What are the best degrees?

ITT What are the best degrees to suceed in life (good work, enough money, stability and shit?

> Bonus point if you give your opinions on law and economics degrees.

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CS

Computer Sciences?

Why?

Economics with a focus in statistics/econometrics

>falling for the over-saturated code monkey meme

Enjoy minimum wage, pajeet

I make six figures right out of college faggot.

insurance/risk management double major

Not after exorbitant rent and communist taxes, pajeet. Shouldn't have gone to that java mill

I pay $1300 a month for rent, and get taxed at an effective rate of 13%.

>CS
>I make six figures right out of college.


Who makes money playing Counter Strike?

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Good Degrees List:
Electrical Engineering
Computer Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Mathematics (not good by itself), pair with Finance or Economics or CS
Computer Science (only at top schools because pajeets can't replace you then)
Finance & Accounting double major
Actuarial Science
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Bioengineering (need to go past undergrad though)

If you do finance or econ, make sure you double degree it with something quantitative or you double major it with accounting.

Absolutely this.

Math+CS/Finance/Econ makes Finance/Econ god tier.

Any quantitative degree (engineering, math, physics, CS) + Finance/Econ will do you wonders.

Actuarial shenanigans....excellent if you can handle the math+stats, seriously hard degree imo

What's theoretical and applied mechanics? Do you mean physics?

In thinking he meant mechanical engineering

>electrical engineering
>not mechanical
wew lad

you're an idiot.

We have a much greater growth in power distribution and in electronics than in mechanics.

thought same

Whats the best degree to pair with CS? I go to a technical school so there isn't economics but business with a concentration in finance, accounting, management, and 2 other dogshit ones.

Math makes a great pair, especially if you're considering grad school.

Well it depends on what you want to do.

A technical/quantitative degree like CS + the good business majors like stats, finance , accounting, econ will do you great if you want to go in to those fields and be useful to your company.

If you want to remain in the computer world math would be good, CS+EE or CE will also be good.

LOL 13% tax on 100k/year? It's almost like everyone comes here to form delusions about their own lives.

Eh my wife and I made like 147k last year and our income tax was 15%. All taxes and fees as more like 35%.

>Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
weird way of saying physics

I make around 220 a year and get taxed fucking 45%

after you have your tax free money

you buy shit you have to pay state taxes on

Medicine if you're not a pussy.

actually yes

77 degrees.

Those are pretty good.

Doing that right now. What kind of internships should I seek out for?

We really need a /school/ board

BUSINESS AND FINANCE IS THE NAME OF THIS BOARD, CANT FIGURE THAT OUT? MAYBE THE BEST DEGREES ARE NOT REALLY FOR YOU.

HOW ABOUT YOU BECOME A SOCIAL WORKER SINCE YOU LOVE SPOONFEEDING SO MUCH

FUCK
YOU

...

What about Accounting + Business Studies?

>taking job advice from Veeky Forums
>people actually defend their choices not realizing that could influence more people to enter your career/degree choice which makes you less valuable

Just go get a trade faggot, I wont tell you what I do because I want to keep my fucking job.

succeed in life and stability generally arent a matching pair.

so it depends on what your current goals are ( and remember folks, goals can change over time )

money ? banking and finance ***OR*** invent something

stability ? vet

good work ? well, both the above really revolve about having part of you in some animals ass so ...

shit ? see above.

personally, I'm not sure if degrees are worth the money any more, unless its something you really really REALLY need a degree for ( ie, vet, doctor, lawyer )

46, low 6 figures, IT, barely got out of UK equiv of high school. Hate Drake but started at the bottom now I'm here.

good luck

Personal opinion.

Law is saturated
Economics only good if you take it to Phd.

i don't know why this board has such a hard on for economics degrees. they're not half as employable as a finance degree.

law sucks and risky investment, need top grades (ie top 5% AT LEAST which is very hard or top school) and then ur stuck with 200k in loans. scholly possible but to get scholly for top schools is imposssible.

Im doing a t2 law school part time full ride while I do financial crime compliance, my route is unorthodox tho

Really? You don't know why people on a business and finance board (heh) favor an economics degree over others? Not even clue?

enjoying learning about economics and recommending it as a degree are two different things.

history and philosophy are enjoyable as academic disciplines, but they're not good degrees.

depends on where you're from.

where I live the only competent uni in the entire country has 3 economic and 10 business study programmes and finance is only interwined with economic programmes. I think most people here just refer to economic as finance degrees desu

OP here, I live in France

Try Islamic studies

fell for the foreign languages meme, just graduated

tell me its gonna be alright

Shit ... so sad user, what language?

mandarin chinese

Kek

try quantitative finance

top pay, stable, bit stresful and economic or math background needed.

Where do you live?

SVN, not that it matters

Fuck I'm so sorry

Only if you're too 5% smart, otherwise it's a waste

I did Business Studies worked out pretty good.

