Say I failed to get Prefer admission to Ross but get accepted and attend UMich. After a year of taking business classes, I decide to apply through regular admission for Ross. That failed too. What option do I have left if I still want to have a bachelor degree in a business major ?
Unless things have changed in the past few years, your choices are to transfer to a different university, or major in Econ in LS&A.
Note that you will not be taking a year of business class before applying to Ross. It would be likely Econ, Math, Writing, and some other pre-req.
Business minor?
Are you saying such a minor exists for students who are not admitted to Ross? There was not one in the past, but my info is a few years old.
There is now a minor available:
So you still need to apply to and get accepted to the minor, though. But another option for the OP to evaluate.
How can there be another business degree-granting entity in the same university? At Michigan, only Ross offers a Business degree. If you do not get in, your only option if you stay at Michigan is to major in a discipline offered at the CoE or LSA. There are several options, including:
Economics
Economics and Mathematics double major
Mathematics major and Ross minor
Financial Mathematics (offered by the Mathematics department)
Industrial Engineering
There’s a program for it now. It’s new.
damn this is way too risky. I guess I will either join through pref-admit or not joining at all. Thank you all.
“damn this is way too risky. I guess I will either join through pref-admit or not joining at all. Thank you all.”
What area of business are you interested in?
It is always risky. Even for schools that admitted directly into a major, it does not guarantee graduation.
I don’t see why someone couldn’t have a “business” career without a “business” degree. Almost everyone I know who works in business does not have a business degree. Some of them majored in English. You don’t really know how to do the job even if you graduate from Ross.
If it was a GPA issue that OP couldn’t get in, then he/she wouldn’t do well in any of these majors besides Econ.
If it were me, I would apply to the School of Information.
Or double major Statistics and Econ.
Then join some meaningful extracurricular where you work on a semester/year long project related to your career.
Then join something else that involves a lot of networking like a professional fraternity.
Learn to use Linkedin effectively. Visit the career center often, you’d be surprised how much they can actually help you.
Accounting is perhaps the only area where a BBA education will be helpful. For your undergraduate degree, you should consider more your intellectual interests rather than your career.
The advantage of Ross is the career service; and I believe you have access to it as a business minor.
I have a degree from Ross, and find it quite helpful. I work as a consultant, and am constantly changing industries, clients, and business areas. The business degree gives me a leg up in many areas. I have a basic understanding of operations, finance, accounting, marketing, business law, MIS, etc. that helps me come up to speed more quickly than people who don’t have that background. I also have a small business (my consulting business), and I don’t have to pay outsiders as much or at all for various functions because I can do them myself. If I do hire someone outside, I am pretty able to judge whether they are doing a good job or now. I am in no way dissing an education in other ares (one of my kids was a Poli Sci major, and the other is a Physics major). But don’t dismiss the value of a BBA or business minor, either.
@rjkofnovi Planning to double major in Finance+BusAdmin if I get rejected from Pref-Admit and decided to go to University of Florida.
@brantly because it still always better to already have some background info about something that I am planning to do. Also because I would hate majoring in a non-business major because none of them interest me.
@ForeverAlone I am not really worrying about my GPA in particular as I am a pretty decent student. What I am worrying about is not being interesting/wellround enough to be accepted to the BBA via normal admission.
Besides the options listed above, I have heard of people trying for Ross a second time (so they would need to spend 5 years on a bachelors). Also some people get a BGS with accounting taking up 1/3 of their courses.
Getting Ross career services is a pretty big deal. Otherwise, it would come down to costs and goals.
OP, agree with those above who say that a successful business career does not require an undergraduate business degree, although it is pretty helpful for finance and it sounds as though a minor is not enough for you.
I also agree with those above who say that the value of Ross is as much the access to recruiters as the degree itself. I can’t imagine that recruiters are nearly as interested in students with Ross minors, unless the student is obtaining some alternate degree of specific interest to the recruiter’s industry.
Do not assume you will get into Ross. I think the odds are generally good (aren’t they about 50/50? Maybe even better…someone else will have those numbers handy). However, I do personally know students who did not get into Ross and Haas (similar situation at Berkeley) and they did end up transferring to other colleges, which sort of ruins the undergraduate experience in my opinion.
There is now a business course within LSA. I am not sure what it is called and if it is a major, minor, or just some kind of concentration, but there is something new that is worth looking into.