<p>which major is harder?</p>
<p>Bus Econ, but now they’re just calling it Economics with accounting. Bus Econ/Econ is going to deal more with understanding complexer problems on a grand scale. I could also argue linguistics is harder because of mastery of it, but if you can pick up on languages easy and have good english skills then it’ll probably a breeze for that major.</p>
<p>As a former Business Econ major at UCSB, I agree with jace - a lot of it probably does depend on your strengths. For example, I don’t think I would have done as well in a major where I would have been required to take a foreign language or two, like Linguistics. For what it’s worth, I knew a fairly mathematically inclined Linguistics major who did very well in the upper division major, at least for a couple quarters. I can’t really be too helpful in saying how hard it is, though.</p>
<p>As an aside, the new Econ and Accounting major (well, I guess it’s not that new anymore) is more comparable to the old Business Econ major with the Accounting emphasis. Looking at the Econ and Accounting major sheet, it looks like four of the upper division classes are actually econ courses, one is a finance course, and seven of them are accounting courses. By contrast, the old Business Econ major did not specifically require any accounting courses.</p>
<p>Business is a joke. Linguistics is a really different subject. It’s something very few people know about, unlike business. It’s very difficult to understand linguistics because of how foreign it is.</p>