Econ major through the business school vs through CAS

merechaude
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 05:11:49 +0000

Basically what moranges said. The required econ courses are the same, CLAS and VSB econ majors are even in the same econ classes together. The core requirements outside of the actual major requirements are what differs. If you prefer diversifying your areas of study and taking a variety of liberal arts courses, it’ll be better to major in Econ through CLAS. The VSB core requirements are all business oriented courses with only a few required liberal arts course- many students prefer this as the VSB core is perceived to be “easier” than the CLAS core (The “easiness” of either path depends greatly on the professors you get, it’s really a crapshoot for both, but in this regard, VSB econ may be only slightly easier because a lot of the liberal arts and humanities profs have sticks up their ass, while VSB profs are a lot less tense).

The main advantage of CLAS Econ is the ease at which you can double major, a double major with degrees in Econ and Math or Computer Science will probably get a job anywhere they want, it’s impossible to do this with VSB Econ- you can only double major with another VSB discipline, which doesn’t really help tremendously

The main advantage of VSB Econ is the prestige and networking opportunities associated with VSB.