<p>If someone graduates from a 4-year university (College A) with a major in economics, lets say they want to go back to school and get a 2nd Bachelor's degree from a different university. If they apply to, get accepted, and submit their transcript from their previous school to their potential/current school, (let's say they want to major in Accounting or Finance), will the credits from their previous degree be allowed to count towards their 2nd degree with a different major at the 2nd school? Or is this just a dumb question where the answer is: of course, people go back to school and get 2nd bachelor degrees all the time?</p>
<p>I will only say I looked into two BS-Accounting programs as a 2nd Bachelors and both told me that all my general education classes and free electives would basically be waived and I would only need to complete the requirements for the major. This was regardless of whether or not the gen eds from my degree program were similar to theirs. Any courses required for the new major which I completed in my prior degree would also transfer, but for me this was only a macroeconomics class though.</p>
<p>The main part of my question is as follows: For the Economics degree that I would already hold, part of the curriculum for example was the 2 Intro Accounting courses Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting, along with several other Business/Finance courses. Will those Accounting courses that I already took that counted towards my 1st degree be able to count towards my 2nd degree which is in a somewhat similar subject, because that would mean I have most of the electives and some concentration work already completed, so I would just start on probably Intermediate Accounting I. Does that sound correct? So I would only have the Accounting coursework left to complete for my 2nd degree and the only thing I would have to take into consideration is schools usually require that 50% of the major’s concentration requirements be taken at that particular school if you completed previous coursework at another school.</p>
<p>Sounds correct but you obviously have to verify with the specific school you are applying to. Don’t worry, you will be completing well over 50% of the major still since what you have taken is just a drop in the bucket.</p>
<p>Let’s say you graduate from a good/average school with a specific major (economics or management), and you decide you want to go back and get a 2nd degree but at a University that has better rankings. Is it possible or unheard of to get a 2nd bachelor’s degree with the same major, just at a better ranking school?</p>
<p>Also, is the following correct that the Business Administration major is different than a “Management” major or concentration: Management vs. Administration</p>
<pre><code>Business administration basically focuses on preparing students for the decision making roles within an organization, and Business management focus is on management aspects:improving communication, productivity, effectiveness and efficiency and aligning resources, basically, implementing the decisions made by administrators.
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<p>A 2nd Bachelors seems to be frowned upon in general but I am doing it anyway for my own reasons. That said, a 2nd Bachelors in the same major would probably be unheard of and probably not possible. If even accepted you would be repeating courses you already took because you would be required to at least take 30 credits at the new college. To even consider that due to college ranking tells me you are placing too much emphasis on ranking, and I can’t even imagine the red flags and raised eyebrows you would get when employers saw that on your resume. You would not get points for sound judgement, that is certain.</p>
<p>As for the differences in concentrations, I wouldn’t know.</p>
<p>talking about “Sound Judgement”, what about employers who hire people who have DUI’s or DWI’s on their record, but they have good academic records…do you think that is acceptable? or should people with good/exceptional grades with a DUI be put below candidates with good/above average grades and credentials who do not have previous/recent DUIs and charges?</p>