3 Types of BBA Majors

College Majors Business Major
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<p>The way I see it, there are three types of majors offered in an undergraduate business school:
Professional, Technical, and General.</p>

<p>Professional (Finance, Accounting, Marketing): These majors teach you skills that you can use from day 1 until you become a CEO. They have a quantitative aspect and top programs can land you jobs with prestigious companies. Your ambition and ability to network can really shape your career path here.</p>

<p>Technical (MIS, Supply Chain, Operations): These majors prepare you to be highly employable and you will often have a good chance at an above-average starting salary. I think of these as what you should major in if you don't go to a particularly good school or are worried that you aren't ambitious and outgoing enough to take charge of your career future like you need to be successful in the first category of majors.</p>

<p>General (Management, International Business, Entrepreneurship): This is the most worthless type of major in the business school. They are vague, hard to define, do not give you any skills that make you competitive against another business major with common sense. The biggest problem is probably that they try to teach you something that you're really supposed to learn through experience.</p>

<p>Keep in mind, this is just my opinion from what I've learned about different business majors on here, from recruiters I have talked to, from school resources, and other accumulated knowledge.</p>

<p>There are a lot of majors that business schools will offer (some seem to exist for the sake of attracting a few more applicants) that I have not included, but you should be able to place them according to the examples and descriptions above.</p>

<p>You could also argue that some of these fit multiple categories and that is certainly true of each major to a different extent.</p>

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<p>I agree with the classifications. Not necessarily with the assessments. </p>

<p>I doubled in IBA/Finance and I discovered that my colleges who just did finance were less prepare than I was to work overseas and in international trade. International business is very different from the normal business practice. My IBA studies were 50% finance and economics courses (due to my interests) and 50% the rest. </p>

<p>You haven’t lived until you run the finance department from a foreign business M&A and you suddenly have 100 employees who barely speak English. That means I incorporated the HR function back into finance. Due to the lack of resources it was necessary to revert to old school business organization. I also had to (cautiously) adjust some accounting practices to satisfy creditors and banks in country. I used IGAAP with a twist. The hardest part was studying local policy and laws for standards of practice (like their GAAP equivalent). Local labor law, laws regarding cash disbursement overseas, and local audit and due diligence practices.</p>