Double major: Finance/MIS or Finance/Marketing

Dunboyne
Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:38:44 +0000

If you think there is a very good chance you’d end up in marketing, then choose it. If you’d rather be more employable for finance, then MIS.

MIS deals more with system design, though, and it’s kind of a managerial/people track. It’s unlikely that you’d be designing/overseeing systems within finance; you’d need more of a technical background for that. Plus MIS is still a business major, so a lot of the core stuff that you’d learn in finance is going to overlap.

For those reasons, you might want to look at giving yourself more “individualistic” technical skills (outside of business) if you want to have an advantage for a finance job. A minor in math (applied math) or stats or compsci is useful. If you can swing a major in one of those alongside finance, even better, but you don’t need to overburden yourself. Whether you have the inclination for one of those subjects is an issue, as is the timing, being you’re a sophomore.