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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An undergrad business degree is the GED of college degrees. The types of courses range so widely from school to school it's not impressive or prestigious at all. [/quote]

Business can be like any 30/120 credit major (only 25% of total credits).  As a Phi Beta Kappa MBA who loves the liberal arts, I think it's dumb to slam business degrees.  At the better schools, the classes exercise many of the same skills as English classes (particularly business communications, marketing, and presentation coursework) and Math classes (Accounting, Finance).  Organizational Behavior has a lot in common with Psychology and Sociology.  There are also classes like Business Ethics, Business Law, etc. that are rather like Philosophy, Political Science, etc.  With good professors at good schools, these are equivalently thought-provoking.  That is why the Liberal Arts are suffering from intra-University competition.  I think the best way for the Liberal Arts to gain back support is better college career office support AND lower tuition prices so students and parents can afford the income risk/lower starting salaries for many.

Let's keep in mind that a single person lecturing to a physically present crowd in a lecture hall is a medieval invention.  How can society really justify $90K/year for this type of education? The Humanities have a risk-adjusted affordability issue.

There was a time decades ago when even Harvard MBAs were mainly for the lazy kids and heirs.  It's totally different now.  Anti-BBA thinking seems really old-school to me.[/quote]

At the better schools...at good schools...yah 
What about middling schools? 
Business and communications are fave majors for athletes. [/quote]

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