<p>i'm interested in business, and i want to know the significance between taking pre-business and declaring a major within business courses.</p>
<p>what do you mean pre business?</p>
<p>I have heard of a pre-med, but a pre-business? hahahaha.. This is a joke right?</p>
<p>Pre-business is offered by schools, without business majors, to prepare students for MS/MBA programs by offering the necessary pre-reqs (introductory accounting, econ, etc.). However, all the credible graduate business schools are members of AACSB, which require the pre-reqs be taken at AACSB schools (waivers can be granted though). So, they're really useless programs.</p>
<p>To the OP: Major in what you want. If that's business, that's good. Of it's not business, that's good. The benefit to an undergraduate business major is the formal training, alumni support and recruitment. You can get into business and MBA programs from any major with a little hard work.</p>
<p>thank you ferryboat10 for your information. it was really helpful.</p>
<p>I should add that a pre-business program can also mean the set of prereqs taken by freshmen and sophomores at AACSB schools to qualify for admittance into the upper level business program. These will satisfy MBA prereqs. However, this set of bare bones courses (intro acct, econ, stat, calc, speech, etc.) is even less credible than a business minor.</p>