<p>MBA schools do not like to see Business for their applicants undergrad major because the students know half the stuff already. Schools want people with open minds, so its better to major in something else if you want to do an MBA after?</p>
<p>I am not a grad school admissions officer. However from what I have heard from previous threads like these, If you go to a top Business program like Wharton, Stern, Ross, Sloan, etc (u know the elite business programs) , then it wont really make much of a difference , if at all. If you go to a not so top program then it the adcoms might not like it that much.</p>
<p>Having said all that , one of the most important factors , and possibly the most important one, is work experience. If you have got superb work experience, then it doesnt really matter what u majored in at all!</p>
<p>Totally false.</p>
<p>Check the statistics at any MBA program and you'll find that about 23 to 25% of those going into the program were undergraduate business majors--which almost always is the largest percentage of any undergraduate major represented in the programs.</p>
<p>This is a self-perpetuating myth based upon false information that keeps getting repeated--usually by those who chose not to do an undergraduate business major.</p>
<p>MBA programs want students who will be marketable to employers and will earn a lot of money in the future. How much a student will learn is far less important. (btw, former business students will learn a great deal in a good MBA program).</p>
<p>lol *** u didnt need to pwn me like that lol</p>
<p>23-25% of those ppl were business majors right?</p>
<p>thats means 75% were NOT business majors.</p>
<p>Which is higher 75% or 25%?</p>
<p>Like i said, good job experience will get you into a top MBA program, not a business major. It might be a small factor, but the biggest is def. job experience so in undergrad major in what u like.</p>
<p>I'm not trying to make this a competition--or to disrespect anyone--just putting out some facts.</p>
<p>Your latest argument is superflous, however--since there is no one major that makes up 75% of any class at any MBA school in the entire US. Business majors make up about 23 to 25%, on average, at most schools--which is the largest percentage of people from any one particular major area (engineers are a very close second, historically). I'm not arguing that undergraduate business majors are greater than 50% at any MBA program--just that they are the largest group in most programs. (averages are something like 25% business, 22% engineering, 20% humanities majors (philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, etc.) 15% sciences (chemistry, physics, medical sciences, etc.), and 18% other majors.)</p>
<p>However, I'm not disagreeing at all with your contention that the top MBA programs require people to have job experience--and the better the experience, the better the chance of getting into the MBA program. On this topic I'd say we agree 100%.</p>
<p>Yea</p>
<p>I think i worded my reply's in a mixed way. But yea all im saying is that good job exp>>>>>>>ur major in ugrad . So no need to sweat about it and just pursue what you like in ugrad.</p>
<p>On that, I also totally agree with you--and it is very good advice you provide.</p>
<p>lol thx. Though this advice has been said on this forum like every 2 days ,should be stickied somewhere lol</p>
<p>ya but you should account for the fact that a greater percentage of business majors may be applying to MBA programs in the first place. . . right?</p>
<p>yea thats also a valid reason. So just major in whateva u like .</p>