<p>I'm currently 25, since I took a few years off from college due to a family situation. I returned to UMass Boston (a non-ranked university) for over 1.5 years now.</p>
<p>It's time to declare a concentration between accounting and the "new" supply chain management degree that they recently opened up. I would prefer not to be stuck doing accounting but the economy is scaring the daylights out of me.</p>
<p>My question is this, would the supply chain degree allow me to get a good entry level job?</p>
<p>Or would it be worthless considering that its new at my university and that the degree comes from an unranked state school?</p>
<p>I won't graduate until I'm 27. Nonetheless, I want to start my career and hit the job market immediately upon graduation (if that's even realistic).</p>
<p>If anybody can offer some advice I would gladly appreciate it.</p>
<p>Right now, at my school, SCM is getting as many offers as Finance. Finance being #1 for years and years now. Acct, of course pays just as much but the sheer numbers of grads and offers is never even close. </p>
<p>In terms of pay:
MIS
Acct, Finance, SCM
Mgmt, Mktg</p>
<p>In terms of jobs and offers:
Finance, SCM
Mgmt, Mktg
MIS, Acct (even though placement is probably closest to 100% with these two)</p>
<p>That’s good to hear, but what university are you attending, and how long has the SCM program been offered over there?</p>
<p>I agree that accounting seems to be the safe bet here given that it matters less on which college you went to (in terms of getting a job).</p>
<p>It’s good to know that SCM is in demand, but my main concern is on whether UMass Boston’s new degree would have enough weight considering that we’re not even ranked. At least to the point where it doesn’t matter which college I graduate from to land an entry-level job with SCM.</p>
<p>Further thoughts would be appreciated from anybody.</p>
<p>Just to update, I’ve talked with the professors and the advisers and nobody can give me an accurate outlook at where graduates are headed. It still comes down to the SCM being a new major at UMass Boston with no track record to speak of yet.</p>
<p>Still a coin toss at this point. Any ideas?</p>
<p>Does your school have an Industrial and Systems Engineering program? If so and it is well established, it may do a better job of placing graduates into SCM positions.</p>
<p>I go to Texas A&M, the business program is ranked in the high 20s but our SCM program isn’t individually. Around here, SCM grads are gobbled up by energy and retail companies though. A big part of that is our location close to Houston…</p>
<p>No, our college does not have Industrial and Systems Engineering program to my knowledge.</p>
<p>Yeah, A&M would make a difference especially with SCM.</p>
<p>Just to throw another point in there, I actually found out yesterday that I got accepted into Bentley as a transfer student. ROI doesn’t look right to me but hey, it’s still a personal victory on my end whether I go or not.</p>
<p>Hard decisions. If not for being 25 and the recession hitting the job market for the past few years, I feel that the answer would’ve been much more straight forward. Nonetheless, I do appreciate the responses.</p>