<p>I'm just wondering bc my teacher always says the people who major in business are the ones who can't handle engineering, math, or science-related majors.</p>
<p>I personally don't care what he thinks (bc i want to major in business).....but what I would like to know is if the major is considered easy?</p>
<p>Compared to the previously mentioned majors, yes.</p>
<p>the only majors i think are harder is engineering and pharmacy.
math isn't so bad.. and the people who major in math are really good at it. people that major in bio or physics? same thing.</p>
<p>Math isn't so bad....when compared to business? You have to be kidding.</p>
<p>I think it all comes down to the type of student you are. My roommate is a chemical engineer. Give him my business books and he won't be getting the same 3.7 that he is getting now. If you are passionate about a major then you will do better in it. But on the flip side if he gave me his engineering books I wouldn't do well. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>Stefan
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<p>Funny how you business majors like to fool your self into thinking you have a hard major.</p>
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I think it all comes down to the type of student you are. My roommate is a chemical engineer. Give him my business books and he won't be getting the same 3.7 that he is getting now. If you are passionate about a major then you will do better in it. But on the flip side if he gave me his engineering books I wouldn't do well. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>Stefan
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I've</a> never heard of a 50% fail rate in a business class. I've seen it in engineering. They aren't even remotely the same.</p>
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I've never heard of a 50% fail rate in a business class. I've seen it in engineering. They aren't even remotely the same.
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<p>I have also seen this in some of my math and stat classes.</p>
<p>Marketing and Management majors have the easy road. Accounting majors the most difficult with finance majors facing moderate difficulty</p>
<p>Depends on the school....if you're at Wharton-UPENN or Stern-NYU you die.</p>
<p>I think it is harder than many liberal arts majors and easier than engineering and some sciences. Hard enough to challenge most students as many skills are required--math, writing, research, public speaking etc.</p>
<p>Its math is very primitive, hardly math intensive at all. It is easier than ANY science major. By far one of the easiest majors. Very little quantatative skills needed. Perfect major for those bad in math, even accounting and finance.</p>
<p>It completely depends on the school. Sure, it's easy if you study marketing at some ****ty third tier state school, but lets see you study finance at wharton.</p>
<p>Even if it's less academically challenging, the top undergraduate business programs are even more competitive than their math/engineering counterparts. It's the competitive nature of the classes that often makes it hard.</p>
<p>some ****ty third tier state school is most probably going to be using similar books that wharton uses. The only difference lies in the professor, and how can you say for sure that the third tier is going to have a easier professor? Maybe the professor is better, just less recognized. Only thing that is near certain is the competition that would be in your class for grades.</p>
<p>Sorry but the math needed for 98% of good real world professional jobs is just basic algebra, and a little bit of stats. Advanced math is a waste of time.</p>
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Sorry but the math needed for 98% of good real world professional jobs is just basic algebra, and a little bit of stats. Advanced math is a waste of time.
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<p>Not really, Engineers, Actuary, Statiticians, ect all need advanced math.</p>
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<p>Not really. The majority of engineers out there aren't really the ones that use calculus/diff eq/linear algebra or any kind of advanced math to do their jobs (with the exception of the ones who do "real engineering" work in a sense... but those are very few). Most engineers do work that is not related to anything that they learned in their classes. The goal of making them take such hard math classes is not because they will use the material when they are on the job... but to see if that person can handle the weeder classes which shows that they are hard working and are able to pick up things fast (thats the goal). Unless you're working for a think tank that does nothing but mathematics all day, then the higher level math/physics ect classes are completely worthless for engineers.</p>
<p>"the only majors i think are harder is engineering and pharmacy."</p>
<p>Math, Physics, Chemistry, and Philosophy are all easier than business?</p>
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Not really. The majority of engineers out there aren't really the ones that use calculus/diff eq/linear algebra or any kind of advanced math to do their jobs (with the exception of the ones who do "real engineering" work in a sense... but those are very few). Most engineers do work that is not related to anything that they learned in their classes. The goal of making them take such hard math classes is not because they will use the material when they are on the job... but to see if that person can handle the weeder classes which shows that they are hard working and are able to pick up things fast (thats the goal). Unless you're working for a think tank that does nothing but mathematics all day, then the higher level math/physics ect classes are completely worthless for engineers
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<p>I know a few engineers and you couldn't be more wrong.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that business is a PROFESSIONAL major unlike the liberal arts. The entire purpose of a business major is to prepare the business school student for a job/career in their respective fields of business (i.e. finance majors are designed to prepare you for a job in financial services or financial management. marketing majors are designed to prepare you for a job in marketing/PR/sales whereas a management major will prepare you for a job in general corporate management). Yeah, I understand where a lot of you are coming from in saying that business is an easy major, because obviously business is a PROFESSIONAL major and isn't really academic in nature. And if you INSIST on categorizing business in one of the three umbrellas (humanities, social sciences, math/hard science) business would fall under SOCIAL SCIENCE. And due to the dynamic nature of social sciences, it's harder than you would think. Business is a world where the most successful company/person's approach is the correct one, and since that's constantly changing, it's very dynamic. There's nothing that is FUNDAMENTALLY difficult in business: it's not too hard to understand the concepts, etc. But business is APPLIED in nature, not conceptual (and especially so since we don't live in a conceptual world). I guess this differs for everyone based on their abilities and skill sets, but I find business more interesting and easier to study than engineering because it's a social science.</p>
<p>I would say it depends on the school and your skill sets (i.e. what you're good at). Business might be an incredibly difficult major for you if you hate social sciences, but business certainly isn't EASY at most decent schools (even if you're already running a $multimillion company, since people's needs and wants and whims are constantly changing and business is based on that).</p>