<p>I am a rising sophomore at Penn State and am currently undecided within the business school. I still have to take more classes to find specifically what I want to end up majoring in (I am taking my first finance class, accounting class, business stat class, etc next year) but what I want to know is that if I decide to study say Finance, Enterprise Risk Management, Accounting, or even Economics, would doing well in these majors prepare me for graduate school?? I am aware that some people take Math/Engineering heavy undergraduate studies and then go to graduate school for their MBA, but doing that isn’t interesting even though it might better prepare me for grad school. I myself want to go to graduate school and continue to learn what I find I enjoy the most. Will taking these business majors at the undergraduate level prepare me to get into graduate school? Will the higher level Finance or Accounting classes have enough math background? What kind of minor might help? The highest calc based math class for these majors at my school is only Calc I. Would it benefit me to take more math/statistics classes even though they might not be required? How important is CS? I took one major-level CS class my freshman year and absolutely hated it, not because it was particularly hard, but just really boring, and a waste of time in my opinion.</p>
<p>Are you aiming for an MBA or PhD program?</p>
<p>I’m very much thinking MBA, which is what most people do right? but it’s still so early for me I’m obviously not 100% sure.</p>
<p>Then you don’t need that extra stuff. All types of majors get into MBA programs. I would concentrate on securing a nice job because job experience is important for MBA admissions. </p>
<p>If you were doing a PhD or a quantitative program like MFE then additional math or computer science would be good.</p>
<p>It will prepare you for a job, and the job will prepare you for the MBA. Do not skip the job part, that is crucial.</p>
<p>thanks for the input guys</p>