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Now in general you get BSBA for business program, but you speicalize in certain areas such as finance, accounting, marketing, management, etc.
I would stay away from areas like marketing or management too are too broad. 
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They won't let you to "stay away" from marketing or management.  In the first two years, business students take university requirements and financial accounting. Then students must take required introductory courses in marketing, organizational behavior/management and perhaps "strategy", managerial accounting, manufacturing/supply chain, business economics, business law, statistics/econometrics, information systems, maybe entrepreneurship and maybe global mumbo jumbo.  Academic departments compete for growth by requiring all these courses.  Students can only specialize in the last year.

I'm laissez faire.  Find the best college with the best opportunities to explore.  If my daughters want to major in English at Princeton, or in-state, that is fine.  If they want me to pay for hippie Bennington College, then we might have a problem (unless they have special needs).  Connecticut College and George Washington also seem overpriced.  If they like the Pepperdine because of the Malibu beach, then I will tell them to study hard and get into UCSD.  But some kids gravitate to government and politics at American University.  IMHO, a kid needs to be unusually focused at an early age to justify choosing a distinctly worse university for a specialized program.

Seriously, you take around 25% of courses in your major for a 4-year bachelors degree.  Why compromise on the other 75%, when you can go to a better-fitting undergrad school, and then get a 1-year specialty masters?  It seems obvious that a Brown/Northwestern/Columbia/Dartmouth economics bachelors degree plus a top masters degree will provide superior career connections and opportunities to a UVA/McIntire degree.[/quote]

For the last time, you don't need a masters or MBA wheatehr you go to Dartmouth Econ or UVA McIntire. Period.
You think about that later.

You get liberal arts education, and business related foundational classes, and then a specialized area. 
Seems perfectly fine.

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