<p>I have always known that I will be majoring a degree in Business my entire life, and now working as a certified pharmacy tech for the past year I have grown to think about doing pharmacy school after finishing my bachelor's in accounting at Rutger's University. I am curious to know if anyone here know of many successful leaders in corporate America that possess these two degrees, and if it's ultimately a really good decision to make.</p>
<p>Completely pointless.</p>
<p>I agree with Dawgie. </p>
<p>Choose one or the other, that's ultimately what you'll be doing in the long-run. Merely taking the time to even attempt to do this is a waste of time. Weigh the pros and cons, and just pick one.</p>
<p>I don't know, a pharmacutical degree coupled with an accounting degree could open doors for you with major pharmacutical companies. Knowing accounting is one thing but knowing both accounting and pharmacuticals is what it will take to move ahead in the industry. I would assume that as a CFO, you must be able to interpret the usage of materials to determine the correct costs when producing products. Yeah sure, there's always going to be someone that will say, "It is this type of cost, and that is also this type of cost." But where does it all start from? Possibly, the CFO or one of his VPs that determines which costs are direct product costs and which ones are overhead. I'm just speculating but it seems to me that if a career in pharmacuticals is what you want, then it wouldn't hurt to have both degrees. Afterall, the professional level education is what is going to get you a job, not the undergraduate degree.</p>
<p>Pharm.D + MBA is better</p>
<p>Yea except college education means practically nothing. I work for Big Four, and 75% of the **** I don't even use.</p>
<p>Crunch numbers or push pills.. Not much difference to me.</p>
<p>Accounting by itself is very limited and would offer no value to a company with a pharm degree.</p>
<p>But a pharmD + top MBA would.</p>
<p>Yeah Pharm degree + MBA. But there's no point in throwing away the undergrad degree that you're working on. Just look on the brighter side, accounting is always your fallback.</p>
<p>Sorry, but I honestly doubt you'll finish your bachelor's degree requirements along with your pharmacy requirements.</p>
<p>I'm from NJ and I have a lot of friends in the pharmacy program at Rutgers. It's VERY rigorous and most people get kicked out. Also, your first 'professional' year starts on your 3rd year of college.</p>
<p>Rutgers has a pharmaceutical MBA program that you could check out too...</p>
<p>If you want to work in healthcare/pharma/biotech then Duke, Wharton, Kellogg, MIT Sloan and HBS are the best schools IMHO to go to.</p>
<p>Crunch numbers? (I'm Big Four Accountant) I don't do any of that. pugfug educate yourself before posting please.</p>
<p>How about Debit/Credit? Is that closer? :)</p>
<p>"Crunch numbers? (I'm Big Four Accountant) I don't do any of that. pugfug educate yourself before posting please."
Do you have anything to contribute or are you just going to insult me?</p>
<p>^^^ Take your own advice, are you going to contribute or just spout nonsense?</p>
<p>Someone asked for an opinion, I opined.</p>
<p>Is the best that you can do to contradict me is to say that you simply don't crunch numbers? Way to go.</p>
<p>Yea I think it's pretty informative, since this is the business major forum after all. Can't have people start believing accounting is about crunching numbers because you felt like sharing your opinion.</p>
<p>Is that the best you got? That accountants "don't crunch numbers"? Sorry for putting it so bluntly, I'd like for you to describe the profession any better.</p>
<p>Best I've got? This isn't a competition who can find the best comebacks my child. It's about being informative. and you child are not. Now stop misinforming high school/college kids.</p>