My experience (at three institutions) has been similar to Roger's --
students view the business majors as fallbacks when they can't handle
economics.
Antony Davies, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Finance, Economics, and Statistics
John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA 15282
412-396-6268
http://www.bus.duq.edu/faculty/davies
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger A. McCain [mailto:mccainra@drexel.edu]
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 2:43 PM
To: tch-econ@elon.edu
Subject: Re: Economics as part of Business or Social Science?
On 6/7/03 12:14 PM, "Stephen H Karlson" <ta0shk1@corn.cso.niu.edu> wrote:
> Professor Ali, colleagues,
>
> Your mileage may vary. Quite frequently an economics major becomes a
> fallback position for students who couldn't make it as one of the
> traditional business majors.
Quite frequently? At Drexel we instituted an economics major for the first
time at the beginning of the last academic year -- to late to recruit
freshmen -- but have acquired a substantial number of transfers, including
students double-majoring in economics and business, saying that they want
the economics credential because it is recognized as the more demanding
field.
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