<p>Is anything that UCSD teaches at the undergraduate level applicable to the real world? Looking through the econ department, everything that seems to be offered only prepares for you grad school, which for business is honestly quite pointless right out of undergrad.</p>
<p>Also, is it somehow possible to sit for the CPA exam coming out of UCSD? Are the classes needed to sit for it available at UCSD?</p>
<p>Is Econ…</p>
<p>Applicable? Absolutely. Theoretical? Yes. Business or accounting? No.</p>
<p>Is anything we learn in any class ever applicable? (with the exception being programming and writing)</p>
<p>The purpose of school is not to learn things but how to learn how to learn, if that makes any sense.</p>
<p>My guess is that the econ department’s purpose in teaching you is that they want you to learn how to assess economic theory and practice for yourself using knowledge such as economic history, politics, psychology, and mathematics.</p>
<p>If anything the management science classes are probably more “useful”.</p>
<p>subtle_overlord: I can’t think of a single class I’ve taken where I haven’t learned something applicable. Also, management science classes are the same as econ classes. The two majors have large overlap.</p>
<p>ECON4 and the Rady classes are the only things I would recommend as “practical”</p>
<p>But like Slorg said, I find most of my Econ classes foundations for decision-making</p>