Majoring in Business

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Anonymous wrote:How come we never hear about Thunderbird college any more?

Acquired by ASU in 2014.

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I hire a lot of entry level new grads. The business, comms etc. majors tend to be fairly weak in a real life setting. That said our recruiters value majors when culling through thousands of applications - because it is easier than figuring out how a history major could apply their skills.

After 2 years post-grad it doesn’t really matter what major you had.

I personally place a high value on a liberal arts education. It makes you a curious, critical thinker and improves writing.

But many these days think if it’s not STEM or pre professional it’s not worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:I hire a lot of entry level new grads. The business, comms etc. majors tend to be fairly weak in a real life setting. That said our recruiters value majors when culling through thousands of applications - because it is easier than figuring out how a history major could apply their skills.

After 2 years post-grad it doesn’t really matter what major you had.

I personally place a high value on a liberal arts education. It makes you a curious, critical thinker and improves writing.

But many these days think if it’s not STEM or pre professional it’s not worth it.

Biology, Mathematics, Physics—-all examples of liberal arts majors.

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Anonymous wrote:I hire a lot of entry level new grads. The business, comms etc. majors tend to be fairly weak in a real life setting. That said our recruiters value majors when culling through thousands of applications - because it is easier than figuring out how a history major could apply their skills.

After 2 years post-grad it doesn’t really matter what major you had.

I personally place a high value on a liberal arts education. It makes you a curious, critical thinker and improves writing.

But many these days think if it’s not STEM or pre professional it’s not worth it.

+1

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My husband's company has recruits sit down and give writing samples in response to prompts. If they can't write, they won't be considered no matter where they went to college. He says the best writers are from Catholic colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish more people at my office majored in business rather than history or interpretive dance or whatever so that they could write well. I literally say to myself all-the-time how I wish everyone majored in business.

I loathe receiving multi-paragraph emails that I need a map and highlighter to piece together, like a riddle, the point in 1 sentence or less. My God! I don't care about all the backstory and pointless facts. Longer is not better in business.

In fact, it's so bad at my office, I'm going to start sifting through old emails of certain people, pluck out the 5 words of importance, and keep a running sheet so that I have a reference document nobody else will create, and then I will share it with my team!! It will also be. . . Chronological!!!

History is VERY good for learning how to be a better writer, and leagues better than business in that regard.

That’s nice. Companies do not care.

History major niece just started at one of the top 4 consulting firm with $125k and a signing bonus. She did take hard courses from CS, math, economics but no additional major, minor, certification or track.

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History was a personal choice, she was accepted in honors business program and comp sci major as well. She thinks her math skills were the key but lessons from history set her apart.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish more people at my office majored in business rather than history or interpretive dance or whatever so that they could write well. I literally say to myself all-the-time how I wish everyone majored in business.

I loathe receiving multi-paragraph emails that I need a map and highlighter to piece together, like a riddle, the point in 1 sentence or less. My God! I don't care about all the backstory and pointless facts. Longer is not better in business.

In fact, it's so bad at my office, I'm going to start sifting through old emails of certain people, pluck out the 5 words of importance, and keep a running sheet so that I have a reference document nobody else will create, and then I will share it with my team!! It will also be. . . Chronological!!!

History is VERY good for learning how to be a better writer, and leagues better than business in that regard.

That’s nice. Companies do not care.

History major niece just started at one of the top 4 consulting firm with $125k and a signing bonus. She did take hard courses from CS, math, economics but no additional major, minor, certification or track.

History is one of the OK humanties major.
Top consulting firms mostly hire from Business Econ STEM, but they also need some divertiy in perspectives and backgrounds, so histoy major gets picked here and there.

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Anonymous wrote:I hire a lot of entry level new grads. The business, comms etc. majors tend to be fairly weak in a real life setting. That said our recruiters value majors when culling through thousands of applications - because it is easier than figuring out how a history major could apply their skills.

After 2 years post-grad it doesn’t really matter what major you had.

I personally place a high value on a liberal arts education. It makes you a curious, critical thinker and improves writing.

