employment might be more flexible with a more typical major, with an added focus or concentration, something an employer can understand at a glance.

"Environmental econ and mgt" sounds more like environmental.... policy, maybe, not actually economics.  Advertising is a subfield of marketing, for which a broader marketing degree with a focus or concentration in advertising courses might be a more...marketable way to describe it (pun intended).[/quote]

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