Career prospects: business degree vs. economics degree

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM hates business degrees.

I got a business degree and it served me well. I've used what I learned in my finance classes and accounting classes for decades. These classes helped me in my real world jobs and also in my personal investing.

I was in econ classes with the econ majors. Honestly I thought the econ classes were kind of theoretical b.s.

PP with Econ major daughter - she agrees 100%. I cannot fathom how anyone could argue that financial management classes, accounting, marketing, strategy, sales etc. are not valuable in any business or line of work. I would also argue that interpersonal skills are becoming rarer and rarer as the years pass. Business students get a lot of practice in developing relationships, also key in life and work.

We have CS / engineering majors coming out of our eyeballs who simply cannot have an effective in-person conversation, advocate for themselves, or make a simple phone call. Soft skills are highly undervalued on this board.

engineering majors at my kid’s uni do a large number of projects with presentations - it reminds me of my mba days

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCUM hates business degrees.

I got a business degree and it served me well. I've used what I learned in my finance classes and accounting classes for decades. These classes helped me in my real world jobs and also in my personal investing.

I was in econ classes with the econ majors. Honestly I thought the econ classes were kind of theoretical b.s.

PP with Econ major daughter - she agrees 100%. I cannot fathom how anyone could argue that financial management classes, accounting, marketing, strategy, sales etc. are not valuable in any business or line of work. I would also argue that interpersonal skills are becoming rarer and rarer as the years pass. Business students get a lot of practice in developing relationships, also key in life and work.

We have CS / engineering majors coming out of our eyeballs who simply cannot have an effective in-person conversation, advocate for themselves, or make a simple phone call. Soft skills are highly undervalued on this board.

engineering majors at my kid’s uni do a large number of projects with presentations - it reminds me of my mba days

I’m always surprised when people on this forum talk about all these engineers and coders who can’t speak to human beings. Maybe I’ve just had a luck streak, but most CS/engineering curriculums have more collaboration and humanities components than the business majors. I think they just have different roles and people are for some reasons expecting CS/Eng majors to have the same skill set as HR, sales, and marketing??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCUM hates business degrees.

I got a business degree and it served me well. I've used what I learned in my finance classes and accounting classes for decades. These classes helped me in my real world jobs and also in my personal investing.

I was in econ classes with the econ majors. Honestly I thought the econ classes were kind of theoretical b.s.

PP with Econ major daughter - she agrees 100%. I cannot fathom how anyone could argue that financial management classes, accounting, marketing, strategy, sales etc. are not valuable in any business or line of work. I would also argue that interpersonal skills are becoming rarer and rarer as the years pass. Business students get a lot of practice in developing relationships, also key in life and work.

We have CS / engineering majors coming out of our eyeballs who simply cannot have an effective in-person conversation, advocate for themselves, or make a simple phone call. Soft skills are highly undervalued on this board.

engineering majors at my kid’s uni do a large number of projects with presentations - it reminds me of my mba days

Design students also do market research exercises, group projects, and presentations very similar to MBAs and corporate meetings.