<p>I am currently a freshmen in college at a CC. I am planning to transfer within 2 maybe 3 years if I choose engineering as a major since I have a lot of math courses to take which will take a while. I love business and working with people, as I am a person who love to socialize and negotiate things. I might plan on doing management work in the future, on the other hand I also love working with computers, especially with software. I do not know for sure, since this is my first year of college, but from what I had heard that doing a business major would be difficult to work at a Big 4, or to find a job itself unless you graduate from an Ivy league, or Cal Berkeley or something. The problem is that I might not maintain a 4.0 throughout CC to get into Cal Berk. To be honest I really am in it for the money to, where an engineer would be a tougher major to accomplish, where If i had graduated I would probably feel like my hard work would be payed off IF I had find a stable and secure job with a pretty high pay as my first job. The job market is a major concern to me and I know that if I choose engineering the name of your graduated school would not matter as much as a business major. I deeply apologize for this long post, but I am a freshmen in college at a CC and thus I wan't to make early decisions and maintain my focus at school. </p>
<p>So you’re asking complete strangers who know nothing about your personal skill set to advise you to choose business or engineering? </p>
<p>Judging from the things you said, you are misinformed on so many levels it’s scary. Ivy League for Big 4? Guaranteed job with an engineering degree? Please, do yourself a favor and do some research. </p>
<p>PS. Your name is Kevin, so I assume your native language is English? I cannot even decipher half of what you are saying. Maybe an English major would benefit you the most?</p>
<p>Kevin, I recommend engineering. It’s better. The only way you’ll regret it is if you decide later that you want to do business, because the switch will be impossible because you need a 4.0 in business to not have your resume spat on and set ablaze by HR workers.</p>
<p>Just take more classes and start to see what interests you more. Hopefully something pops out at you. Going into a field because you feel like you will be able to land a job easier isn’t a horrible idea, but don’t just choose it only because of this. Make sure it is something that you enjoy and can do for a while. Also, don’t listen to Whistleblower. He huffed paint as a child.</p>
<p>Also, the big 4 are the major accounting firms and you are mixing these up with the Bulge Bracket, which are the banks. The Bulge Brackets are the ones that are elitist and mainly like Ivy kids. The big 4 recruit all around, actually more out of Ivy because unless I am mistaken, most(if not all) Ivies don’t offer undergrad accounting.</p>
<p>Whistleblower1, thanks for the hilarious post! I’m almost rolling on the floor, laughing! It’s really funny because the HR workers themselves don’t have 4.0s. :D</p>
<p>Again, plscatamacchia and now Longhorn, the OP was not saying that the Ivy League is a means to getting to the big four. Both of you have bad reading comprehension, doubly so for Longhorn because he badly read the OP and didn’t read/terribly read my post. Let me guess, both of you are business majors with GPAs over 3.5 and SAT scores under 2000. You don’t even need to answer that, so don’t.</p>
<p>I see that you are interested in computers, if I’m right, then you probably should look at either sofware engineering or CIS. By the way, for engineering a school’s name also matters, probably even more than for accounting.</p>
<p>And Whistle, stop pretending that all engineers have a low GPA–it is an absurd. Those people who have a low GPA are not interested in engineering, and picked this major because of the assumptions made about engineers–as a result–they screw up. The same thing is happening with accounting, when people choose this degree because of the job stability/whatever, and when they start taking classes–“they commit suicide.”</p>
<p>Whistleblower. Funny that you talk about bad reading comprehension. </p>
<p>"I do not know for sure, since this is my first year of college, but from what I had heard that doing a business major would be difficult to work at a Big 4, or to find a job itself unless you graduate from an Ivy league, or Cal Berkeley or something. "</p>
<p>Look for the word “or”. See it? I’ll let you try to comprehend what he is saying now that I’ve pointed out that very important word.</p>
<p>Where did I say that? Is this more bad reading comprehension? Whatever, you’re foreign, you get a pass.</p>
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<p>After spending some time on this forum, I’ve become very accustomed to deciphering the ramblings of people who are bad at writing sentences/thinking. Trust me, him saying “itself” basically means “at all”, i.e. “find any job at all with a business degree”. </p>
<p>The “or” works against you regardless. It signifies that he’s changing topics slightly (from big four to any job in a business field), but still something in the same vein. You need to get better at reading if you want to succeed in life. Memorization only takes you so far, memorizer.</p>
<p>By the way, the big four employ people aside from accountants, especially in their more high-end, high-IQ types of positions, i.e. advisory. So you’re both doubly wrong for jumping on the OP like that. It’s almost like you’re getting preemptively defensive against the inevitable business v. engineering comparo.</p>
<p>Okay plscatamacchi sorry that I can not be perfect with my writing structure in order for you to understand what I am saying, I am here to talk about the differentiation between engineering and business as a major, don’t have to go on bashing about my post because it did not suit your reading.</p>
<p>Whistle, “Kevin, I recommend engineering. It’s better. The only way you’ll regret it is if you decide later that you want to do business, because the switch will be impossible because you need a 4.0 in business”</p>
<p>For example, here you suggest that if he goes to engineering, he will not be able to switch to business because he is going to have a low GPA in engineering. </p>
<p>Apart from that, in all other threads, you alwas say that engineers have a high IQ/low GPA, while business students have opposite. Am I wrong?</p>
<p>Take a few advance calculus classes in college. If you enjoy and are good with the math, you should do engineering. Business math is very basic compared to engineering.</p>
<p>My understanding is that there is a strong market for engineers and the salary is generally good.</p>
<p>Here is the breakdown of one of McComb’s MBA class of 2011:
Business: 28%
Liberal Arts: 20%
Technical: 34%
Economics: 12%
Other: 7%</p>
<p>Here is Harvard’s for the '11 class:
Business Administration 26%
Engineering/Natural Sciences/Technical Disciplines 33%
Humanities/Social Sciences 40%
Other 2%</p>
<p>and Wharton’s for '11
Humanities/Social Science 42%
Engineering/Math/Science 30%
Business 24%
Other 4%</p>
<p>draw whatever conclusions you want.</p>
<p>Also, I did misread the first post and see what he what he meant about the big 4 and Ivy.</p>