Best majors at ND for consulting?
I'm a freshman at ND and have to declare my major soon. In Mendoza, there is an interesting Business Analytics major, but it's a pretty new program. Additionally, I'm considering the Science-Business major, where you take all of the core science courses and all of the intro business classes in Mendoza. For someone who is interested in pharma/biotech/healthcare consulting, which major would you choose? I enjoy both science and business classes, so it's not a question of passion. Thank you!
The science business program seems super useless. Knowing basic science and basic finance is useless. Consulting firms like hard majors like math, engineering and computer science in my experience. Between the two, the business analytics seems the most useful.
I have a few close friends who went to ND, along with some former co-workers. My understanding is that the Science Business major is the pre-med track. So most students in there are going to med school rather than the corporate world. But no consulting firm is going to crap on you for doing pre med and then deciding not to be a doctor, so if it interests you, go for it.
That said, consulting tends to hire from a pretty broad range of majors - Economics, Math, Political Science, Finance, Marketing, etc. Basically anything with a bit of math and a bit of writing. I also know a guy from ND who did Philosophy who is now at a MBB, and another who studied classic literature.
People who didn't go to your school don't really know the recruiting ins and outs, nor the placement of different majors, so probably the best thing you can do is:
1) Go to your career center and look at job postings that seem interesting. Most postings list preferred or required majors. So this will give you a feel for what jobs are available for different majors. 2 Ask seniors who you know what their opinions are. They just went through, or are going through recruiting so can point you in the right direction.
Finally, for consulting (probably more so than most professions), there's really not a "set" major you have to have. Maybe for some firms, but most would rather that you get a good GPA (there are cutoffs), have some technical skills, and can talk and think well enough to get through case interviews. So my advice would be to choose a major that interests you and you can excel in rather than to pick a major for "consulting".
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