I just finished my studies in industrial engineering with finance and economics orientation and have no work experience. I’m interested in a career in finance but really don’t know what to do: go right now for a MSc Finance or work for 2/3 years and then go for the MBA. What should you recommend me?
In addition, is there any MBA program that I can apply to without previous work experience?

I relate more easily to finance but I think it’s just an easier degree.

I’m certainly not passionate about engineering but I can be interested.

I didn’t do well in the hard sciences in high school but then again I never studied.

Corporate finance: Easy for me (as for most people). I can finish a 4-year degree in 3 years (including one year of internships) and add another year of internships for good measure, graduating with 2X the work experience of my colleagues. And then go for an MBA. But, there are zillions of finance graduates. A job, if I find one (which is hard), would start at around ,000.

I don’t really know if I have the charisma, persuasiveness and social skills that are essential to make it big in finance as a stock broker, investment banker, hedge fund manager, etc. I’m a loner.

Petroleum engineering: Very difficult and boring if I don’t get really involved from day one. I can finish a 4-year degree in 3 years if I kill myself, but not with internships. It’s not hard to find internships after graduation, though. The subjects would be challenging but I think as long as I attend my lectures and labs and do my coursework I’ll be fine. Jobs are supposedly plenty and a salary can start at ,000 or more. I even heard of some 0K starting salaries.

I don’t need to be a great people person. I get paid well to do important and specialized work.

With an engineering degree an MBA is still possible, but not the other way around. I can look for a job and do my MBA at the same time — the salary would be enough.

I’m starting college all over again at 22 and I want to make the right choice this time. I want to be a wealthy worker.

Ok I’ve been going to college studying finance for 3 years and I finally had an ephyany and decieded to follow my lifetime dream of becoming a doctor. What are some classes I should take before I finsh my degree to aid me in Med School. I want to be a Nuerosurgeon, does anyone have suggestions about good schools.

I have an interest in economics, though people say that the jobs that come from it are boring (research and whatnot)… I wish I could really see what one of those jobs would be like.

On the other hand… I’m considering finance, most of the people I talk to about it push for finance because ‘there’s more money and more job opportunities’.

I would really like to study law, and I hope that after 3 years and I get my BA, that I still have the discipline to continue school (for another 4 years). Though I am pretty ambitious.

I think that if I did economics, it would be a great background for continuing into law.

I’ve seen a counselor at my school about this and he said there are tests I could take but it would probably just tell me that I should do a Bachelor of Commerce .. which is already what I know I’ll do, I just can’t decide what to study exactly!!

I’ve tried looking at further descriptions about the programs and the jobs they lead to but there wasn’t much.

How do I decide?

I’m in a bachelor of commerce right now but have yet to choose a specialization; right now it’s between marketing and finance.

I’m just a little scared of finance. Everyone’s told me it’s super hard. I’m taking a statistics class right now and I dislike it; is finance similar to stats? Is it simple math, ie + – x / or does it deal with calculus and/or algebra? What would I actually be doing?

Please help! I’m favouring finance right now because of the better money and job opportunities, and because the investments market interests me, but I don’t want to be miserable for the next 2-3 years of school. I dislike complex math.