<p>I've been researching for colleges, and Duke seems to be a great college, and I really want to go there. The only issue is I want to major in business, or something business related, such as marketing. I was wondering: At Duke, can you be an undergrad and major in marketing, or any other business majors?</p>
<p>I don’t think that you can major in business as an undergrad at Duke. See [Duke</a> University’s Fuqua School of Business](<a href=“http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/]Duke”>http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/)</p>
<p>The closest thing that they have is Economics.</p>
<p>Duke only has a graduate business school. It’s economics program is good, but if you want to study marketing, you’ll have to look elsewhere. I recommend starting your search with the US News top 10 undergrad b-schools. US News also offers a ranking of top schools for marketing, and if you want to get a glamorous/well-paying/door-opening marketing job, it would be very helpful to attend one of these programs:
[Undergraduate</a> business specialties: Marketing - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/spec-marketing]Undergraduate”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/spec-marketing)</p>
<p>In large corporations, most marketeers have MBAs. If you are interested in brand management, product management, do an undergrad in economics and go to a top B school.</p>
<p>Why not do a top marketing undergrad and increase your chances of working with a product manager at a large corporation out of undergrad? It happens, and it seems like the experience would be as useful as it is fun for you.</p>
<p>you can read economics at Duke but not business.</p>
<p>if you’d like Duke, you’re more likely going to like Wharton, Ross and McIntire as well. try to look into the undergrad business programs at those schools.</p>
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<p>A marketing degree at the undergraduate level is considered a soft (easy) major and economics is a more respected degree. Most top schools do not have marketing majors. An econ major is also more marketable and more likely leads to a better career track job which is an important criteria in admissions to top B school.</p>
<p>Every top undergraduate business program offers marketing. A lot of top schools don’t have undergrad business, but at the ones that do, marketing is actually a more selective major than economics, and it is more marketable at those schools.</p>
<p>I know marketing majors from my university who have internships and offers at top consulting firms and fortune 100 companies. A lot of them get fast-track to VP positions right out of undergrad at those very same fortune 100 companies, while econ majors are wishing they had the stats to transfer into the business school.</p>
<p>At Duke, it’ll probably be the economics students who you will be most likely to find with those opportunities, but saying an economics major from a university with a top marketing program is in any way better for someone who wants to work in business, especially marketing, is just wrong. At schools that have a top marketing undergrad, the marketing students will get better offers and eventually be in a better position to apply for an MBA program (that is, if they even need to go back).</p>
<p>Name the schools with a top undergrad marketing program.</p>
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<p>So you are still an undergrad with no working experience. From my personal experience in the branding industry I know this is not true. Which companies have fastracked these people that you know?</p>
<p>The rankings go: Penn, Michigan, Texas, Berkeley, UNC. The link is on post 3.</p>
<p>You don’t seem to get my point. At a university that actually offers undergrad marketing, the business program will be more selective and will open more doors. Yes, Duke economics will open more doors than average U marketing, but at somewhere like Michigan, Texas or Berkeley, the marketing majors will probably have better offers than economics majors.</p>
<p>It is very irrelevant, but for your information, the people I know who were fast-tracked work for Dell. I know there are a lot of companies marketing themselves to our marketing majors even now in the recession, but I don’t know very many recently graduated marketing majors, so I can’t provide a list of employers or whatever you think will refute my claim. However, I’ve yet to meet an economics major who’s first choice was not the business program.</p>
<p>What I’m interested to hear is how you figure an economics major at one of the universities I mentioned is actually going to have BETTER job prospects than a business student (management and international business majors aside).</p>
<p>Now you are arguing on an econ major vs business major.</p>
<p>There isn’t anything that an econ major can’t handle vs a marketing major.</p>
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<p>In what terms do you define better offers?
In terms of salary, the average marketing assistant salary is $37,471
<a href=“http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layouthtmls/swzl_compresult_national_SM15000267.html[/url]”>http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layouthtmls/swzl_compresult_national_SM15000267.html</a></p>
<p>The average salary of a financial analyst (econ major) is $47841
<a href=“http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layouthtmls/swzl_compresult_national_SM15000267.html[/url]”>http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layouthtmls/swzl_compresult_national_SM15000267.html</a></p>
<p>I am saying an undergrad econ major will have an variety of jobs open to them whereas a marketing major can only do marketing. Just take a look at job postings, it’s hard to find a job requiring a marketing major, most are finance, or econ majors.</p>
<p>For marketing managers, Dell recruits from MBA schools. As a matter of fact my niece, an MBA student, just interviewed at Dell last year, but tech companies are not the #1 choice for marketeers, their first choice is usually with a CPG company. But of course, you knew that , right?</p>
<p>I know an econ major can handle it, and yes, I have been arguing econ vs business. A marketing major would be in the school of business. By better jobs, I mean the marketing major would be in a better position to land the most relevant jobs to marketing. An investment banking job might want finance or economics majors, but they’re into heavy quant. However, top corporations and even top consulting firms recruit our marketing majors a lot more than economics majors. The OP was interested in marketing specifically, so I recommended studying marketing because it would probably be more interesting to the OP and if he goes to a good program, it will probably even set him up with a job he’ll enjoy more that would provide more relevant experience.</p>
<p>openedskittles, your argument is flawed. First you say the poster should major in marketing for the job opportunities, then you say they should choose ti because they like it.</p>
<p>here is the deal- Marketing will not land you the best starting salary, on its own. Majoring in Marketing and doubling with at least one other major at a top business school will land you a good job. Even so marketing jobs tend not to bring yout eh highest starting salary, but to due to high visibility you can rise through the ranks quicker.</p>
<p>an econ major at duke will trump a marketing major with an equal GPA from any school besides penn, cornell, mit, or michigan, especially when applying to top grad schools.</p>
<p>duke is soon going to start a finance concentration and a finance minor in their rcon department. Maybe you want to check that out.</p>
<p>def454, I am a bit sidetracked, but my arguement is not flawed. I did originally say that “if you want to study marketing, you’ll have to look elsewhere” and specified a “door-opening marketing job.”</p>
<p>I got into business school vs economics because cbreeze brought it up. Duke economics might trump most marketing majors, but I’m talking about a marketing major vs an economics major at the SAME university.</p>
<p>The best starting salary is often in investment banking. The OP was not interested in finance, yet you and cbreeze are both talking about job opportunity as if Wall Street is the only place to go.</p>
<p>As for your 4 schools where marketing would trump Duke econ. Even though this is in no way related to my original argument, I would definitely add Texas and Berkeley to your list, especially for jobs that are actually related to marketing.</p>
<p>that last part about the schools was more intended for the OP.</p>
<p>I am not saying wall street is the only place to go for jobs. I said that marketing can get you a very good job, but, for the most part, it takes some time to start making the real money. i myself do not want to work in finance or on wall street, so I know it is not the only way to go.</p>
<p>Anyways, OP, do what you want, do it at the best school possible. If you do decide to get into marketing I highyl suggest you double in international business and possibly take some sort of an asian language minor. That would ensure you a great job, especially if you are at a top school, like I am sure you will be if you are considering duke. business today is global and asia contaisn the biggest markets in the world, that is why i suggest addign an international perspective. Most schools amke it relativley easy to add an international busienss major anyway, soem dotne ven offer it as a major on its own.</p>