Is a business major for dumb kids?

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Anonymous wrote:No. Dumb kids major in education and gender studies.

This is not true

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it that the not very bright types end up majoring in business?

because they want to make a lot of money. Not so dumb you ask me.

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Anonymous wrote:Stay away from marketing and they’ll be fine. Suggest a more quantitative track like finance but take full advantage of the networking and internship stuff and they’ll land great.

Marketing is very hot. These days they've added data analytics to the programs, and with ai probably will get even hotter.

The person I know in marketing is doing very, very well for herself. She's close to retirement at this point.

Marketing is good, avoid advertising, which is usually not in the business major, but in Communications school. At a good school, marketing majors take the same strong "business core curriculum" as a finance/accounting/real estate/entreprenuership majors---2 Econs, 2 accountings, and intro to finance, marketing, IT, etc. and then takes 5-10 classes that focus on Marketing, but really it's only 5 Marketing required and they can choose the other 5 within other areas of business. So you can tweak the major and make it much stronger with the right business electives for your 3-5 extra business courses

Exactly. No one earns a marketing degree without taking quantitative classes like finance, accounting, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:There are two tiers of undergrad biz programs. The top tier is competitive. At all the other schools, like SW Indiana State and Northern Mississippi University, it's the easiest major.

Have you ever looked at the curriculum for these state school programs? They take a bunch of surface level classes and hardly do any rigorous reading, writing, or math.

Unfortunately, very true. Less than 10 undergraduate business programs are for top students. Ay, maybe just 5-6. Wharton is the obvious best but there are many Econ degrees at schools
with no undergrad business that are light yrs harder with regards to math intensiveness than non-T5 but above- average US undergrad business.

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IME, the less bright kids majored in business or communications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are two tiers of undergrad biz programs. The top tier is competitive. At all the other schools, like SW Indiana State and Northern Mississippi University, it's the easiest major.

Have you ever looked at the curriculum for these state school programs? They take a bunch of surface level classes and hardly do any rigorous reading, writing, or math.

LOL, and what major exactly is difficult at Northern Mississippi U? I thought we were discussing whether b school students at colleges of real merit were smart. I didn’t think we were discussing whether b school students at dumb universities were dumber than all the rest of the dumb students.

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Anonymous wrote:IME, the less bright kids majored in business or communications.

But you didn’t go to Wharton right?

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All the kids that I know that majored in business were wealthy. Taking over family business and such. I always assume that it's a trust fund/class thing.

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DC, top of class in Big 3, 36 ACT score, great extracurriculars wanted analy rigor and a broad education chose not to apply to the undergrad business program at an Ivy. Thriving at the Ivy now and also taking quant courses at the B-school.

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Analytical

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I think it’s for kids who want to make decent money but don’t know other options to get there, or don’t have strong interests in other subjects.

I don’t think those kids are dumb but it’s not known for being a tough degree.

[Anonymous]

Is this AITA? If so, the answer is yes.

I don’t know what your major or gpa was…but if you need to crowdsource whether other majors are below you, I’d say yes, YATA.

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I’ve met brilliant humanities majors and not so bright STEM majors (at least not bright outside of book smarts). DCUM is such a weird place with so much black/white concrete thinking.

[Anonymous]

My kids smart and majoring in business-he is admitted into a competitive program. He just never enjoyed science and has no interest in engineering/comp sci. He’s taken all the math/science classes in high school with good grades but only wants to major in business (concentration will be finance).

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No.

22% of Harvard Business Schools incoming class had Business/Commerce undergrad majors. If these majors were so useless, you should have seen a very small % of the class coming from Business/Commerce not a quarter of the class.