Does your college major matter for finance jobs?

I am wondering: does your college major matter for finance jobs? I have heard you can learn everything needed for interviews and the FT analyst job from courses rather than studying finance in college. 
 

If so, what’s the point of being a finance major? 

 

A finance major at a semi-target / non-target is a good way to indicate seriousness. A bunch of target schools don’t have a finance major, so students tend to pick an adjacent major such as economics instead. Major choice matters less for target school students as opposed to non-target school students who may have less of a defined pipeline into IB recruiting

 

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