<p>Is a B.A. in Global Studies good for a masters in international business?</p>
<p>Bump 10 char.</p>
<p>Id avoid all majors with “Studies” in the name.</p>
<p>Why? 10char</p>
<p>Degrees are best at two things.</p>
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<li><p>Proving you are smart: That means if you have a degree in Quantum Physics from MIT people will be willing to hire you for all sorts of things. Even if what you do has nothing to do with what you learned in school, they’ll know you are smart enough to learn anything you need to learn anyway. If you’ve got a high GPA in something that everyone knows requires hard work and sheer brainpower(or a passable GPA in something REALLY hard), you can get hired.</p></li>
<li><p>Showing you’ve learned to do something people need done. The world needs engineers, accountants, plumbers, etc. If you’ve got a piece of paper that says “I can design a valve” or “I can do closing general ledger entries” or “I can fix a leaky faucet”, they’ll hire you. </p></li>
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<p>Most majors with “studies” in them don’t do either. Nobody thinks someone with a 3.5 in Women’s Studies or Global Studies is really all that smart. It’s just assumed that you sailed through college getting lots of easy A’s. Whether that’s true or not doesn’t matter, it’s what most hiring managers are going to think. They certainly don’t teach you how to do anything worth paying for. You might claim they teach you how to “think” about “global things” or maybe you think you’ll learn how to write but nobody is going to believe that either.</p>
<p>[UCLA</a> Global Studies Major and Minor IDP Program](<a href=“http://www.international.ucla.edu/idps/globalstudies/]UCLA”>Program.::. UCLA Academics)</p>
<p>I mean it focuses on so much, I would think it must be good prep along with 2-3 yrs of work, high gpa, and high test scores, for biz school. No?</p>
<p>A good business school wants people with good (read: prestigious or lots of leadership) work experience. Do you feel this degree will get you into a good enough job to land a top MBA program?</p>
<p>^That is what I am trying to figure out. Do you have any suggestions?</p>
<p>bump bump bump</p>
<p>Well, UCLA is a great school, but I have honestly never heard of this major so I don’t really know how to answer that.</p>
<p>“I mean it focuses on so much,”</p>
<p>Exactly. How can it focus on anything when it is trying to focus on everything? Also, skim over that page again and look at all the topics it covers. Doesn’t it appear that every single one of those topics could potentially be covered by Political Science electives? Outside of top students of the Ivy League, do you see Political Science graduates getting good jobs, especially in this economy? I don’t. Someone else posted a similiar topic a while back. Ultimately, he had to decide if his primary goal was to major in something that interested him greatly or something that would get him a good job immediately. I think he ultimately decided to go with what interests him, and there is nothing wrong with that. But you have to make the same decision - in the case of the major that interests you, unfortunately it cannot be both. It is either one or the other. A good job immediately is highly unlikely. It’s going to be a struggle getting a halfway decent job and it may take a little while to to be promoted into a job you consider “good,” if you work hard.</p>
<p>Now if this specific department in UCLA had some special connections with employers and are actively and easily placing their good students straight into good jobs, that is a different story. That would be very surprising however, and that is information you can only get from alumni of the program and/or <em>factual statistics</em> from the department/career center (not some random example of how a small group of people got 70,000+ jobs, where UCLA forgets to also tell you that they all had influencial parents with connections).</p>