<p>"1- The entire goal of going to college is to graduate and get MONEY, perferably a high-paying job."</p>
<p>Oh really? I thought the goal was to actually get an education! Not to get a degree in something you can easily learn while on the job. Some people actually like to enlighten themselves. silly me!</p>
<p>i think a lot of it depends on the school. at most schools, business majors are a complete joke. at top schools though(wharton or even hass, stern, ross, etc.) business majors work their really hard, though still probably not as hard as someone in math or physics.</p>
<p>@ wutang: i think goldman would be more likely to take a wharton finance major over the dartmouth philosophy guy, though of course both are fine options. business major probably gives a slight advantage to ibanking jobs, but obviously caliber of school is much more important. to make it specific to wutang, dartmouth anything >>>> mcgill business > mcgill philosophy for banking</p>
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<p>Deal with it. I've taken the most difficult b-school weeder classes at McGill, including an MBA course. They're a joke compared to an easy math class. And I'm sorry, most undergrad business majors do not make the big bucks. They make 50k/year doing cubicle wage-slave jobs.</p>
<p>Goldman Sachs will hire a philosophy major at Dartmouth over a business major any day.</p>
<p>"Business Admin." is the most popular major now. Guess what isn't? Electrical Engineering. Go figure.</p>
<p>Studying business is like studying how to be cool instead of learning to do things that actually make you cool....get the analogy?
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<p>This is coming from a dude who's interested in business (yes, I've seen you on the business forums) and has the word 'financial' in his username. The hypocrisy is earth-shattering.</p>
<p>^ isn't that guy an ECON major... not even business?</p>
<p>As an engineering student, yes, we think business is for dumb ppl and we love to make fun of ppl who are business major. Ppl can do business with out business degree. Why not just save the $ from 4 years of school and use that $ to start a real business.</p>
<p>^that'd be like saying one shouldn't go to film school and should make their own movies. O_O</p>
<p>1.)i think engineers like to make fun of business majors b/c they know that marketing/accounting/management degrees will get higher salaries after a few years on the job-not exactly effort-optimism.</p>
<p>2.)seriously, business majors take classes on sharing toys and how to look bad-ass. I've taken one biz class(high 200 level) and it was insulting-no final, no tests, and the teacher was a moron...didnt learn a thing, just heard a few good jokes. the classes simply lack substance.</p>
<p>the only thing I remember him saying was "Success in business(management) depends on how far you'll play office politics. Thats it"</p>
<p>3.) while being an entrepreneur can prove to be difficult, the actual field of management is not worth the $$$$, imo.</p>
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<p>Yep, I know a guy who did that, used to be a chemistry major and he switched to business, guess why. He said it was easier. Another guy I talked to says he's pretty good at computer programming but is thinking about being a business major because he 'doesn't want to do any work' (or some such). I've had other conversations in the past about this with people at school and the impression that I get is that Business is the easiest major here hands down, which might explain why its one of the most populated majors at our school (if not the most populated one).</p>
<p>Business majors are often not intellectual. As another poster commented, they are concerned with sports, money, cars, and women. Not all of them are like that, but the vast majority are. I was a business major up to about a month ago because I couldn't stand the classes: I want to develop myself further, not learn vocational skills. What can you learn from business that you can't get on the job? I'm not saying that people shouldn't major in business, I actually think it's a great major for a lot of people (especially those who are not interested in academics, and like sports, money, cars, and women). However, I do believe that it makes more sense at a community college than at a 4 year university for most students. I know some very intelligent business majors that do not fit the stereotype, but I still wonder why they are wasting their time with business rather than taking classes that are interesting (oddly enough, the intelligent senior business majors wish they would've done a social science or a humanities major if they could do it again).</p>
<p>If you happen to be someone that watches ESPN all day, then great, business is for you. I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing to do, it's just not in line with my own interests. However, if you do have intellectual interests and are fairly intelligent, do yourself a favor and major in something that you can learn from in a way that can make you a more educated individual (not how to work with excel and what different accounting practices are).</p>
<p>I agree that science majors are tough, but don't rule out certain humanities as well. Philosophy and classics are two prime examples. I know that in Britain, many students avoid taking the Latin A-level because of its difficulty. And reading Homer in Greek is just insane. Philosophical books can be as hard to understand as physics books. I'm just saying this because I'm starting to sense a superiority among the science students in the thread.</p>
<p>And to the person who said the easiest major is the one with the most football players, that's true. I know many college coaches who give out lists of the easiest courses to athletes.</p>
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I'm starting to sense a superiority among the science students on this entire forum.
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<p>Fixed that for you. ;) College confidential is always a little ridiculous, especially on this front.</p>
<p>I think, who cares how difficult something is as long as you're doing what you love? Some people are business majors and some people are physics majors. Some people are physics majors and some people are astrophysics majors. Some people like to paint murals and some people like to design homes. It makes no sense to say one is superior because it is more difficult than the other.</p>
<p>to the dude trying to denigrate me for being an econ major instead of business:
you're an idiot. I'm double majoring in finance and econ, and I have the actual humility and honesty to admit that my business classes are a joke. Game theory, econometrics, calculus- not so much a joke. </p>
<p>I'm taking b-school classes cuz I'm lazy and there's better looking girls in business classes.</p>
<p>Also, McGill is universally considered a difficult school....and we have strict grade distribution policies, as do all Canadian schools. So the average can never be higher than a B- in business classes, yet I still get A's in them, and I'm not a great student.</p>
<p>lol owned by wutang</p>
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there's better looking girls in business classes.
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That's so true!!!</p>
<p>Sure b-classes are easier than engineering, but i dont want to hear any trash talking from liberal arts majors. You LA majors are going to be making nothing compared to business majors, and you know it. At most schools, being admitted to the business school is difficult, while anybody can be a LA or natural sciences major.</p>
<p>I'm going to dental school to be an oral surgeon, I'll be making more than 90% of business majors. Just because anyone can become admitted to a science major, doesn't mean a worse student can make it through..</p>
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Sure b-classes are easier than engineering, but i dont want to hear any trash talking from liberal arts majors. You LA majors are going to be making nothing compared to business majors, and you know it.
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<p>Some people care about more in life than making money. Sheesh.</p>
<p>Majoring in business isn't difficult at most schools, but there's a huge amount of time you have to spend outside of classes and homework. If you want to be successful, that is. Of course, if you just coast then it's a relatively easy major.</p>
<p>Wait, how many people actually care more about satisfying their own intellectual curiosities than get a good paying job? Surely, you can't be thinking about the purpose of life or how to quantitatively describe the behaviour of atoms and molecules when you your bank account only has $1k saved up for a rainy day?</p>
<p>College is no longer a place to seek knowledge. A college degree is the high school diploma of the 21st century. Most people just want to get their BA or BS and get a good paying job. Those who are genuinely interested in seeking knowledge will go to grad school.</p>
<p>^what Steevee said is true.</p>
<p>That said, I'm trying to use my smarts to make more than 99% of passionless, apathetic business majors.</p>
<p>If I take the time to say, start a small global macro hedge fund based on my own raw abilities and knowledge, and my track record attracts capital, I've truly accomplished something.</p>
<p>Or I start an advisory website, or any number of other ventures with potentially high pay offs that require genuine inspiration.</p>
<p>Also, the most important criteria for b-school: being good looking and tall. </p>
<p>Why do you think all the grad programs are full of ugly people? Because they don't have the looks or social grace to "make it" out of undergrad by simply climbing the corporate ladder.</p>