<p>Which provides the best long term, a business degree from a cal state or an economics degree from a UC?
and by long term internships during/after college, job opportunities, job security and the ability to work up the corporate ladder as well as admission to MBA programs also.</p>
<p>Your question is misguided because in the long run your college degree barely matters at all. A few years out of college, your work experience and job performance will far outweigh your college degree. That being said, if you are shooting for a high-profile career, it wouldn’t hurt to have a degree from a prestigious university. (I am thinking Berkeley or UCLA, not UC Merced.) </p>
<p>However, an economics degree will give you fewer options in the short term than a business degree. An accounting major is qualified for numerous paid jobs/internships after her first year in college. An economics major will have to work a bit harder to build a resume and get that first “real” job.</p>
<p>So at least for beginning a career it is a bit easier to land a job as a business major is what you’re trying to say?</p>
<p>business is easy math relating to money.</p>
<p>econ is hard math relating to forecasting the financial market.</p>