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[quote=Anonymous][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]

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

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

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