Majors to go into

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Content strategy is highly paid / in demand field, not just from media companies, but most ad agencies as well as most brands, from traditional companies like P&G and Coca Cola, to tech companies and DTC. A journalism major with a minor in data/ statistics would lend itself well for a content strategy role. Similar to working for an ad agency, journalism isn't very well paid the first few years, but then you can make a big leap in salary to management / strategic role. For context, I owned a digital media company. The people who worked for me as editors/ writers were earning $60 - $80k, but now that they have 7+ years under their belt, they have moved on to bigger content strategy jobs earning $175k+

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Anonymous wrote:A degree in business administration (worthless) is completely different than a degree in accounting or marketing (useful). There are about three different conversations going on here and some of you are too defensive to notice.

they are not mutually exclusive. I have a bachelor's of business administration and majored in accounting.

I think what they are trying to say is that a generic Business administration degree where there is NO focus required for a specific major (ie. Accounting/finance/marketing/data analysis/etc) is not worth as much. I know at my DC university, most Business majors get a focused BS in one of 10 areas. However, a kid can still graduate with just a bachelor in Business admin if they don't maintain high enough grades for their "major" classes---they just get the generic degree then and I would argue that that is not very meaningful, especially when an employer can easily figure out that the reason for the lack of FInancne/Accounting/Marketing degree is that they lacked at least a 2.0 in the "Finance specific courses". Then again, the low GPA will also be a huge issue for getting the first job as well

It must depend on the school. Many of the business schools I'm familiar with, such as Haas (UC-Berkeley), Ross at UMich and Kenan-Flagler at UNC-Chapel Hill, which are three of highest ranked in the country, don't offer specific majors within a business program. You just get the Bachelor's of Business Administration. I'd be willing to bet their graduates, who mostly work at companies like Apple, Goldman, Big4 firms, MBB, Microsoft, etc. don't think their degrees were "worthless."

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A degree in business administration (worthless) is completely different than a degree in accounting or marketing (useful). There are about three different conversations going on here and some of you are too defensive to notice.

they are not mutually exclusive. I have a bachelor's of business administration and majored in accounting.

I think what they are trying to say is that a generic Business administration degree where there is NO focus required for a specific major (ie. Accounting/finance/marketing/data analysis/etc) is not worth as much. I know at my DC university, most Business majors get a focused BS in one of 10 areas. However, a kid can still graduate with just a bachelor in Business admin if they don't maintain high enough grades for their "major" classes---they just get the generic degree then and I would argue that that is not very meaningful, especially when an employer can easily figure out that the reason for the lack of FInancne/Accounting/Marketing degree is that they lacked at least a 2.0 in the "Finance specific courses". Then again, the low GPA will also be a huge issue for getting the first job as well

It must depend on the school. Many of the business schools I'm familiar with, such as Haas (UC-Berkeley), Ross at UMich and Kenan-Flagler at UNC-Chapel Hill, which are three of highest ranked in the country, don't offer specific majors within a business program. You just get the Bachelor's of Business Administration. I'd be willing to bet their graduates, who mostly work at companies like Apple, Goldman, Big4 firms, MBB, Microsoft, etc. don't think their degrees were "worthless."

Absolutely depends on the program. Those schools will always produce graduates in demand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A degree in business administration (worthless) is completely different than a degree in accounting or marketing (useful). There are about three different conversations going on here and some of you are too defensive to notice.

they are not mutually exclusive. I have a bachelor's of business administration and majored in accounting.

I think what they are trying to say is that a generic Business administration degree where there is NO focus required for a specific major (ie. Accounting/finance/marketing/data analysis/etc) is not worth as much. I know at my DC university, most Business majors get a focused BS in one of 10 areas. However, a kid can still graduate with just a bachelor in Business admin if they don't maintain high enough grades for their "major" classes---they just get the generic degree then and I would argue that that is not very meaningful, especially when an employer can easily figure out that the reason for the lack of FInancne/Accounting/Marketing degree is that they lacked at least a 2.0 in the "Finance specific courses". Then again, the low GPA will also be a huge issue for getting the first job as well

It must depend on the school. Many of the business schools I'm familiar with, such as Haas (UC-Berkeley), Ross at UMich and Kenan-Flagler at UNC-Chapel Hill, which are three of highest ranked in the country, don't offer specific majors within a business program. You just get the Bachelor's of Business Administration. I'd be willing to bet their graduates, who mostly work at companies like Apple, Goldman, Big4 firms, MBB, Microsoft, etc. don't think their degrees were "worthless."

Absolutely depends on the program. Those schools will always produce graduates in demand.

right, so the declaration that a degree in business administration is "worthless" is silly and reflects a lack of understanding of the field and programs.