<p>Son was an econ major. Maybe some of the preference of econ vs. business can be explained by where the degree is obtained. And what courses are embedded within the degree. Son’s undergrad does nor offer a degree in business. His econ core required 4 semesters of calculus, the same calculus the engineers and physics majors are required to take. So calc through def eq. The calc courses were prerequisites for his econ courses.</p>
<p>Son was also admitted to Penn’s M&T program and one of the degrees is an econ degree from Wharton, not a business degree. When son applied to a different university for a second UG degree (his 1st school does not allow double majors) his econ major fulfilled many of his math and science core requirements for the biochem, micro and genetics degrees he obtained. His econ stats satisified their science stats, and he had plenty of math. The physics transferred in as physics for engineers not the physics for life science majors.</p>
<p>The second undergrad did offer an undergrad in business and his courses did not match up. His econ stuff was much more theoretical, more mathy, more formulas, not so much marketing, communications…</p>
<p>His buddies who also majored in econ also went on to the top 3 law schools, med schools, FBI and CIA, i-bankers in private equity and consulting. His goal is also an MD/MBA. He is soon to be an M3 and has been contacted about consulting down the line vs. establishing a practice or working from a hospital. Interesting in that I did not know such jobs existed.</p>
<p>Hope that explains some of the difference between econ and biz. It may happen to be coincidence that some of the top schools don’t offer business and instead offer econ.</p>
<p>Kat
another example: son’s high school buddy went to local 4 year for engineering degree but could not complete the math sequence through def eq so he switched his major to agri business and his roommate at same local 4 year also switched from engineering to accounting because he too could not finish the math or physics preqs</p>