<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I will be attending University of Wisconsin-Whitewater next year and am currently trying to decide on a major. Finance interests me greatly, and I was just wondering, what do people really do with Finance degrees from schools like this (aka not Ivy League Schools)? UW-Whitewater is known regionally to have a good business school, if that makes a difference.</p>
<p>Also, would these careers also be attainable with a degree in accounting? Which is better?</p>
<p>Another very good question.</p>
<p>Yes, every job a Finance major can get, an Accounting major can also get. An accounting major will also have an advantage over a Finance major for the Finance jobs, especially when coming from a lower-level school.</p>
<p>If majoring in Finance, just make sure the school is truly known regionally by EMPLOYERS. I came from a school that was constantly getting free publicity from the local media, calling it a great school. It was also AACSB accredited and listed in lesser known (non-USNWR) rankings. It routinely had alumni from other cities in the region coming back to speak at the school, touting how great its reputation was elsewhere in the region (of course, they were getting paid for their time…wonder if that influenced what they said). They never fooled me personally (although when I first entered, I thought it was somewhat better than it was), but for reasons beyond my control, I had no choice but to attend there. I am still unemployed, and the vast majority of everyone else that graduates from the school struggles to get anything beyond minimum wage, except for the high-performers in Accounting and Chemical Engineering. Even other engineering majors and CS majors struggle.</p>
<p>So make sure that your school is truly reputable in the region and it is not just a big, all-too-convincing show. It worries me a great deal that it is not even listed on the national USNWR rankings anywhere, but only in the regional rankings. I know you are primarily concerned with regional, but most USNWR regionals are below the region’s USNWR national(s) in reputation, and many USNWR nationals only have regional reputation. So naturally, many USNWR regionals do not actually have much regional reputation.</p>