<p>LazyKid, "Honestly, econ degree is pretty useless. I was an econ major from an Ivy, and I know plenty of kids from my school enjoying their wonderful careers at Starbucks, GAP, Peace Corps, substitute teacher at some lousy local school, and Geico working as salesmen.</p>
<p>Only time Econ degree is useful is when you go to a ‘target’ school + have at least 3.5 GPA + interview well –> and land a consulting or finance job. Outside that, it is garbage."</p>
<p>Exactly. Personally, I have a minor in econ and I don’t really see how econ is useful in the real world. I minored in it because I found it to be more interesting than other non business related subjects. If people coming from the Ivy league schools have problems with finding an employment, can you imagine what people from the lower ranked schools face? The only thing that I don’t understand is: how come various statistics show that econ graduates have a higher starting/mid career salary than all of the business majors, including FINANCE and ACCOUNTING??? I assume that happens because most of the IBs and consulting companies mostly recruit from Ivy league schools, and since most of the do not offer business degrees, they take econ majors instead. Any ideas???</p>
<p>By the way, check out this recent article :</p>
<p>[College</a> graduates score higher-paying jobs - Yahoo! Finance](<a href=“http://finance.yahoo.com/news/college-graduates-score-higher-paying-201300743.html]College”>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/college-graduates-score-higher-paying-201300743.html)</p>