Is Business Administration looked down as a blow off major?
Would it looked better to go into a major like
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do finance or acct
yup
nuff said
Do you think HR, MIS, and marketing are relevant to IB? Guess not.
Most people with lib arts or science (read: real college) degrees feel sorry for people who majored in business at the undergrad level. 18 is too young to stop academic study and start on practical matters; 22-24 is a superior age for the changeover.
We don't look down on people with undergraduate business degrees, because they're often just as smart as we are, so much as we feel sorry for them: they cheated themselves out of a college education. They should've taken real majors and then obtained MBAs, which pwn undergrad business, later.
Ok enough. I am in an accredited buisness undegraduate school and I do not feel cheated out of anything. This is what I chose and not an art history major. Btw at my university the engineering school and the business school are 10 times better than the liberal arts department, which is an absolutely shitty useless department (excluding mathematics). We have concentartions in finance, accounting, mis, marketing, managment & international business and you need to do a concentration. The schools' curriculam is tailored to the needs of the businesses that recruit there. I do not see anything wrong with that. I have the knowledge and skills to be placed right into a position and do not need training.
Business Administration is too general of a major. I have seen people struggle to get a job out of college even when they were not going for a position as competitive as investment banking.
Once there was a girl named Rania who graduated with a degree in Business Administration. She got a job in banking at Citibank. Later she was invited to a dinner by her coworkers. That is where she met Prince Abdullah, who is now King Abdullah. She is now Queen of Jordan.
I just wanted to add one success story to this thread haha.
My school has a dual program where you get your BA and Masters in Economics and it only requires one additional semester after your 4 years. Should I enroll in this program, or just stick to accounting or finance?
if you're going for an mba: graduate with an undergrad degree, work a few years as an analyst, THEN get the masters from a top tier school. the 4 + 1 programs are worth less. not worthless, but worth less than a real mba.
is the "best" combination...
After all it really doesn't matter that much. It's about attitude and internship experience. GPA helps.
a double major in Finance and Mathematics? If one were looking to make their way into becoming (eventually) a trader at a BB? Fin & Acct still better for this?
i look at finance and math as probably a better combination than finance and accounting. especially as a prospective trader.
how about accounting and math?
finance and accounting are PART of business administration. there are very few schools that have accounting as a separate major. most that i know have a genereal first year and then you select your "concentration" in subsequent years.
this thread didn't make sense, up until my post of course.
What school do you go to? Almost every school has accounting and finance as a separate major from Business Administration. BSBA has concentrations in stuff like management, marketing, international business, CMIS, entrepreneurship, human resource management etc.
My school is the same Finance and Accounting are part of business administration, there is no such things as a degree in finance. In accounting you still take your 24credits required for the CPA but you are concentrating in accounting not majoring.
the degree is a bsba but the major is finance or accounting
yes
if you're at a shit school, you had better take a ton of accounting and finance, and major in one of those if possible, preferably accounting.
if all they have is "business administration," study that + a minor in math if you really want your academic angle to look decent.
Fuck math, why the fuck would I minor in math? I'm not going to minor in anything, I'd rather just take accounting electives and some other classes. In fact I think I'm going to drop German 101 this week, fuck a foreign language as well, everyone speaks English.
One would generally pursue a course of study in math in order to prove that one can think abstractly, and learn abstract concepts quickly. It's a certification that you can think, as opposed to most undergrad degrees that, at best, are a certification that you have a specific, and somewhat limited, set of knowledge.
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