They always say that, but I go to adv and the college threads always slide in favor of betas whining about how they can't talk to girls

>Actuarial Science
>Mathematics

German guy here
I majored in Math/Actuarial Science

42k€ entry salary so not that great ... If you are lucky you can get 90k with 15+ exp....

Any USA Actuaries or Swiss Actuaries here? Salary ?

Im in Life

German?

How do you like being an actuary? Would you recommend it?

It depends ....
I got 9 out of 12 exams when i graduated college. I dont think that would be possible in the US or UK.
If you have to do all the exams while working it sucks major ass.

Beside the exam crap:
38 hours per week and the job is not very stressful. All in all pretty decent Job. I would do it again but im kinda pissed about my salary.

Yeah, I think in Canada the average exams someone has when they graduate is 3-4, or basically all the prelims before going life or P&C.

Shame about your salary, have you tried applying to other workplaces in order to leverage a pay raise?

Economics (or finance) doubled with history.

No joke. Econ teaches you the value of models, how to really work with data, supply & demand, distortions, etc. Nuts and bolts.

History is a huge dose of humility that teaches you what death looks like, what fraud looks like, how it can all rhyme again. In short, what change looks and feels like. Combine the two and analyze the history of financial booms/busts/sideways days and you'll recognize patterns.

Plus, history students can generally read & write like motherfuckers. Plenty of history people end up working in mayor's offices or better. Look up pic related's education.

I just graduated a few month ago. I will stay here till im a full member of DAV (german actuary assosiaction) and then im trying to go to Switzerland or whatever ...

You know if there is a chance to go to the US or Canada ? (What are the salaries in Canada btw? )

I did a fucking tourism degree, yes tourism. Basically an even meme'er version of business management. Everyone was thick as shit despite being at the best place in the country for the degree. Luckily I'm not working as a hotel receptionist or glorified waiter like the rest of my class, I'm an Oracle consultant making fairly decent bank

>Oracle consultant

Sounds chill.

I work 9-5:30, weekends off, work from home when I like, get paid dinners/drinks, converse with senior management/board members at the different firms I work with (great network) and spend 60% of my time in a meeting room contributing my ideas and browsing news website, not too shabby

I'll say it is incredibly saturated market for entry level work in North America right now, and probably for the foreseeable future. But if you wait it out a bit and decided to hop over once you have decent experience, it should be loads easier (people burn out on the exams and move into insurance or corp. finance)

Pay is decent, really takes off in 5 years or so: dwsimpson.com/salary

Here is the canadian site: cia-ica.ca/home

Can't find anything about international carryover, but I swore I heard that it should be easy to transfer credentials... as long as DAV is recognised internationally.

DAV is part of the International Actuary Assosiation

So i think time will tell if i can move... 2000€ after tax is shit in Munich

Gonna go to UCSB as a chem major.

Is it worth it when I start going into upper divs, or should I try and get out now?

What can I even do as a chem major?

Did Economics
Wound up in mortgage finance
Money everywhere
Rates are lowest in history
Fanne mae rolling out bullshit programs again
Just waiting on no verification again so I can go from middle to upper class in a year.

Seriously though, if they get rid of Doddfrank, trid, and all this underwriting bs again,moon is the fucking limit.

An engineering degree (except perhaps engineering physics) with as many business electives as possible will provide the widest array of good career paths.

to be honest it's not so much useless if you can get a job in a company that deals with the chinese though.

fucking kek, political science you retarded cuck?

This, I'm about to open up a clinic and pour all the income into my portfolio for unlimited gains.

Enjoy being scum. You know that scene in the Big Short where they are talking to those fucking moronic mortgage finance dudes in Florida, that's you.

Is a tourism degree worth it? I live by opry mills in Nashville and could potentially get a decent job there.

It depends man. The degree is full of people who dont care about their education hence why it gets mocked; group work can be a pain. However, I do have a few friends who were focused and got picked off quickly by tops tourism/hospitality employers in both corporate and customer-facing environments. One guy is a hotel manager at Hilton 2 years after graduating (big salary) and a few others work for JLL, CBRE etc.

I would say it's better than a straight business management degree because the specialisation makes you a very attractive candidate within the tourism and hospitality industry and you can climb the ladder quickly. However, breaking into other industries can prove to be difficult because at the end of the day everyone views tourism as the same - "why are you going to uni to be an air hostess?" "you don't need a degree to work in tourism/hospitality?"

I'd say think about it, it's a fairly easy degree and I somehow landed a great job with minimal effort. You don't need to do STEM degrees to be successful

Stay alive, stay alive

DId you just get an associates? And did you have any former experience in the hotel field at all?

He went to Harvard law after his arts majoing in history though

(that's how it works in US right?)

I would like any opinion about LAW and justice.

I want an opinion about psychology. Low meme replies. Half the people that mention it say it's worthless, another part of people say that it's worthless if you don't go past undergrad, and another part says it's great because they get to see "muh feels" people that wanted to be therapists fail because it isn't about just talking about feels.

markets fucked anyway, so why not? engineering bores the piss out of me anyway.

