Is a business major for dumb kids?

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See this for IQ by major https://thetab.com/us/2017/04/10/which-major-has-highest-iq-64811

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do we have all these aggressively judgemental threads lately?

OP, what is lacking in your life? Seriously.

It’s cancel culture + anonymous postings, setting a hostile tone for people with the inability to navigate gray areas, where some business majors & degrees are great while simultaneously some aren’t.

True. And we now have lots of Reddit kids here. I highly doubt OP is an adult.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The dumb kids I knew gravitated towards social work. Several top students went for education....A students often become teachers.

I thought Communications was for the "dumb" kids.

Social work, communications, English, same shit.

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Glory days of the business major boom (halfway mark):

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

There's a difference between going to a undergraduate business school and majoring in business. Generally a business school will have a wide range of majors - some of them very quantitative (data science, econ, finance, operations management, it) and those students will be strong in analytical and math skills. They are not dumb. They will also have other majors that can lean in a different direction like marketing, communications, organizational behavior - I know nothing about these and won't comment (although I'd note that some marketing tracks also have a deep dive into data science if going on the marketing research side). Then there is sometimes the akin to "undecided" where the indication is just general business. I have no idea whether there are schools that have a business degree without having a business school.

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Anonymous wrote:Not dumb but business majors are not as good at math as Econ majors, except for top business programs. Surprised that they get better chances of being hired into quantitative jobs in finance than Econ majors.

There are Econ majors IN business school.... It's the same subject, it's just that the business school kids need to take a TON more business related courses ON TOP of the Econ major courses. Sometimes it means less Econ electives required - but do not assume this means it is easier. There are plenty of econ courses that are easier than finance or operations management.

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Do they have a language requirement yet?

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Anonymous wrote:Do they have a language requirement yet?

My business school (at a liberal arts college) had a language requirement. We had the same Liberal Arts core requirements as the school of arts and sciences and on top of that had our business core and then you had major requirements above the liberal arts and business core. Being in the business school just meant you had less time to take random courses - we had little room for electives. This was fine for me - I liked my econ major and that my courses were in econ. And, I had exposure to other subjects via the core.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not dumb but business majors are not as good at math as Econ majors, except for top business programs. Surprised that they get better chances of being hired into quantitative jobs in finance than Econ majors.

There are Econ majors IN business school.... It's the same subject, it's just that the business school kids need to take a TON more business related courses ON TOP of the Econ major courses. Sometimes it means less Econ electives required - but do not assume this means it is easier. There are plenty of econ courses that are easier than finance or operations management.

It depends on the schools.

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Business programs are competitive and harder to get in next to CS/Engineering.

They tend to be smarter than average.

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Thinking back on the kids I went to school with, the smartest kids did not become business majors. But the smartest kids did not become billionaires or CEOs. Would your kid rather be a professor or a billionaire?

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My kid will be majoring in business. He wants to go into investment banking like his dad. He’s smart but he works hard to get good grades in math and science put pulls all As. He’s an excellent writer and has above average communication skills. He did get into a competitive business program for next year and will minor in math.

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

Its not popular among intellectually curious minds.

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Anonymous wrote:The dumb kids I knew gravitated towards social work. Several top students went for education....A students often become teachers.

I don't know a single top student who chose education.

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It's the total opposite.
Business program is in high demand, competitive and harder to get in.
Students in business programs are motivated and smarter than average population in colleges.
I think OP is confused with humanities kids.