Do you /did you study finance in college?
Do you /did you study finance in college? Or did you study something else and managed to get into the industry regardless?
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My group has plenty of non finance majors in the analyst class
I went to a liberal arts college and studied physics but got a FT offer
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Math major here
I would assume most people don't since only a couple target schools even offer finance majors
A lot of schools have undergrad finance:
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-finance
So would you recommend non-targets exclusively study finance and/or accounting or it doesn’t matter anymore?
I said target schools, obviously a ton of schools have finance majors if you remove that qualification
Studied finance and went into real estate instead of traditional finance.
i think the best approach is to major in something interesting / non business related in undergrad, graduate in 3 years ideally, if possible, then do a 1 year masters in finance
Non-Finance undergrad. But one of my MBA majors is Finance. Took only one business class in college and it was my senior year last semester.
I had an epiphany that I realized I truly hated my STEM major during my senior year (but decided to push through rather than taking on a 5th year which I did contemplate briefly). The intro to business class I took my last semester on a whim was really interesting. Business / Finance was legitimately one of the best programs at my school (outside of engineering) that placed better than most majors including mine for employment.
Legitimately had a "wtf did I just do for the last 4 years" moment at graduation.
It doesn’t matter - most people suck at the job in the first half year regardless and then everyone’s fairly similar by 1.5 yr
College is meant to learn stuff you want to learn, build friendships and grow as a person.
Best way to do that is go somewhere fun, study something you're interested in, and if you want to work in finance then take some courses or do a masters in finance after undergraduate
Majored in accounting and IB interviewers always skipped the dreadful accounting part of the interview bc they thought i knew more lmao when i actually didn’t
It's a good thing they didn't give you harder ones because they assumed you knew more aha
There are all sorts of people in finance, from those with a PhD in statistics to a degree in music. Study what you enjoy, just aim to get into a target (but not the end of the world).
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