wakka

I want to go into business for grad school. Are either of these the right choices (undergrad)?

-Sociology and Managerial Studies
-Economics and Managerial Studies
-Sociology and Business (minor)
-Economics and Business (minor)

I'm really interested in Sociology though. Not as thrilled for economics....

Kulakai

Your undergrad major does not matter however some will say certain majors are better strategically speaking in the long run if you are aiming for certain industries post-mba such as ibanking.

What are your interests/passions and what sort of work would you like to do after graduation but before you do an mba?

nauru

Do bear in mind that the average starting salary for an economics grad will be roughly double that of the average sociology grad. Business will be somewhere in between the two.

Also keep in mind that economics and sociology have a huge amount of overlap in terms of the subject matter -- but economics uses almost entirely quantitative methods of investigation (sociology mostly qualitative). If you are interested in individual and/or group behavior there are entire branches of economics which specialize in this.

Behavioral economics
Experimental economics
Public choice theory
Organizational economics
Game theory
Microeconomic theory
Applied microeconomics
Labour economics
Neuroeconomics
Evolutionary economics
Economic history

As an economics student you would have access to all of these (assuming your school has a decent econ department) after you are done with the standard intro-level courses in micro and macro.

Contrary to most people's severely limited knowledge of the economics field, it's not all about money and finance. The most interesting stuff isn't directly related to money or finance at all.

If you want to go to business school then technically it doesn't matter what you study. But economics majors on average score higher than business majors, sociology majors as well as nearly all other majors on the GMAT, LSAT and GRE.