What subjects should I choose to study Economics and Business?

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  1. SPark9625's Avatar
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    What subjects should I choose to study Economics and Business?
    Hi, I'm a 10th grader and now I'm becoming 11th, and I'm having some struggles which subjects I should choose.

    I was actually going for computer science, but in my country (S. Korea, although I I'm living in Germany right now), computer science is not so well treated, and therefore, I would like to study economics and business later on which is better than Computer Science, at least in S Korea.

    I'm wondering which subjects I should choose to study economics or business later on.

    I already chose Math, German B HL, and English A, History SL.

    This leaves me with 2 more subjects - 1 HL and 1 SL

    I have the following choices:
    -Physics
    -Biology
    -Chemistry
    -Business Studies

    I got all 7s in all three sciences in the grade 10 final exam, and therefore how tough each subjects are dont really matter, and I'm not sure which science I should go for. I like all three sciences, but Business Studies seems also quite attracting since I would like to study Business later on. But the problem is that only four people (excluding me) applied for Business Studies, and because so less people are taking Business, it is run as an online course, and we are going to have regular meetings, and Im not sure if I could concentrate in that condition.

    Therefore, I would like to ask you which 2 subjects I should take among these four: Phys, Bio, Chem, Business

    Thank you for your help
  2. imdhia's Avatar
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    Re: What subjects should I choose to study Economics and Business?
    Hi there, well the most related one is definitely Business studies and to me, the most logical sciences are bio and phys and I like phys best. If I were you I would take phys.

    Oh, since you live in Germany, I would like some information about studying in Germany please? :3
    thank you
  3. SPark9625's Avatar
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    Re: What subjects should I choose to study Economics and Business?
    Thanks for your reply.

    But after reading some other threads, I decided not to take Business Studies, because universities do not prefer Business Studies since they do not regard it as an academically tough subject(Business Studies is also run as an online course, and I also am not so sure that I can do great in that circumstances) Also, I like physics very much, and I also am a math-science person, but still I think I will choose biology to give some diversities.

    Oh, and studying in Germany... Well I've never studied in UK before so I can't really compare but I don't think that it's much different from UK schools because our school is an international school and follow the UK school system.
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