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.

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

Learn to read OP for G's sake!

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?

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.

Yep. Goldman just hands them out like candy.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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