Top student here. I was accomplished enough to go anywhere and study anything, but I picked education. Teaching has always been my dream. (It’s a far tougher job now than it was when I started, but that’s for another thread.) |
lol I am a managing director at a PE firm Of course there’s nothing *wrong* with a marketing degree, but finance and other quant majors will do vastly better for the typical business student |
YES. |
Marketing is good, avoid advertising, which is usually not in the business major, but in Communications school. At a good school, marketing majors take the same strong "business core curriculum" as a finance/accounting/real estate/entreprenuership majors---2 Econs, 2 accountings, and intro to finance, marketing, IT, etc. and then takes 5-10 classes that focus on Marketing, but really it's only 5 Marketing required and they can choose the other 5 within other areas of business. So you can tweak the major and make it much stronger with the right business electives for your 3-5 extra business courses |
Indeed, a marketing major is far more intellectually demanding than a philosophy major<s> |
Or they simply saw no benefit to sticking their fingers in there in the first place. |
Well stated. |
No
Not dumb but maybe not academic. They also aren’t in it to make the world a better place. |
Business program is generally more competitive and harder to get in.
Thus common sense should tell you they are smarter than average college students. Is this thread for dumb people lol |
Not, Econ is major for kids that can’t do well in the math classes in business school. From Econ, then to Communications. |
lol.. they did the cost/benefit analysis and found the ROI lacking. |
For Colleges with strong undergrad business schools - the B school is usually the second hardest admit after CS Engineering. Lol they’re most def not the dumb kids. |
+ 1 |
Because business majors go through a more rigorous selection process than econ majors or are able to hit the ground running (the former for high prestige places, the latter for non-prestigous places). Also from my experience they both tend to top out at calc 1. (The pre-grad school econ majors aren't relevant since they're not applying to finance jobs) |
Why not get a PhD/Master's in the field you intend to teach and teach at a university, community college, or ritzy private for the six figure salary? |