<p>This has sort of been one of the biggest factors in choosing where I will attend next year. I was accepted to Georgetown, so if I went there I would probably earn a BA in International Studies or something similar. On the other hand, I got into some other schools that I would most likely study in engineering and get a BS. International studies and the sciences are my two major interests, so I would be happy with either major I would be studying. However, I would like to go on perhaps to an MBA program later but I realize that the average age of students at top MBA programs is around 27, so I would have to work for a few years. My mom worries that if I get a BA from that prestigious school that it will be of no use. My mom attended college way back and first got a BA but couldn't find a suitable job with just a BA so she went back to college. She got her BS in engineering, got her MS at Michigan, and then found a suitable job later on. When she went to college though her tuition was practically nothing, so it didn't really hurt her financially to go back and do everything over. However, I would hate to have so much money not go to any use. So, I guess my major concern is can I do a lot with a BA from a school like Georgetown? </p>
<p>(This is obviously taking into consideration that I will do well academically wherever I attend.)</p>
<p>Thanks for taking the time and any information will really be appreciated.</p>
<p>I think that you can go into business school coming out of pretty much anywhere. But it'd be helpful if you'd give us a sense of which other schools you're considering besides Georgetown.</p>
<p>one suggestion ... contact the placement office at Georgetown and ask them for the placement stats and listings of hiring firms for the last 2-3 years of BA grads ... I think you and you mom will be pleasantly surprised by the placements of the BAs. </p>
<p>For example, the first line grunts at consulting companies (and some investment houses also) are recent BAs and BSs ... they hire the smartest succesfull graduates they can find whatever their major was ... and they go to top tier schools first ... so lots of Hoyas!</p>
<p>advanced degrees are overrated. I'l lmake this general statement, if you cant get a good job coming out of Gtown with a BS or BA, then you might need to look at yourself. If you have a clear interest in a field that has a long history of requiring advanced degrees, then perhaps ok. </p>
<p>what would an adv degree in Intl studies get someone? There are no companies that make "intl studies" products. I would guess you use Int Stud to get a job with a company that does business internationaly. do well in college, get a job, and then see if you need an advanced degree.</p>
<p>personally, i am wary of field that require multiple degrees to get in before anyone has shown any real adult productivity. thats a tough field to get into and spend 35 years.</p>
<p>A degree in engineering will almost certainly put on a career track upon graduation while the BA in IS will most likely not. Many BA students feel over qualified and underemployed in that first entry level job. In addition a BE in engineering and MBA is a powerful combination in many companies in the manufacturing sector of the economy.</p>
<p>HOWEVER(and isnt there always a however), do not fret about that first entry level job and use it as a determining factor in your choice of college or major. This is a time to follow your heart. It might be engineering but I suspect it might be that 4 years at Georgetown. You have your entire life ahead of you and if Georgetown is the place you envision yourself attending, go for it!</p>
<p>Those top consulting and IB firms are only hiring the top students so that might be 50 out of the total graduating class. After that it is a long way down.</p>
<p>Pennypac, the tone of that post is both snobbish and elitist insofar as it seems to be a crude attempt to poke fun of an engineering or other undergrad programs geared toward a student's chosen career choice. I am sure you had a fine education but that is no reason to denigrate mine which included coursework in medieval/rennaisance music, social cybernetics, race and the American experience taught by Gunnar Myrdal, urban planning, 20th century classical music, Serbo-Croatian literature, micro economics, among others or denigrate the education of my students who have interests far more diverse than you can probably imagine in that closed mind of yours.</p>
<p>Even thoug I am "only" an engineering grad and suspect I could hold my own in a debate with you on many subjects far removed from engineering. I do not know what is on your night stand by I recently finished The Templars(Reade), Collected Long Poems(Carruth), This Earth of Mankind(Toer), Morality and Contemporary Warfare(Johnson) and Beyond Belief(Pagels). Currently in my cue are Ulysses(doing it this time) and Collapse(Diamond).</p>
<p>Thank you for pushing my buttons. I do get a bit agitated when my students are put down.</p>