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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

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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 [i]any [/i]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. [/quote]
I disagree on the last parts. Soft skills are highly overrated on this board and it leads parents to encouraging degrees with less utility. I'm also not convinced a 4 year degree is what sets these soft skill abilities.

Specialized business degrees give you advantageous hard skills that econ graduates will not have. It's "practical," because you will actually use your education, not just learn a bunch of models that you won't touch unless you go to grad school like in Econ. [/quote]

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