Double majoring confusion.?

By and large a 4 year degree in just about any discipline can translate into a career in retail management. My wife got her degree in PSYC and her first job was in Human Resources for a Target store. I had a BS degree in History and was consistently asked to go in to management for Olive Garden Restaurants. So don’t necessarily think that you have to have a business degree to work in management positions at a variety of businesses…especially service industry businesses such as retail and restaurants. Businesses want managers with good communication skills and at least a basic understanding of budgets and such. Each business tends to train managers to do things “their way” anyway and really look at oral and written communication skills first and foremost.

If you want to go into marketing specifically, than you would want to go in to a marketing program (usually in business schools). “Marketing” itself as taught in most business schools will focus on the finance and accounting aspects of the marketing industry though and usually require some advanced math courses (finite math for instance) to complete the degree.

If you are more interested in the creative side of marketing (usually located in “advertising” programs in journalism schools or in art and design departments), than the communication skills will be the most important and advancing your skills in digital design programs and such.

As far as “should you do the double major”? If you want to go in to business management by obtaining a business degree, the second major won’t matter to an employer at all really…or at least no more than a minor and those don’t matter much unless they are in a foreign language/especially Spanish these days. If you can complete the double major in the same amount of time as doing the single major you most want, than you might as well. If completing a PSYC degree would mean staying an extra semester or year above and beyond completing the other degree you want (in business or marketing or advertising), than I wouldn’t bother unless you still were unsure which field you would want a master’s degree in or something.

Ask your financial aid office about when your grants will end. Unless you have a ton of credits or you start earning a bunch more money they should be available (on a first come first serve basis usually) until you complete your bachelor degree. I think they stop at 150 or 170 credits…which usually only 120 are required to get a bachelor degree at most universities.

Does that help?

As of your financial aid- -here is the thing. Most Universitites accept up to 70 units of transfer credit. Also, this is where your community college grant runs out. However, you can still receive some type of government aid at the University while working on a bachelor’s degree.

Without knowing your school my guess would be that your best course of action would be to, once at university, major in business and that your psych/science courses will count towards your general studies requirements. You may even have enough classes already to minor in psych.

I would really recommend against getting a degree in psych unless you are planning on attending grad school for psych or going to med school. A business degree may take a little more time and money but you will have more and higher paying job options once you graduate.

just make sure u can manage your time for both.

or u not gonna make it