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I generally agree but not everyone is into STEM
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Finance and accounting are great for non-STEM people [/quote]
I would add business analytics and MIS[/quote]

Business professor again:  I worked as a quant.  Wow, lots of hate for telling the truth about helicopter parents who lack faith in their kids.

Accounting has merit, but DCUM insists on front office investment banking, not sales, trading, research, asset management, nor risk management.  Certainly nothing pedestrian like accounting.

Analytics and MIS are STEM by definition.  The problem is that undergrad business curricula are broad and flexible enough to allow lightweight STEM.  You should seek the more rigorous STEM courses, inside and outside the business school.  If you want authentic Chinese food, then you should go to restaurants where the Chinese are.  Whoops, that is not a terrible heuristic for STEM.  But you want to go where the nerds are, in math, science, computer science, and engineering.

What if your kid is a greedy stupid nincompoop, uninterested and incapable of learning anything challenging?  Then I guess he must work long hours as a spreadsheet monkey.  I don't see any other reason to pay him.

To be fair, I'm not sure how I would judge the quality of undergrad business programs.  But I don't want to shoehorn my kids into a profession.  I'll just steer them toward a place with the most general opportunities, and encourage them to experiment and challenge themselves.[/quote]

WTF are you talking about?
Not everyone wants to major in CS or applied math although I have high respect for those majors.

Finance, accounting, MIS, business analytics are great majors.
These besiness majors are usually more competitive when offered - UPenn, Georgetown, Berkeley, Cornell, UMich, Notre Dame, UVA, etc.
Just different options.

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