Econ vs Finance vs Analytics Major for Consulting?

Non-target Accounting major here. Have the opportunity to double-major in economics, finance, or business analytics. My goal after graduation is in order:

  1. Consulting (MBB, B4, or other T2)
  2. IB (probably MM or boutique)
  3. Corp finance FLDP
  4. Big 4 audit/advisory

Long-term goal is MBA and either stay in consulting, F500 leadership/corp dev, or PE.

Econ major is half theory (research, intermediate micro/macroeconomics) and half quantitative (econometrics, bus analytics, forecasting). Sounds super interesting but worried that it won't be practical and not be as valuable to employers as finance, especially for ib/corp finance. Most of my school's pure econ majors seem unemployed lol.

Finance major is pretty corp finance and investment specific. Thinking it would help with my corp finance fall-back.

The business analytics major is new. It has a class in python for data analysis and a few other practical things like econometrics. Worried that this major carries no weight since they aren't very common and aren't a hard quant science degree.

 

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