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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are only a handful of universities with well regarded undergraduate business schools - Penn, MIT, Berkeley, Michigan, Cornell, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Indiana, NYU, USC, UVA, and WashU. Studying at those business programs will be perfectly acceptable for your average DCUM reader. At other T30 colleges without undergraduate business schools, people tend to major in economics if interested in corporate/finance/banking/consulting careers. Also acceptable.

Majoring in Business Administration or similar at State U or at a school not mentioned above still has a stigma however. Traditionally, it's not where you find the best and brightest. Such students are generally regarded as shallow, boring, uninteresting, and incurious. Fair or not, those students are not taken seriously. And a business admin degree from a non-elite school is regarded about the same as a certificate from the community college. You hire them to complete basic tasks, not to lead or manage. Someone that studied business at Wharton or Stern is going to have very different career outcomes than someone who studied business at Towson St.

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You all just say anything. Whether necessary or not, a “business degree” is often listed as a requirement for many corporate entry level jobs. I know because I see it at my own Fortune 100 employer. Could a history major learn the same skills necessary to be successful in the role - absolutely. But having taken basic accounting, finance, Econ courses goes a step further in getting your foot in the door. And once you’ve proven yourself, no one cares where you attended undergrad. [/quote]

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