<p>what undergraduate major is most related to business or business administration at UChicago? something that is related in the field?
Thanks!</p>
<p>Elastigirl- the University of Chicago does not have any undergraduate major in business or business administration, but there are a lot of options for students interested in business. I’d say the majority of people who are interested in eventual careers in business major in economics, but there are plenty of students who major in other things and go on to careers in business. To supplement students interested in going in to business, we have CCIB (Chicago Careers in Business) which has lots of programming and advising opportunities for students interested in business fields- you can check out their website here: [Chicago</a> Careers: CCIB](<a href=“Home | CareerAdv”>Home | CareerAdv)</p>
<p>you can probably look at doing econ</p>
<p>The list of majors related to business or business administration extends far beyond economics. Most social science fields have strong business correlation, especially with management and marketing. That includes psychology and sociology (the original field of a number of famous b-school leadership gurus). Statistics would be a great major, and math skills are valued everywhere. A great deal of business involves commercialization of science, and a basic working knowledge of the underlying science is a plus. And lots of people who got their analytic and communications skills from humanities majors like English, history, classics, philosophy thrive in business using those skills.</p>
<p>I don’t want to denigrate economics – it’s a valuable tool, in and out of the business world. I have spent my adult life as a business lawyer, having been a comparative literature major in college, but the five econ or accounting courses I took in college have been helpful throughout my career. But economics is not coextensive with business, and it’s not the only valuable discipline in the business world.</p>
<p>how competitive is Chicago Careers in Business?</p>
<p>what about public policy? would that be related? and JHS, you mentioned psychology, which I didn’t really think was in the business field.</p>
<p>Public policy would definitely be related. To some extent, Public Policy is like applied economics (some would say “econ lite”, but I won’t) – doing economic analysis of big real-world problems (which to some extent means doing un-rigorous economic analysis, because the problems are too big for real rigor), and also looking at the limits of economic analysis as a tool. It’s a great pre-business major.</p>
<p>Psychology jibes with business in three important ways: 1. Management. At the end of the day, an awful lot of business success depends on how well managers get other people to implement the managers’ goals, and as an academic discipline psychology has a lot to say about that. 2. Marketing. A lot of business success also depends on getting people to buy your products, and finding out what they think about your products, and meeting their needs with new products. Psychology has plenty to say about that, too. 3. Psychology will give you as good an introduction as anything to social science methods, which (in a less-than-rigorous manner) are the models for business decision-making.</p>
<p>No matter what is the professional interest, in my opinion, everybody should take some psychology courses especially paying a lot attention to:</p>
<p>(1) developmental psychology: you would be amazed how many seemingly well functioning people show various kinds of counter productive pathologies (at work that is) due to that “inner child” who did not get what was developmentally appropriate at various stages of psychological maturing and development. If you understand your ogre of a boss’s inner child and his deficiencies, you know how to work around those and work with him.</p>
<p>(2) clinical psychology: similar to above, a lot more intense. It gives a great deal of insight on how people operate and what motivates them: both good and bad. Clinical psych does not just apply to “crazy” people. The basic tenets apply to most of the functional population. The more you understand people’s pathologies, the better you will be able to work with around, against, and for them depending on your ulterior motive :)</p>
<p>(3) social psychology: all about groups and social interaction. Applicable to all organizational settings one way or the other. It gives you great insight on how the organizations and groups operate.</p>
<p>My son, an incoming freshman is an econ major, with a psych minor (at least, that the plan now).</p>
<p>One of the hottest academic areas around these days is Behavioral Economics, which is sort of the border between Economics and Psychology.</p>
<p>yes, that’s what my S1 wants to focus on.</p>
<p>^^ Chicago’s got a corner of the market on that one. He should look into: [Participate</a> in Research - Center for Decision Research](<a href=“http://research.chicagogsb.edu/cdr/participate.aspx]Participate”>http://research.chicagogsb.edu/cdr/participate.aspx)</p>