<p>Interesting article: "Skating through B-School"
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/education/edlife/edl-17business-t.html?_r=1&hp%5B/url%5D">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/education/edlife/edl-17business-t.html?_r=1&hp</a></p>
<p>Very interesting read–thanks for posting.</p>
<p>Despite all those people saying that they would never hire a business major. My friends who majored in business have had much better post-graduate outcomes than my friends in the humanities and sciences, except for those in health-related sciences.</p>
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<p>Quote from article:</p>
<p>“Brand-name programs — the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business, and a few dozen others — are full of students pulling 70-hour weeks, if only to impress the elite finance and consulting firms they aspire to join. But get much below BusinessWeek’s top 50, and you’ll hear pervasive anxiety about student apathy, especially in “soft” fields like management and marketing, which account for the majority of business majors.”</p>
<p>This seems to be most relevant to schools outside the top 50.</p>
<p>This article does not bring anything to light. Marketing and management have always been seen as easy majors and many average state school business majors have always been considered easy academic environments that require little work.</p>
<p>At least here at BC, my business classes have been some of my toughest. Thus, I can see personally the item quoted by hkem coming to fruition.</p>