Best majors for non-target(UConn)?
Hello everyone,
I presently attend a Community College and I will be transferring to a non-target soon (University of Connecticut). If I could get some input into what I should major in? I was thinking Finance/Accounting duel major, or maybe something like Finance/MIS. Granted my school is good, but not the best I figure I should ask you guys what would make me more competitive and more likely to earn more, whether it be in IB or corporate.
I am presently taking all my core classes as well as some accounting classes at CC, my GPA is 3.77 if that matters.
Also, I'm new here, where should I go to ask where I should apply for internships in CT?
I hear wall street actually prefers engineering majors over business majors. engineering majors have technical skills (math skills, computer programming skills) that business majors lack.
Connecticut is actually pretty solid for real estate if you wanted to give that program a look.
Finance is more focused towards investment analysis, asset management and wealth management. Good background for the CFA, leads to some corporate finance roles like GE FMP given a 3.9+ gpa. Accounting leads to big 4 audit with a good GPA but isn't as "easy" as finance and might be troublesome if you don't graduate with the 3.7+ necessary for pwc, deloitte or kpmg. MIS leads to solid corps like IBM, GE and UTC but is obviously IT and not "wall street" if thats what your going for. Economics/Math double majors or engineers actually place best imo - into boutique PE/HF but is obviously a lot harder to get a 3.5+ in.
FMP requires a 3.9 ? since when? lol
accounting is strongest in the biz school followed by finance for corp finance positions-- MIS is strong too. real estate has very solid placements from uconn if you grind it out. are you at capital or manchester norwalk asnuntuck etc?
3.9 for FMP just isn't true.
Thanks for all the replies so far guys! I thought about Engineering or Math, but I really don't enjoy math unless there is money involved (in which case I love it).
I'd prefer to stay in the Finance range of things, honestly I just want a job where I have to work hard but get paid well for it. I'm not too picky yet because I have no experience at all. I don't mind accounting but it seems to reach a cap salary-wise after a certain point (unless you open up your own practice), feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though!
Basically what I'm looking for is a combination to give me the best return on investment in Finance, nothing specific at the moment. I guess you can say I'm looking for some guidance haha
Any links or other information or somebody new-ish to the Finance major would also be helpful.
@shorttheworld
I'm from New Britain, I go to Tunxis at the moment.
are you a URM?
URM? I'm not familiar with the term, and Google points me to several meanings haha.
He's asking if your African American, Native American or Latino - urm means underrepresented minorities in finance
If you're asking about my race I'm a US/Polish citizen so I'm as white as can be. If' you're not asking about that then I have no idea what URM means.
Just major in finance or accounting (unless you love real estate - then pick the reus major). Finance if your interested in investments or transactions (ibd) or accounting if your interested in big 4. They are both equal to each other in terms of usefulness for getting a job, but if your on wall street oasis and interested in finance - people may ask you later on in interviews why you didn't major in it in college.
Well like I said I'm pretty much European so I doubt that'll be of much help, unless Poland decides to become an economic superpower overnight and the Finance Industry starts needing Polish speakers.
So you're saying there isn't much of a benefit in dual majoring? I don't mind the extra workload if it would make me more competitive, though if it doesn't help at all then I won't bother. I'm just worried because I heard the Finance field is saturated. Any truth to that? Last thing I want to do is graduate and not be able to find a job.
Also forgot to mention I don't really know much about Real-Estate, wouldn't taking that pretty much mean I'm stuck in Real Estate?
no only major in real estate if your interested in it. The only reason you would major in RE is because it has the best placement of all the business majors (because only a few schools offer it). If your not interested in real estate then major in finance or accounting.
i dont think that you can actually double major or double degreei n the school of business at uconn -- maybe ts the later.
czesc papa jak tam
look into the student managed fund, youre going to be a rising junior there at uconn right? interesting to see how many huskies are on here lol
I believe you can double major, at least that's what I heard..I'm afraid my lack of research is showing. I see the term "rising (insert year" a lot around here, what does that mean exactly? Does it just mean I am moving up to next year? I'm sorry for all the questions, I need to get caught up on all the terminology around here hahhaa. I will be either a sophomore or junior depending on how my credits transfer.
I'm hoping to do whatever classes I can at Tunxis/ Uconn West Hartford and do only what I have to at Uconn Storrs, tuition is expensive so I'll be driving there :X
Hahha papa? First time I heard that, you Polish too? There's a lot of us in New Britain. Yeah it's pretty cool theres some Uconn guys on here, when I joined I was worried it'd be all Ivy league people on here.
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