Hello everyone!!! I just started a roll as a RBII at regions bank and this is my first job at banking, I am interested in growing in this industry and I sure want to go to college, one of the things that I am interested in is Being a Mortgage originator and also wealth management, what should I study in college that will help me to advance and archive those careers, I know there is a lot of professionals here! May I get your advice? I really like the banking and financial industry

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I’d say minor in Psychology/Communications and major in Economics/Finance. Or Major in Finance and minor Economics. Since wealth management is relationship based, you want to understand sales, best way to do that would be through psychology (learning how the brain reacts to certain things) or communication (for obvious reasons)

This advice is all geared towards wealth management.

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Yeah sure!

I’d say finance and economics double major would be pretty good. Finance and accounting is really sought after too. Ignore the people who tell you to major in psych to learn how to talk to people. You’ll learn how to talk to people by being in college and hanging out with people.

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And you think a degree in psych will fix that? Touch grass, nerd

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Some universities offer financial planning degrees, which would allow you to graduate with your CFP designation if you wanted to go the wealth management route! Of course, it wouldn’t help you much at all in corporate banking or mortgage lending haha. I was in a similar spot as you a few years ago, and a finance major business management minor ended up being just fine for me

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