Alternatives to business major

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https://academiccatalog.umd.edu/undergraduate/colleges-schools/information/information-science-major/

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Anonymous wrote:If she can get past the no-grad school requirement, my first thought was a library science degree based on her interests and personality.

Librarian here. I would not recommend the field. Most librarian positions in public libraries do not pay well enough to justify the money spent on the coursework.

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Anonymous wrote:Am a bit confused. Most business programs are not math heavy. Is the issue that she isn’t getting good enough grades in the econ and accounting classes? Usually you just have to get through them and then you can focus on what you want (marketing, entrepreneurship, etc).

This just isn't true! Business IS math. Including Marketing. There are no business majors that aren't math heavy. And there are no business careers that aren't math heavy now. Marketing does not equal communications and it does not equal social media. I work for a Fortune 5 company in operations. Our marketing team does analytics all day, every day.

This board is very strange.

OP - I would rec communications as well. She sounds like she could be good at grant or proposal writing. Lots of research, facts and good for an introvert.

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our son, who is in the 2nd year in business school (flagship school OOS), had to take college level calc as a prerequisite. All classes (so not limited to finance) are heavy quantitative courses.

advertising =/= marketing

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am a bit confused. Most business programs are not math heavy. Is the issue that she isn’t getting good enough grades in the econ and accounting classes? Usually you just have to get through them and then you can focus on what you want (marketing, entrepreneurship, etc).

This just isn't true! Business IS math. Including Marketing. There are no business majors that aren't math heavy. And there are no business careers that aren't math heavy now. Marketing does not equal communications and it does not equal social media. I work for a Fortune 5 company in operations. Our marketing team does analytics all day, every day.

This board is very strange.

OP - I would rec communications as well. She sounds like she could be good at grant or proposal writing. Lots of research, facts and good for an introvert.

+1

our son, who is in the 2nd year in business school (flagship school OOS), had to take college level calc as a prerequisite. All classes (so not limited to finance) are heavy quantitative courses.

advertising =/= marketing

Still not true that business programs are math heavy, as they usually require 1 math class and 1 stats class and that’s it (just look up any of them).

Marketing classes are not quantitative, just look at their course descriptions. Berkeley Haas (which is one of the programs to require two(!) math classes) lists its upper level courses as quantitative and qualitative and marketing is “qualitative.” Michigan Ross uses cases studies for their marketing major. Notre Dame Mendoza has statistical analysis in all of one part of one required class for their marketing major. I could go on.