<p>dumb major choice?</p>
<p>from what i hear, on here, and elsewhere it is...</p>
<p>how academically demanding is it?</p>
<p>Think about it using common logic, how can you learn to manage people, when you're being lectured. Doesn't make sense to me.</p>
<p>Best business majors, though themselves not attractive or academically challenging at all, would be accounting and finance because grads of these types are in high demand and are more skill-equiped majors.</p>
<p>If you're aiming to be someone in the management position, I would suggest doing sociology, psychology, politcal science or a more general liberal arts degrees which will boarden your understanding of the world rather than just learning how to run a sucessful business (which by the way can never be learned in a classroom). These knowledge will become more useful for a manager or executive when making major decisions. The business knowledge required can easily be mastered when you start working, but the stuff you learn in liberal arts and social sciences goes a long way in your sucess.</p>
<p>so why does everyone rag on liberal arts majors?</p>
<p>abcboy70: Please stop giving such bad and uninformed advice...</p>
<p>"Think about it using common logic, how can you learn to manage people, when you're being lectured. Doesn't make sense to me.</p>
<p>And if you've ever bothered to take a business course at a good school, you'd realize that most are not lecture based. </p>
<p>"Best business majors, though themselves not attractive or academically challenging at all, would be accounting and finance because grads of these types are in high demand and are more skill-equiped majors."</p>
<p>Not attractive or academically challenging? Based on what?</p>
<p>"If you're aiming to be someone in the management position, I would suggest doing sociology, psychology, politcal science or a more general liberal arts degrees which will boarden your understanding of the world rather than just learning how to run a sucessful business (which by the way can never be learned in a classroom). These knowledge will become more useful for a manager or executive when making major decisions. The business knowledge required can easily be mastered when you start working, but the stuff you learn in liberal arts and social sciences goes a long way in your sucess."</p>
<p>As someone with both a psychology and a business degree, I can say that you've got a very one sided view of the issue. There are strengths and weaknesses to both a business and a liberal arts degree. Depending on where you went to school, a liberal arts degree may make it hard to get into business. A lot of good things can come out of an undergrad business degree, just the same as a liberal arts degree.</p>
<p>rightcoastsurf: abcboy70 is a troll. I wouldn't pay much attention to him. Whether or not it is academically challenging will depend greatly on the where you go. You should think about what you want to do after school and what schools you want to attend and then decide, based on that, if business is the right path for you.</p>
<p>but from what ive heard, business majors have it (probably) the easiest in college. I was thinking between business and engineering, but everyone kept warning me that unless i'm Sloan wharton tepper etc.. i'll find it easy???</p>
<p>I'm an alum of Georgia Tech. We're not known for a strong business school, although we're coming up in the ranks. If I were to major in just "management", I don't think I'd be in a strong position. I took extra courses to obtain minors in marketing and finance. These two designations, along with a degree in management, set me up for my first job - management consulting for Deloitte. But keep in mind, I had a lot of smaller internships along the way which made a big hiring impact when I was finally offered my first 'dream job'. I hope this helps, it just seemed to work well for me.</p>