<p>Are there many jobs in the field?
What is the average salary?
I'd be in the New Jersey/New York area most likely.</p>
<p>I was also thinking about minoring in marketing, finance, public relations, or maybe accounting. What do you guys think about that?</p>
<p>the average salary is $0. don’t major in it… you don’t learn how to manage a company in college. major in finance</p>
<p>^Don’t listen to him, and take a look:</p>
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<p>okay hes ^ definitely right. You should major in Business Management. Enjoy not getting a job…</p>
<p>Major in a subject matter. When you get that job and do well, you will get a management promotion. Don’t major in management. </p>
<p>Marketing, finance, public relations and accounting can be complete opposites.</p>
<p>Marketing stats, data mining and probabilities can be similar to finance and maybe accounting. Accounting is really a Do It This Way kind of profession, so creative types feel a bit stifled.</p>
<p>Marketing/advertising and public relations are similar: Words, intuition, psychology, creativity.</p>
<p>Do kids these days really major in something just because of job opportunities and/or salaries?</p>
<p>if your going to major in business management/admin, focus on a subjects like finance or acct.</p>
<p>salaries in new york area tend to be higher than other areas. you can do an easy googling to find the pay scales for each specialization.</p>
<p>@webass: yes if you dont want to end up poor as ****.
And I agree with AsTran, Go with Finance or Accounting. (Or MIS if you like technology/programming)</p>
<p>Business administration is sufficient if you are going to a school that does not offer anything but BBA to undergrads (like Cal and UNC). Otherwise, major in what you were planning on minoring in and minor in BA.</p>
<p>khockey, the glimmers of truth in your statements are surrounded by emotive nonsense. The less you force the issue, the more people will actually embrace your position. Ironic I know.</p>
<p>I’m really not that good with math though, so while accounting and finance seem stable and safe, I don’t think I’d do that well.
How about hospitality and tourism? Is there any money in that?
And I heard PR is very hard to get into and requires a certain type of personality.
I also heard that marketing and advertising don’t offer many opportunities and I’m not sure on the salaries for any of these jobs?
Any opinions or insights? Anyone?</p>
<p>Hospitality involves long hours and relatively low pay from what I heard. Intuitively, hospitality, aka hotels, is a 24/7 industry unlike say restaurant management. PR is more of something innate rather than something that can be learned academically. Marketing and advertising is a very tight field and if you want to be someone other than a salesman, then you will need to attend a top school that is recruited by marketing firms.</p>
<p>Accounting involves very basic math, and finance doesn’t get overly complicated for the most part. After all, most business programs only require calculus I and stats.</p>
<p>Management is the weakest major in the business field. Avoid if at all possible.</p>
<p>^Yet, statistics shows that a lot of successful people have majored in BA or economics, which are considered to be week and broad majors.</p>
<p>Economics is considered weak? By who exactly? And a management major is better than not having any degree (most of the time), but there are certaintly better alternatives.</p>
<p>BA is less math based than a BS in econ. Any just because a handful of people have been successful with XYZ degree does not mean someone from a normal school will be successful with a degree in management. You wont be competitive with accounting majors in accounting. You won’t know the basics that a finance major will. You will be 21-22 when you graduate. What the hell would anyone that age know about management.</p>
<p>Management majors from Town USA University get jobs which strictly have the pre-requisite of a “4 year degree.” Thus, people with a management degree CAN get a job, but not usually in what they expected. Such jobs, as referenced above, are as much available for management majors as they are for theatre majors. </p>
<p>And for the Business Admin degree, yes, quite a number of Business Admin degrees FROM TOP SCHOOLS get good job placement. For example, the only UG degrees available in top business programs such as UC-Berkley and UNC are BA majors. If one goes to Town USA University and graduates with a business admin degree, however, view the paragraph above and substitute “management” with “business admin.”</p>
<p>The bottom line is this: management and BA majors are pointless because the requisites for them only include taking intro courses in each business discipline without actually specializing in any.</p>
<p>@Trizz75
Correct me if my assumption is wrong, but I thought all Business Admin degrees require a concentration in field such as finance, accounting, etc. If so, does that gives a Business Admin degree more weight in terms of job opportunities?</p>
<p>I didn’t know it was a requirement across the board, but yes. A concentration is just as good as a straight major. My school graduates all business students with management majors and a concentration as you said. Management and BA are not all bad in that they offer a good, solid survey of all business disciplines. But, they lack specialization, which concentrations remedy.</p>