<p>Getting a BBA will allow you to get a better chance at admissions to a MBA school than a Econ degree. BBA is much more respected than Econ degree. AND getting a BBA at Ross is more superior than getting a Econ at LSA (in my opinion because Ross is one of the best school that trains young business people, while Econ doesn’t totally train business as much as Ross)</p>
<p>Plus apparently GPA of accepted students to top business schools isn’t really high. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/business-school-mba/483982-average-gpa-top-business-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/business-school-mba/483982-average-gpa-top-business-schools.html</a></p>
<p>“Getting a BBA will allow you to get a better chance at admissions to a MBA school than a Econ degree. BBA is much more respected than Econ degree.”</p>
<p>Please dont say things matter-of-factly if you don’t know. </p>
<p>WRONG and WRONG.
Getting a BBA will not give you a better chance to a top MBA (or any MBA) program. This is a common misconception. MBA programs cares about your work experience, essay and academic capabilities, as well as future potential. They could care less if you majored in business as an undergrad.</p>
<p>BBA is not more respected than an Econ degree. Michigan is an exception due to the superb reputation of Ross. In fact, it is usually the opposite. BBA in many case is considered a trade/vocational trading and being looked down upon by academia. That is why most of the top institutions in the country (HYPS) dont even have an undergrad business program.</p>
<p>"AND getting a BBA at Ross is more superior than getting a Econ at LSA (in my opinion because Ross is one of the best school that trains young business people, while Econ doesn’t totally train business as much as Ross) "</p>
<p>Agree, but for the wrong reason. Ross is superior because of the reputation and overall quality. It has nothing to do with “training business”. In fact, many professors will tell you, you should not be “trained” as an undergrad, you should be given the opportunity to learn how to learn.</p>
<p>what if you’re top 2-3% of your class and has a sat of 2180? Do you think a person with these stats will be able to better survive the ross curve or the econ curve?</p>
<p>Do whatever you are better at. There’s no set rule for anyone</p>
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<p>Funny how you didn’t mention UPenn, MIT, Berkeley, NYU and Michigan which are big school in business. Last time I checked these universities are “top”. Unless you don’t consider UM, UPenn, MIT, Berkeley, and NYU not top. Which I think you don’t consider them “top” schools. </p>
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<p>Also I’m pretty sure that like all grad schools, they like to see classes taken near a field of grad study. I highly doubt that you can simply go into business by being a undergrad art major and expect to be accepted by Harvard without learning anything on economics. Also it interests me on how when you look at programs that are similar to UM Ross’s (UPenn, MIT, Berkeley HAAS, NYU Stern, UVA) that their graduates go to great business schools. Hmm and it is even more funny how that Harvard’s MBA class profile contains 26% undergraduates with Business Administration Majors. It is especially interesting how there are only a few colleges that offers undergrad business so when you consider the fact that a quarter of the class were Business Majors and the fact that there are few business undergrad majors, it does reveal that Business Majors (BBA and equivalents) do boost your chances (other wise why would they make a degree like that? especially at top schools like UM, Berkeley, UPenn, MIT, NYU, UVA)…(Oh wait UM isn’t a top school, yeah it’s definitely not top at all…extreme sarcasm).</p>
<p>[Class</a> Profiles - MBA - Harvard Business School](<a href=“http://www.hbs.edu/mba/profiles/classprofile.html]Class”>Class Profile - MBA - Harvard Business School)</p>
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<p>Yes it is totally looked down and that is the reason why many prospective business high schoolers want to go into BBA and equivalent. Yes, that’s why UM has had a BBA program for many years (because it is looked down and they think that they should train students to be looked down upon). Many high school students (especially top students) want to apply to these programs so they can be looked down upon and some how, just some how, some of these students end up being some of the best business people alive. (Read that paragraph with extreme sarcasm)
That statement is flawed. Especially when you have a quarter of Harvard MBA class as Business Majors as undergrad (when there are only a few schools with undergrad business majors and all the other schools schools have non-business majors). Oh and that is also why UM Ross’s MBA class has also 20% of people with undergrad business majors (again to stress the fact that there are only a few schools with Business majors).
