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what can someone do with a degree in economics?

All my economics teachers claimed to have worked for the government and large companies and occasionally small companies.
They analyze data and help executives plan future growth and stuff.
 
My brother is doing a double major in economics and actuary sciences. Apparently there's plenty of jobs in finance for people with that background.
 
Teach Economics.
I think they are also qualified to make wild speculations about just about anything on news shows.
 
My cousin graduated with that degree about 25 yrs. ago. It took some time, but he is currently a Bank Manager with J.P.Morgan Chase. Before that with Washington Mutual. :\

Years ago he told me he "always wanted to work in a bank because that were the money is". 😀
 
With my econ degree I've:
Worked for an insurance company;
Underwritten construction projects; and
Managed for a Fortune 500 company

I then went on and got an MBA and did excise tax audits and will soon (Monday) be a Legislative liaison.
 
Econ majors from top school often get entry level jobs on Wall Street. Students from middle tier schools can get a variety of different "business" jobs at F500 companies.
 
Finance & Accounting >> Econ

Marketing & Management = Work for 3-5 years then get an MBA.


also: some schools of economics are in the social-sciences some are in the business school. If you don't have an AACSB accredited econ degree or its not from a school that impresses your grandmother then it might as well be marketing or management.
Maybe you could say an economics degree will help you do some jobs better but won't help you get a job on it's own.
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All degrees help you get a job; the more analytic the better. So a calc-heavy econ load says to me "hey, this guy knows how to think".
 
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HendrixFan said:
One of those majors is more important than the other.
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It's true, but the economics degree (he's getting a BS, not a BA) sets him up very nicely to use the actuary degree in better paying jobs.

I guess that's a good point though. Maybe you could say an economics degree will help you do some jobs better but won't help you get a job on it's own.
 
largely depends on how heavy the math load is. a lot of economists are involved in climatology because econometrics works for that. a friend of mine is a clinical statistician, her undergrad was economics.

iow, economics can run from the good ol' MRS social science fluff degree to the edge of a hard math degree, with a large sprinkling of b-school good ol' boy networking in the middle.
 
probably work in accounting or finance or banking.

its a pretty broad field, and from what i remember a fairly easy major (no papers to write, no research to do, no labs to complete) generally so i remembered it as a place people majored when they wanted to do something respectable sounding and had no idea what they wanted to do with their life. i had a required minor for computer science and did econ. i guess if you actually liked it you could work for like places that do economic projections too. from what i remember given sadly most of the people in my econ classes were horrible at math, it was mostly at best calculating some equation and projecting where that line went if x approached infinity which most smart 9th graders can probably do but hey these people get to tell us what will happen and draw charts on CNBC.

But yeah i've got a cousin who majored in that, he worked in finance and hated it, and now is basically an assistant to the sports agent company lebron uses.

and one of my friends majored in that, never did anything finance related and does software QA.
 
my boyfriend has his undergrad in math and a master's in econ.

he's a financial analyst on Wall Street.

makes great money, but hates his job (but, he won't make the same money anywhere else and he's got a mortgage, so that's his life for the next 35 years)
 
slsmnaz said:
you can always go into sales. I actually worked my way into IT after that but my experience helped



wish mine did
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No you don't... Mines is a neo-con: cut taxes, increase spending. Don't want to make this P&N, so just leave it at that. The best gem though is that under his guberment, he allowed 5% down, 40 year mortgages and kept them in place AFTER the US housing market crashed for a while. I'll let you figure out if we're in a bubble or not when consumer debt-to-income is about 1.5 and bungalows go for >$1 million in some cities.
 
Salary to Effort ratio is pretty high with economics I think, up there with CS and probably better than engineering. Don't do graduate econ unless its at a top school, and you intend to stay in academia.
 
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