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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach at a top-30 university that recently introduced a business major. Basically the entire faculty outside that major is embarrassed by the whole thing. The business major kids, for the most part, have no intellectual drive, depth, or curiosity, and the whole program operates on a whole raft of assumptions that aren't called into question for a second, because questioning at a deeper level simply isn't demanded or desired. That's why--if we looked at charts of income, achievement, happiness, etc. 10 years down the road--those majors would be near the bottom. They're missing out on the fundamental skill set, and critical/inquisitive frame of mind, that is ideally at the root of undergraduate education. Dunk on this position all you want, but I've seen enough students and grads to stand by it 100%.[/quote]

Your post is trapped by the inconsistency. Your school just introduced a business major and yet you already have data on the 10 year outcome? And can tie it to such subjective factors as happiness?  :roll: Something tells me you made this up as it's not backed by anything reputable I can find in a quick 30 second google.

There is nothing complicated about business degrees. Plenty of students want a preprofessional degree to help get the first rung corporate analyst job that will allow them to enter the ranks of the UMC. The growing perception that so much of the old humanities and liberal arts fields are now little more than mumbo jumbo woke revisionist identity politics confirms to these kids that college is little more than getting a respectable degree, four years of learning how to become an adult, and getting that first real job with a serious employer. A business degree ticks the boxes neatly.

I'm 20 years out of college and went to a fancy Ivy. Will say many of my old HS classmates who went to flagships or lesser private colleges and majored in some kind of business degree have done much better than quite a few of the humanities majors at LACs or Ivies. Including yours truly. I've done well but I've also learned that the snobbery of academia and degrees is highly misplaced and a disservice. [/quote]

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