Is a business major for dumb kids?

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Anonymous wrote:Old timers still living in the 70s, please stop posting.

You can live in denial or try to better understand multiple opposing views.

It's not about views.
We go by data.
In 2024, if a school has Business program, it's more competitive and harder to get in. It produces better outcomes.
Thus students in the business programs are smarter on the average.

That isn’t what the data shows at all.

It is. Anybody can any any view. who cares.
You need to have higher stats to get into business program directly.
Some programs don't even offer direct admissions, and you have to apply again in your first and 2nd year.
You need maintain high or near perfect GPA and all the other stuff.
It's just a fact and truth. It's got nothing to do with views.

There are just a limited amount of undergraduate business programs in the country.

Most colleges don’t think it is worth offering undergraduate business degrees in the first place. If you want to be proud of that, go for it.

The overwhelming majority of top colleges do not offer undergrad business degrees. The few that do have limited spots.

Half of T25 schools have it. Rice recently began undergrad business program. Brown started business track.
If schools have it, it's considered competitive prestigious programs.

+1 even more LACs are offering it (while at the same time dropping some humanities majors).

Those other big name schools will eventually start offering it, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Old timers still living in the 70s, please stop posting.

You can live in denial or try to better understand multiple opposing views.

It's not about views.
We go by data.
In 2024, if a school has Business program, it's more competitive and harder to get in. It produces better outcomes.
Thus students in the business programs are smarter on the average.

Your reasoning continues to be poor. Stop repeating this drivel over and over.

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The goober who started this thread never took an undergraduate level accounting or finance course.

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Anonymous wrote:The goober who started this thread never took an undergraduate level accounting or finance course.

+1 Obviously.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of a business major getting a PhD.

I went to a business school at a liberal arts college and majored in Econ. I had to take liberal arts core, business core, and econ major courses. I went on to get a Phd in Economics after having a job for a well regarded corporation for 3 years. In college, I liked thes blend of learning about business and liberal arts - but my passion was economics. Looking back on the mind of a 17yr old - I originally chose the business school because I thought I wanted to do something "international" and that's where international courses seemed to be. Then I took economics and found my passion - I did very well as an undergrad (top 1% of my class) and in a top graduate school. Business school isn't for dumb kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of a business major getting a PhD.

What would be the point?

Smart people can finish a PhD in 4 years and it is miles ahead of a masters degree.

4 years is enough time to be a senior manager or VP with the MBA

The MBA took 2 years though. They could have earned PhD in 4 years instead.

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IDK why you are harping on pursuit of a PhD?? Business kids don’t pursue PhDs. They pursue $$. PhD’s are for the snotty academics who think they are elite, but find themselves middle aged realize that their intelligence lacked common sense so they currently make less than a newly minted undergrad.

I know lots of PhDs making 7 figures but okay.

Oh you know Lots, sure you do. 3 F500s later and I know Hundreds of VPs and Csuite who have cashed in with a ‘measly’ MBA. LOL You’re probably one of those PhDs that claims Dr on your email signature line. Puke. There’s a reason there aren’t many of you at the top of the big companies. Out of tune out of touch.

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Anonymous wrote:The goober who started this thread never took an undergraduate level accounting or finance course.

Yup. Probably didn’t take Micro Macro or Stats either.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of a business major getting a PhD.

What would be the point?

Smart people can finish a PhD in 4 years and it is miles ahead of a masters degree.

4 years is enough time to be a senior manager or VP with the MBA

The MBA took 2 years though. They could have earned PhD in 4 years instead.

DP
IDK why you are harping on pursuit of a PhD?? Business kids don’t pursue PhDs. They pursue $$. PhD’s are for the snotty academics who think they are elite, but find themselves middle aged realize that their intelligence lacked common sense so they currently make less than a newly minted undergrad.

I know lots of PhDs making 7 figures but okay.

Oh you know Lots, sure you do. 3 F500s later and I know Hundreds of VPs and Csuite who have cashed in with a ‘measly’ MBA. LOL You’re probably one of those PhDs that claims Dr on your email signature line. Puke. There’s a reason there aren’t many of you at the top of the big companies. Out of tune out of touch.

You have issues. The retail clothing store worker who usually helps me has an MBA from HBS. Defending the MBA is a lost cause and not the topic of this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of a business major getting a PhD.

They get an MBA, dummy.

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Oh come on. We all know what s/he meant. I think an early PP said it best- not so theoretical, more practical. Not dumb just realistic.

Now education majors…

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of a business major getting a PhD.

They get an MBA, dummy.

Isn’t that entirely redundant with an undergrad business degree? That is like admitting failure if the MBA is needed.

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Yes

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of a business major getting a PhD.

They get an MBA, dummy.

Isn’t that entirely redundant with an undergrad business degree? That is like admitting failure if the MBA is needed.

Since English is the first language why do some people not only do bachelors in English but do Ph.D. also? Are they so dumb? Their parents speak such poor English that they have to study it in university too? See, where your kind of thinking gets you to?

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of a business major getting a PhD.

They get an MBA, dummy.

Isn’t that entirely redundant with an undergrad business degree? That is like admitting failure if the MBA is needed.

Since English is the first language why do some people not only do bachelors in English but do Ph.D. also? Are they so dumb? Their parents speak such poor English that they have to study it in university too? See, where your kind of thinking gets you to?

I have been directly told by multiple undergrad business school grads that an MBA would be completely redundant, but okay.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of a business major getting a PhD.

What would be the point?

Smart people can finish a PhD in 4 years and it is miles ahead of a masters degree.

4 years is enough time to be a senior manager or VP with the MBA

The MBA took 2 years though. They could have earned PhD in 4 years instead.

DP
IDK why you are harping on pursuit of a PhD?? Business kids don’t pursue PhDs. They pursue $$. PhD’s are for the snotty academics who think they are elite, but find themselves middle aged realize that their intelligence lacked common sense so they currently make less than a newly minted undergrad.

I know lots of PhDs making 7 figures but okay.

Oh you know Lots, sure you do. 3 F500s later and I know Hundreds of VPs and Csuite who have cashed in with a ‘measly’ MBA. LOL You’re probably one of those PhDs that claims Dr on your email signature line. Puke. There’s a reason there aren’t many of you at the top of the big companies. Out of tune out of touch.

You have issues. The retail clothing store worker who usually helps me has an MBA from HBS. Defending the MBA is a lost cause and not the topic of this thread.

Please see a reputable psychiatrist the earliest, for your family’s sake.