Psych can be used in management. More of a dual major thing.

Always a need for shrinks.

Just dont do it as your first degree.
Even if engineering is boring it opens a few doors. Just study something productive until you're in that position you need psychology or what so ever.

Yeah, my friends dad is a psychologist and he does organisational/industrial psychology (I forgot what it's called so i hope it's one of those), he kind of does consulting work for HR teams that need to get shit sorted.

At my work there is a psychologist employed as a HR person that will evaluate employees and what not.

>engineering bores the piss out of me anyway.

CompE here. So many people drop out because they just see the paycheck at the end and don't realise that they will need to alot more study than the average uni student.

Yeah this.

I totally agree that he should do something that will get him jobs and engineering is super safe, but, business degree + psych with honours = good management or HR role that he will actually enjoy other than learning about programmable logic design or thermodynamics.

Lawfag here.

1) If you don't have relatives or any way to engage in nepotism, don't even think about it. It's very difficult. You get hired only if you know someone because it's super competitive. That's why all the lawyers are jews - it's not because they are so super smart but because people at lawfirms hire their relatives.

2) to tell you the truth, it's not that interesting either. Lots of very boring shit you have to read (it's not even good writing like some novel), VERY long hours. Of course if you get associate at some big law firm you get paid a lot, but it's literal hell as it has got to be the worst office job on the planet.

3)with very rare exceptions, law school (at least in the US) is literally an SJW nightmare with civil rights and feminism all being serious topics. Humanities in general are like that, but in law it's even worse because all the profs are hardcore SJWs.

I will go into investment banking

I am majoring in Econ. Would pairing with finance or accounting prepare me more

STEM

Everything this user has said is absolutely 100% true. I have Law friends and they say the exact same, from a variety of unis as well.

I'd advise you to look at what textbooks for law look like and what kind of assignments/essays you will be needing to write for your final exams. If you absolutely don't have a 100% commitment, 100% passion and nepotism or 4.0GPA while being the best in the country for chess under21's then I wouldn't do it.

ok

It doesn't matter, they will train you there.

I wouldn't be so cocky about going in to IB. You have 0 idea about how competitive it is to get a job there, I would put it above law and law as a close 2nd in hard-to-get-in-to-ed-ness.

You don't get in to IB on what degree you pick, you get in to IB by being at a target school with lots of extra curricular and a strong GPA. The only place of an IB your degree kind of matters is markets and I only say that because the quantitative side of it & algorithmic side of markets basically hire from EE's, CompE's, CS and then every other type of quant degree at a close 2nd then all the rest at 3rd.

Ah I had no idea banking would be so competitive. I figured the fear campaigns on it would make people steer from it a bit more. I mainly want to go into careers where I get to negotiate and work around people a lot. thought IB would be one(I may have been wrong)

I will still aim for the stars but am a firm believer in having a plan B, C, and D. Thank you

> I had no idea banking would be so competitive.
Is this a joke? lol

Nothing wrong with aiming for it, don't get me wrong. You may as well, the worst that happens you "fall short" of their expectations and you end up doing the same stuff at a less prestigious company for less hours and less pay.

IB you absolutely have to interact with people all day. The more consulting/legal side of IB you sometimes have to have 8 hour meetings with a company you are talking with and often other IB's as they collaborate together on the one client (it sounds weird but it happens). You really have to work around people in IB and it could be a good career for you, but, it is super hard to get in to.

I wouldn't recommend it for those that IB's don't pick anyway. You have to work extreme hours and the very experienced HR people decide who they think can last, thus, they pick workaholics.

If you want a people based job I would recommend accounting. I worked at an accounting place and there is a fair amount of client interaction, working around your clients and your team and the broader firm. Safe career, slightly above normal hours, if you become partner you will be raking in lots of money.

Thank you very much for your insight

I would do econ+accounting, simply because you can fall back on accounting easier than it is to fall back on finance from IB. Econ is kind of like finance anyway, finance used to just be a branch of economics until like the 50's or something where they seperated in to different fields.

Econ+Finance will be fine, just maybe less accounting places will want to hire you without a CPA or CA (I forgot what ones what)

If you get some work experience ASAP, have a skill set (programming is probably the easiest skillset to get and is impressive to normies), extracurricular and good grades you will be fine.

what country is this?

Any recs on what to double it up with? I pretty much don't care about getting a large amount of money like most engi's do. I took a basic course in it just to make sure I am not going to have to suffer for four years, and one of the first questions the teacher asked was "How many of you guys are doing this for the money?" and "How many of you guys are doing it because yayengineering?"

Almost the entire room raised their hands for the money part.

For my undergrad internship I was bitch boy at an investment firm. Do whatever you want, big nig.

What do you fags think about chemistry?

is this a biased list towards business cause of the thread category?

LMFAo

because no numbers involved its like reading a interesting book

being a consultant is pretty shit dude