<p>Rising sophomore in COE, and I have some questions about the AEM business minor for engineers.</p>
<p>Is the AEM minor for engineers worth it? How many students in engineering pursue it? Is it difficult to be accepted to the minor?</p>
<p>(FYI, from what I've read, there are six courses you need to complete for the minor, I already have credit from ap stats for the introductory statistics course. However, I have very little business experience, did not take business courses in high school.)</p>
<p>also keep in mind there are not many high schools that offer business courses of any sort, so you won’t be drastically behind coming with no experience.</p>
<p>the minor only requires the bare minimum for business knowledge. you’re taking intro to micro (joke), intro to business mgmt (even bigger joke), marketing (joke also) - all of these classes are so intuitive that the classes are just testing you on the textbook, which i personally have a huge issue with. in my opinion, the only two worthwhile classes that you need to take for the minor are financial accounting and finance. </p>
<p>I was considering doing this too, but my main issue with the minor itself is what cc102 just said. The classes are all jokes. I’d rather spend my time at Cornell enriching my knowledge than wasting time on a crap minor (assuming I’d even be selected for it with such a mindset).</p>
<p>I’m sorta confused now, because I thought the AEM program at Cornell was highly ranked/selective, and therefore worthy of pursuing. Why would the courses required for the minor be considered jokes then? And even if they are, doesn’t an engineering major with business minor look better than no minor and just some random business classes?</p>
<p>AEM is difficult to be accepted into but majors tend to have relatively high averages, and the courses aren’t the most difficult offered at the university. they will certainly be easier than engineering. some intro courses in that area might be particularly easy. (also remember the people at college confidential are only a very very small self-selected group of students.)
I think doing the minor would be a fine idea. you can always try a course of it and then decide not to pursue it further if you feel not worth your time. I’m a CALS science student with an AEM minor and I’m appreciating it so far.</p>
<p>For the minor, they have a limited number of spots per year, but I these spots never fill up. So basically if you want to complete the minor (and are not an ORIE major), you will probably be able to do it.</p>
<p>bc the classes required for the minor are the bare minimum. you’re not going in depth into any subject. what’s the point of even doing it except for the name when you can just take more developed/upper level classes and not have the minor? minors don’t even show up on your transcript.</p>
<p>cc102…
people get jobs with associates degrees in business…which is sorta the equivalent of a minor…</p>
<p>a minor is about half the requirements of a major…i think the business minor is great for those who have no working knowledge of the business world…</p>
<p>a minor in AEM =/= half the requirements of a major in AEM. you are required to specialize in AEM, which, in order to obtain, you generally have to take at least as many classes as the major requirements. and the minor in AEM is only really half of the required broad major requirements -and it’s not even the useful/interesting/fun classes (which would be like environmental econ, resource econ, int’l trade policy, etc).</p>
<p>i understand that people get jobs with assoc degrees in business. i’m trying to stress that many people get jobs in business WITHOUT degrees in business. a minor is not going to make you any more desired to a firm if you’re not taking in depth classes. i’m working at an ibank this summer and most of the interns aren’t even business/econ majors. they’re engineering or psych or history or other majors. they just are interested and showed passion in the field.</p>
<p>don’t get the minor for the sake of getting a minor. or if you do, at least take MORE classes than what the minor requires. go more in depth so that when people talk to you about business related subjects (bc they will if you tell them you minored in AEM), you can at least know what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>just to note that AEM minors for <em>CALS</em> students can include the useful/fun/interesting courses, if you’re doing either the Environmental and Resource Economics minor or the International Trade and Development minor.</p>
<p>I completely disagree. I ‘minored’ in both economics and inequality studies when I was a student and both programs were excellent. I learned a lot that I use every day in the real world. </p>
<p>It helped that I was interested in both subjects. I wasn’t interested in AEM at the time. Now I work for a bank alongside some finance majors. Go figure.</p>
<p>Who said anything about AEM Majors? The question at hand is if the minor is worth pursuing. </p>
<p>I’m heavily biased against it myself for personal reasons so don’t give me complete credence either. But I don’t think that I’m lying when I say there are better academic pursuits than the AEM minor for an engineer. </p>
<p>In related news, everyone heard about the new AEM school. Dyson School of Applied and Economic Management. Hmmm.</p>
<p>i wasn’t bashing other minors. i was only bashing the AEM minor. in my opinion, (and you know what they say about opinions…) it is insufficient and many people would only take the classes required by the minor to say that they have it the minor. i’m just saying that it’s more effective and useful overall to take classes that you’re interested in, at least in AEM. </p>
<p>i am in no way commenting on other minors. sorry if it came off that way. i actually approve of many minors that are offered through the Einaudi center, which provide guidance and credence for many topics that aren’t offered as majors - ie: Peace Studies, European Studies, IR minor, etc.</p>
<p>i would say all minors are just exposure to various fields in the subject area…</p>
<p>in all honesty AEM seems to be the most structured since it has courses you MUST have…where many other minors/concentrations are just classes of a given topic you can choose from…</p>