I know the UC’s are not known for their business undergrad programs(aside from UCB). Have one in a UC now(different major). Are the only UC’s with an undergrad business major UCB, UCSD, UCI and UCR? Does anyone have any experience in these programs? What else do the students take that is similar aside from Economics? Just wondering for my next student if the UC’s make sense if they want business. Will they have a disadvantage in grad/mba program if they don’t have undergrad business class knowledge?
Only 3 UC’s have Undergrad Business Schools: Berkeley, Irvine and Riverside. UCSD’s Business school does have some Undergrad programs but considered a Graduate Business school.
However, every campus has a Business-related or adjacent majors such as Business Economics, Economics, Managerial Economics etc…
I cannot answer your other questions so hopefully other posters can help.
Business Administration major
Berkeley, Irvine, Riverside
Business Economics major
Irvine, UCLA, Riverside
Economics major
all 9 UCs
Management-related majors
Davis*: Managerial Economics
Irvine: Business Information Management
Merced: Management and Business Economics
Riverside (1): Administrative Studies/Economics
Riverside (2): Business Informatics
UCSD: Management Science
UCSC: Business Management Economics
Mathematics-Economics majors
Irvine: Quantitative Economics
UCLA: Mathematics/Economics
UCSD: Economics and Mathematics (joint major)
UCSB: Economic and Accounting
UCSC: Economics/Mathematics
Mathematics-Finance majors
Davis: Mathematical Analytics and Operations Research
UCLA: Financial Actuarial Mathematics
UCSB (1): Actuarial Science
UCSB (2): Financial Mathematics and Statistics
Depending upon the specific Business focus, the Cal states offer many options in their Business programs. Cal Poly SLO and San Diego State are known to have top Business majors.
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Look at business schools in USC and Santa Clara to see all the majors and electives that are offered in traditional business schools. At UCs, you can add electives and minors to get somewhat close to the desired business major.
For example, a traditional Management Information Systems degree at SCU would be somewhat similar to Technology and Information Management at UC Santa Cruz. With extra electives maybe it can be the same.
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A kid can never go wrong with a degree in statistics or applied math if the goal is some sort of business career.
EVERY company and function needs people with high level training in statistics. Manufacturing, design, supply chain, human resources, finance/accounting, facilities, marketing, investor relations, corporate development, sales, M&A.
So a kid who is undecided (or just doesn’t know what he or she doesn’t know) won’t go wrong with stats, applied math, or whatever it’s called at their particular college.
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Regarding MBA programs, they do not expect or require an undergraduate business or related major. (Some specialty programs like financial engineering may have undergraduate prerequisites that are not necessarily what an undergraduate business major covers.)