Corporate FA
I am seeking to become a corporate financial analyst. should study business economics or finance? I attend the University of Georgia.
Is finance the preferred degree for <span class='keyword_link'><a href="/resources/careers/jobs/financial-analyst-job-description">corporate financial analyst jobs</a></span> or is a business economics and a finance degree held to the same level
Note: A finance degree would mean more time at the University of Georgia plus more debt.
Yes Finance is the preferred degree. You can maybe get away with Accounting. Way farther down the totem pole is Business Economics. It is doable but a lot harder, it is likely you need relevant internships to even be considered.
I take practically the same amount of finance related courses but I skip generic business courses such as career writing and such. Its also in the business school so I would have access to the career resources there. Plus I have looked at posts for recent job openings and a lot of employers are asking for finance, accounting, economics/related degrees.
As Someone who majored in both Finance and Business Economics and works in corp fin, I can say that both are useful, with business economics being more interesting/intellectually stimulating imo. I think you could get by with being a Business Econ major with an accounting minor (to give you the debits/credits/cost accounting side of things) if possible. The reason being, If you can understand the models in business econ (Econometrics, game theory, etc.) then financial models will be a piece of cake, and the accounting minor would let companies know you understand that side of things.
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