经济的出路总是不如金融的好吧？！

renprince

总是觉得这样呢
可是我觉得学经济还是蛮有意思的啊

win997

an economics major is as good as a business major. there're a lot of people out there, who believe they'll start to make millions on wall street after a finance phd. but that's totally wrong. what a finance phd prepares you is to do research, on thearetical level. it gives a set of tools you need to work in academia. Technically, a physics or math phd is better positioned to work in industry, i.e.investment banks and hedge funds. i am an economics undergraduate major in one of the ivies. i realize finance is getting way too hot than it should be. that's a bad sign, just like IT, if you recall. anyone who really knows his stuff can certainly find a decent job regardless what her major is.

cello82

以下是引用win997在2003-6-2 5:08:00的发言：
i realize finance is getting way too hot than it should be. that's a bad sign, just like IT, if you recall. anyone who really knows his stuff can certainly find a decent job regardless what her major is.

true.

cello82

以下是引用renprince在2003-6-1 14:20:00的发言：
总是觉得这样呢
可是我觉得学经济还是蛮有意思的啊

u cannot predict what the future is like, so why not just do what u really love to do.

win997

One more thing to add, you do get more money, in terms of montly stipend, if you are in a finance phd program. But the job prospects are similar. Be a professor is the choice most people make (or should we say the only choice they have. I am not completely positive with that assumption.) Don't take for granted to teach in a business school after a finance phd. A lot of econ phd with finance concentration are also competing with you. so quite a lot of finance phd just teach economics, i.e. courses related to finance in colleges.

win997

i agree with cello82. you never know what future is like until you get to that point. so do something you are passionate and happy with makes a lot of sense.

renprince

so i think to get the financial aid to  pursue Economics Ph,d is better than transfering my major to finance master degree without the offer