<p>Sakky, I’ve never heard of an instance where the economics program of a school is regarded as better than the business program of a school, especially at a lower end school.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is that economics teaches things that will have less real life application than the business programs, so at a lower end school where you’ll encounter bad job prospects it seems pretty likely that they would be in favor of hiring a business major because they might have to train them less (than an economics major who’s never taken any accounting or other business core classes) and it’s not like lower end jobs are going to have great training programs like i-banks or consulting firms.</p>
<p>Also note that I mentioned the fact that it’s usually due to the business program having tougher admissions standards.</p>
<p>at UT Austin the economics majors will encounter harder courses than the business majors, econ majors will have to take 3 semesters of calc (versus 2 for business majors) 4 semesters of a foreign language (versus 0 for business majors), and generally will have a tougher courses but they’re recruited worse because the economics program is in the school of liberal arts. What ends up happening is the biz students are recruited for better jobs while the econ majors end up working for Dell.</p>