But many these days think if it’s not STEM or pre professional it’s not worth it.

Biology, Mathematics, Physics—-all examples of liberal arts majors.

This^. World doesn’t revolve around STEM.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hire a lot of entry level new grads. The business, comms etc. majors tend to be fairly weak in a real life setting. That said our recruiters value majors when culling through thousands of applications - because it is easier than figuring out how a history major could apply their skills.

After 2 years post-grad it doesn’t really matter what major you had.

I personally place a high value on a liberal arts education. It makes you a curious, critical thinker and improves writing.

But many these days think if it’s not STEM or pre professional it’s not worth it.

Biology, Mathematics, Physics—-all examples of liberal arts majors.

This^. World doesn’t revolve around STEM.

Biology, Mathematics, Physics are also STEM

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Businesses go up and down but mathematics is eternal.

Ask a scientist, “explain to me in clear terms without resorting to authority that part of your discipline which is not mathematics”.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish more people at my office majored in business rather than history or interpretive dance or whatever so that they could write well. I literally say to myself all-the-time how I wish everyone majored in business.

I loathe receiving multi-paragraph emails that I need a map and highlighter to piece together, like a riddle, the point in 1 sentence or less. My God! I don't care about all the backstory and pointless facts. Longer is not better in business.

In fact, it's so bad at my office, I'm going to start sifting through old emails of certain people, pluck out the 5 words of importance, and keep a running sheet so that I have a reference document nobody else will create, and then I will share it with my team!! It will also be. . . Chronological!!!

History is VERY good for learning how to be a better writer, and leagues better than business in that regard.

That’s nice. Companies do not care.

History major niece just started at one of the top 4 consulting firm with $125k and a signing bonus. She did take hard courses from CS, math, economics but no additional major, minor, certification or track.

What tier school?

I can guarantee you the state school business major will make more than the state school history major.

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Anonymous wrote:I hire a lot of entry level new grads. The business, comms etc. majors tend to be fairly weak in a real life setting. That said our recruiters value majors when culling through thousands of applications - because it is easier than figuring out how a history major could apply their skills.

After 2 years post-grad it doesn’t really matter what major you had.

I personally place a high value on a liberal arts education. It makes you a curious, critical thinker and improves writing.

But many these days think if it’s not STEM or pre professional it’s not worth it.

Biology, Mathematics, Physics—-all examples of liberal arts majors.

This^. World doesn’t revolve around STEM.

Do you even know what the four letters STEP individually stand for. I bet you majored in some thing the farthest from STEM. What a pity commenting without knowing!

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Anonymous wrote:I hire a lot of entry level new grads. The business, comms etc. majors tend to be fairly weak in a real life setting. That said our recruiters value majors when culling through thousands of applications - because it is easier than figuring out how a history major could apply their skills.

After 2 years post-grad it doesn’t really matter what major you had.

I personally place a high value on a liberal arts education. It makes you a curious, critical thinker and improves writing.

But many these days think if it’s not STEM or pre professional it’s not worth it.

Biology, Mathematics, Physics—-all examples of liberal arts majors.

This^. World doesn’t revolve around STEM.

Do you even know what the four letters STEP individually stand for. I bet you majored in some thing the farthest from STEM. What a pity commenting without knowing!

Silence.

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Anonymous wrote:I hire a lot of entry level new grads. The business, comms etc. majors tend to be fairly weak in a real life setting. That said our recruiters value majors when culling through thousands of applications - because it is easier than figuring out how a history major could apply their skills.

After 2 years post-grad it doesn’t really matter what major you had.

I personally place a high value on a liberal arts education. It makes you a curious, critical thinker and improves writing.

But many these days think if it’s not STEM or pre professional it’s not worth it.

Biology, Mathematics, Physics—-all examples of liberal arts majors.

This^. World doesn’t revolve around STEM.

Biology, Mathematics, Physics are also STEM

They are STEM majors offered at most colleges, including liberal arts colleges.

I attended biz school - see? 😀