Is a business major for dumb kids?

[Anonymous]

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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.

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.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stay away from marketing and they’ll be fine. Suggest a more quantitative track like finance but take full advantage of the networking and internship stuff and they’ll land great.

There's nothing wrong with marketing.

You really need a lesson in business matters.

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

[Anonymous]

YES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stay away from marketing and they’ll be fine. Suggest a more quantitative track like finance but take full advantage of the networking and internship stuff and they’ll land great.

Marketing is very hot. These days they've added data analytics to the programs, and with ai probably will get even hotter.

The person I know in marketing is doing very, very well for herself. She's close to retirement at this point.

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

[Anonymous]

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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.

Indeed, a marketing major is far more intellectually demanding than a philosophy major<s>

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most business majors couldn’t think their way out of a Chinese finger trap.

Or they simply saw no benefit to sticking their fingers in there in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think that's a myth. I've found that business majors can be very smart, but not necessarily intellectual. It takes a different way of thinking to be a business major and I don't thinks it's accurate to say that they're not bright.

Well stated.

[Anonymous]

No
Not dumb but maybe not academic. They also aren’t in it to make the world a better place.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

Not, Econ is major for kids that can’t do well in the math classes in business school. From Econ, then to Communications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most business majors couldn’t think their way out of a Chinese finger trap.

Or they simply saw no benefit to sticking their fingers in there in the first place.

lol.. they did the cost/benefit analysis and found the ROI lacking.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

[Anonymous]

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.

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)

[Anonymous]

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

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.)

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?