<p>i wanted to take management, but I heard its very hard for a management undergraduate to find a administration job, plus I am going to study MBA anyway, so what subject I should take in my undergraduate years to maximize my chances on career and for MBA?</p>
<p>Finance or accounting is a good one, if you want to do business for undergrad. You can double major accounting or finance and management. :)</p>
<p>a lot of school offer undergrad business majors. some don't though, for example uchicago doesn't. look into it!</p>
<p>will Accounting or finance help me if I wanna be a manager latter on?
how about marketing or IB?</p>
<p>It's not what you do in undergrad, it's what you do after undergrad and before applying to an MBA program. As long as you have a decent GPA, it doesn't matter what you major in.</p>
<p>The main thing MBA schools look for is work experience. Not just any work experience, though - they want to make sure you've made efforts to get "higher-level" positions. This is a good indicator that the applicant would benefit from an MBA; it shows that a given company saw promise in him/her.</p>
<p>You can study engineering if you want, biology, chemistry; really - anything (almost).</p>
<p>fool,
will that be OK if I study management for UG?will I able to find a job(like a manager) cuz I really dont like the majors other than business, or you can suggest me some other business majors,like finance</p>
<p>If you like business, do business. I would suggest you go to your university's website and read the description of the various majors, the courses they take and where they go when they graduate. Then choose the one that you like most.</p>
<p>Why do the graduate business schools let students have so much freedom in their undergraduate majors? Wouldn't it be better for students seeking an MBA to have had four years' worth of finance/business/economics/etc. studies?</p>
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<p>Probably because most people will not end up actually working in whatever they majored in. For example, few history majors actually become historians. Few political science students actually become professional political scientists. </p>
<p>The truth is that most things you learn in college, you will never actually use. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. What really matters is not so much the specific courses you took, but rather to 'learn how to learn'. For example, if a course assigns you to deconstruct Shakespeare, it's not because you are going to have a job later in your life deconstructing Shakespeare. It's because doing so teaches you how to write and how to formulate an argument and express it lucidly. </p>
<p>Look, the truth is, plenty of people will major in X and then end up working in something that has little to do with X. If that person is highly successful in his job, then why wouldn't a B-school take such a person? On the other hand, if somebody majors in finance/business/economics, and then has a mediocre career, then obviously the B-schools wouldn't want to take them.</p>
<p>But theoretically, people who go to finance/business/econ, have a bigger chance to be successful in the area than a history major right?</p>
<p>I'd say engineering ensures a higher success rate than finance/business/econ. Just as sakky said, they want people who are trainable; and engineers are such people.</p>
<p>There are many ways to get into a top MBA program. It's better to have a 3.5 to 4.0 in a major and classes you enjoy than a 2.0 to 2.6 in something that you feel that will get you into business school, but you don't like. In my honest opinion, the business programs at the undergraduate level is just as competitive as pre-med and engineering, as far as profressional majors are concerned. Follow your interest and you'll do fine. </p>
<p>Also,
When you register for a class, check on the professor's reputation before you sign-up for that class. There plenty of good teachers and bad teachers in every class. So shop around.</p>
<p>fool,</p>
<p>What about fields that are similar to engineering, like biophysics or chemistry? Students also learn to be analytical and to have excellent communication skills in the sciences (in order to clearly articulate findings, etc.). Or is there another reason why engineering is particularly desirable?</p>
<p>a backdoor way to top mba programs is to be something useless like an art history major, go off with the peace corps and solve world hunger but make sure you get some type of management experience in that 3rd world country, then apply to b-schools.</p>
<p>why? because b-schools (at least the top ones) are suckers for diversity. and not just in the ethnic/racial sense either. they want people from all walks of life with varied experiences/backgrounds.</p>
<p>Engineering is more analytical than sciences, in my opinion. You have to learn basic principles and apply them to complex tasks.</p>
<p>I think I ll just do finance, since it s my strength</p>