Why is undergrad business considered "hard" but MBAs considered "easy"?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
| I think they're both easy. And I was a liberal arts major. |
Anonymous
|
According to this research, business students are not the brightest:
http://www.collegeconfidential.com/admit/college-major-iq/ |
Anonymous
Anything where you are responsible for p&l a business degree will service you well. If you are a deck jockey with no understanding where the money comes from that pays your salary, its not important. |
Anonymous
|
I went to Wharton. The Wharton undergrads would stay up till 2 to 3 am in the middle night working on team case studies and problem sets. It was actually very rigorous and tough.
The MBAs were out partying at social hour and drinking. We never wanted a MBA in our team because they won't pull their weight. That's why undergrad is harder. |
Anonymous
That's a good point, though the person I know who's in HR has a masters. I know several CPAs who have undergrad degrees plus certification, or have masters plus certification. I guess somehow I didn't realize that accounting degrees came from business programs (my college did not have a business program for undergrads, nor did I know anyone from my college who became an accountant). |
Anonymous
+1 I went to Notre Dame for undergraduate (accounting) and MBA (marketing). MBA was SO much easier... I had a 2.8 GPA undergrad - 3.9 grad. It was hard to believe I was in the same school/same building. |
Anonymous
Thank you for clearly demonstrating how unintelligent business majors are. I knew physics majors who banged through their very complicated studies and got to bed on time. I'm sorry you went to an Ivy for one of the easiest degrees, and think that the amount of time it took you to do basic work is indicative of the rigor of the degree instead of the incompetence of those involved. |
Anonymous
| I used to date a guy who was doing his MBA at MIT. I was absolutely SHOCKED at how easy his "work" was for his courses: it was a lot of simple group projects that were mostly time consuming because they required getting together with everyone, but really, really easy stuff. He also scoffed at how easy the MBA was (he had an undergrad degree in Electrical Engineering). The MBA program was clearly a cash cow for the university, not a rigorous academic course. (Before anyone bashes MIT, he had lots of friends at Harvard, and they said the same things). |
Anonymous
Sounds like someone was jealous he or she did not go to Wharton. Maybe you are a disgruntled MBA? |
Anonymous
But you got your undergrad degree in a hard subject and your MBA in an easy one. |
Anonymous
+100 |
Anonymous
You could have stopped at accounting. Marketing, human resources would be equally well-served by liberal arts or psychology degrees. |
Anonymous
| Marketing is actually a pretty tough major, in spite of the stereotype. The English majors sneering at such a "non-intellectual" major would probably flunk calculus. And most upper level marketing courses have a lot of fairly difficult math in them. |
Anonymous
Agree with this, they're both pretty easy. But I was a physics and engineering major, so... |
Anonymous
| If you did undergrad finance and had to work on developing cash flow models or valuing options that's pretty intense. More intense than most liberal art majors anyway. I would like to see the posters sneering at how easy a undergrad business major is do that. In one of my undergrad business classes we also had to learn how to program. |