USC (Economics) vs. Penn State (Finance)

zdmw93
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:10:23 +0000

An economics degree is obviously not as valued as a finance degree when it comes to investment banking. A finance course generally teaches you more specific skills than economics, and those specific skills will help make you a more valuable asset to any workplace. Then again, if you want to do investment banking, I don’t see why you would want to go back to SoCal, since it’s not a huge financial hub like New York is.

In the case that you choose NOT to do I-banking, I think an economics degree from USC might suit you a little better. Ideally, switch from CLAS to Marshall when you enroll at USC. I don’t know how easy the process is for transfers, but all I did was shoot Marshall an e-mail and they switched me over in less than a week.