<p>Came across this on the BusinessWeek rankings thread, but didn't have a detailed discussion there. It's a good read.</p>
<p>If</a> You Know You'll Get An MBA...</p>
<p>I'm definitely going to get my MBA in the next few years after I've done my Bachelor's. However, after reading this, I'm thinking that Econ major might be a good option.</p>
<p>What do you guys think ? Is Bachelor's in Business Admin worth it if you're going to get MBA ? Or Bachelor's in Econ is better ?</p>
<p>Do which ever one you enjoy more, and which ever you'll be better at. This is the general advice for everything, by the way.</p>
<p>The article doesn't mention the thousands of biology majors that end up working 30k jobs and end up spending years and years pursuing a PHD only to have all those years of hard work payoff in a relatively mediocre salary (ie 70k). The article also doesn't mention the thousands of humanity majors that end up working at Starbucks post-graduation.</p>
<p>Will simply an undergrad business degree get you into a good MBA program? Nope. Undergrad economics degree? Nope. Biology? Nope. It takes a lot more than an undergrad degree to get into a top school.</p>
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<p>I love this quote. That's really thinking outside of the box...going to Harvard rather than pursuing a business degree at a lesser university.</p>
<p>That article is an example of truly mediocre journalism.</p>
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It's BusinessWeek.</p>
<p>Yes, just go to Harvard. Simple as that. What a joke-maybe they need to link this article to H's current year admissions of under 10% of many gifted applicants. It's like saying, want to start a company. first get $10,000,000 from your account.</p>
<p>This is similar to the Donald Trump thing. Rich father, does some relatively good work early on, buys into certain areas of the NY real estate market, does poorly in all other business ventures once he's several years into it, does incredibly well with that old NY property once the real estate market takes off (all boats rise, etc). Now he's writing books telling people how to make money. </p>
<p>This girl goes to Harvard to major in biology, she'll get high quality internships and end up in the business world if she wants to (internships > major), and she'll be able to say it's because she's quirky and decided to major in something more holistic or whatever bs people can come up with to give credit to everything but the absolute machine that is Harvard's career services office.</p>
<p>It boggles the mind.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies.</p>
<p>I enjoy both Econ and Business and I'm pretty good at both, so I'm fine with either degrees. I believe that Econ undergraduate and Business undergraduate salary is comparable.</p>
<p>Let's say you're in Berkeley and were given a choice to major either in Business or Econ. Which one would you choose, knowing that you will go for MBA in the next 3-4 years ?</p>
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Forgot to add about minors. Is it possible to have like Business major with Econ minor or vice versa ? If yes, is it a good idea ?</p>
<p>If there was some mythical land in which I enjoyed the study of business and the study of econ at an absolutely equal level, and I knew my salary and my exact job would be the very same because I got an internship at a place with either that I'd end up working at, and I knew that I was going for the MBA 3-4 years down the line... I'd go for economics, because it's generally a more academic discipline, and it can be a purely academic discipline depending on what you classes you choose to take, and I'd learn what I needed to learn on the job while the MBA would shore up any knowledge gaps. It would be my only chance in the foreseeable future to study something with theory. Turning down Haas would be difficult, but that's not the question.</p>
<p>I have no idea if Berkeley has a ba minor. Minors are fine if you just happen to be taking the courses to qualify for one, but the thing to keep in mind is that they are, in and of themselves, worthless in the job application process. They are a single line of text on your transcript, they're only a few courses and people will see that, and really... it doesn't matter. If you can you should take business courses, there are plenty of history and comparative literature majors out there who have turned a few cs courses into software development gigs, and having those courses on your transcript will make you a more attractive applicant. If you're on the fence about taking one course, and that one course magically happens to be the last course you have to take for the minor then yeah, take it. But don't go out of your way for it.</p>