UCSB (Financial Math/Statistics) v. UGA (honors, pre-finance)

firmament2x
Tue, 09 Apr 2019 04:25:11 +0000

@tmeg01 . . . I have a different view of a person who’ll eventually be going for an MBA. I think it’d be better to major in Economics or even, e.g., math and econ, which I believe UCSB offers, because it’s as you stated more theoretically based and might prepare one better for the quantitative side of a management program (even if finance does have a theoretical side inclusive of taking econ and some elementary calculus and statistics).

Additionally, If your daughter were to obtain a business finance baccalaureate at UGa, I’m not sure what the point would be in obtaining an MBA in the same, except to make her skills more marketable for a higher end job.

If she did well at SB, there would be excellent offers on table for her, even if she majored in something like applied math or engineering (cited just as examples, not relative to your daughter).

And lastly, I hope that you’d be able to cover her costs out of pocket at SB at least significantly, so she’d have very little debt at the point of graduation. This is the biggest hang-up in attending SB, obviously, because she’d have so much help coming from UGa. Just by your not stating anything about this leads me to believe that you could contribute significantly towards her undergraduate college education. If not, it should be UGa without looking back.