And same goes for Berkeley Haas with 22%. Oh and lets not forget UChicago, with it’s 27%
[Full-Time</a> MBA Community - University of Chicago Booth School of Business](<a href=“http://www.chicagobooth.edu/fulltime/community/stats.aspx]Full-Time”>http://www.chicagobooth.edu/fulltime/community/stats.aspx)
[Class</a> Profile - Stephen M. Ross School of Business](<a href=“U-M Weblogin - Stale Request”>U-M Weblogin - Stale Request)
[Class</a> Profile - Full-time MBA Program: Haas School](<a href=“http://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/community_02.html]Class”>http://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/community_02.html)</p>
<p>Honestly when you have this high percent of the students accepted to MBA schools with Undergraduate Business majors when there are only a few undergrad business schools (not to mention that there are only a few good ones), you should rethink that statement you made.</p>
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<p>Last time I check you “learn how to learn” in high school. Why would be trying to learn how to learn in college? Doesn’t that means you aren’t prepared to learn? I mean by the time you get to college, a key to success is knowing how you should learn, not still trying to learn how to learn. You learn how to be trained for the real world during undergrad years (if you didn’t know that a big amount of the current working generations don’t have a grad school degree).</p>
<p>“I highly doubt that you can simply go into business by being a undergrad art major and expect to be accepted by Harvard without learning anything on economics.” </p>
<p>You sure about that? </p>
<p>“Also I’m pretty sure that like all grad schools, they like to see classes taken near a field of grad study.”</p>
<p>You dont know much about MBA admissions do you? It’s WORK EXPERIENCE WORK EXPERIENCE WORK EXPERIENCE…PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE ESSAY ESSAY ESSAY… Just this line shows that you have no idea what you are talking about… and I wont even bother replying.</p>
<p>one last pointer… look up “causation vs correlation”</p>
<p>cdz, the number of students interested in business who majored in humanities is very small.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/business-school-mba/21975-mba-undergraduate-majors.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/business-school-mba/21975-mba-undergraduate-majors.html</a></p>
<p>pretty good info there</p>
<p>If you get a bba you have no reason to get and mba until if later in your life you totally switch career paths. At which time you will have enough work experience to know that what you learned in b school and probably what you will learn in mba doesnt mean much.</p>
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<p>Yeah I’m pretty sure, why don’t you try going to med school without learning anything about biology and chemistry. I don’t think you would want to go into engineering grad school when you haven’t taken physics. Taking math, statistics and economics (or other quantitative subjects) will help you get into a good B-school. So yes, I’m pretty sure that you should to know some quantitative subjects (like math, statistics and some economics) before going to business school.</p>
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<p>How is it just one work experience, professional reference, and essays? It’s pretty much saying saying that one should go into med school without taking any classes on biology, chemistry and physics. You have to learn some quantitative subjects like math and economics (and note I didn’t say you have to major in it). You can’t expect to go into business school with no background on math or statistics or economics or any thing quantitative subjects.
By the way Harvard MBA even says : “Please note that there is no minimum work experience requirement for the MBA Program.”
[View</a> Admissions Criteria - MBA - Harvard Business School](<a href=“http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/admissioncriteria.html]View”>http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/admissioncriteria.html)</p>
<p>So I think your the one that has no idea about MBA admissions. Honestly, do you believe that one can go into business school with no background on quantitative subjects? I think you believe that is so. Again that is literally the same as trying to go to med school without taking biology or chemistry.</p>
<p>wow…i hope you are joking…otherwise you really need some help… your post made me lol so hard in real life, especially this line “Honestly, do you believe that one can go into business school with no background on quantitative subjects? I think you believe that is so. Again that is literally the same as trying to go to med school without taking biology or chemistry.”</p>
<p>I think MBA schools and med schools look for different things. Med schools expect you to take at least some biology, chemistry and physics classes at the undergraduate level. If you haven’t, you don’t stand a good chance of getting in anyway. As for graduate business schools, they do not care what you majored in at the undergrad level, but they do care about what kind of work experience you have. Top schools look for solid work experience, especially in the business field - whether you get that job by majoring in business or art history, it doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>cdz is an idiot.</p>
<p>In terms of Ross vs LSA Econ, if you really want to go into business and don’t have much interest in econ (no PhD, MPA, Law School, etc.) and are only doing it as a major to go into business, switch into Ross. The career services will be better and it will help you get more/better interviews land a better job. I don’t like undergrad business, but I’ll admit it gives you better options for employment.</p>
<p>Do people ever go to graduate business school the fall after they graduate from their undergraduate education?</p>
<p>^PhD in business, yes.</p>
<p>MBA, sometimes. If you want to be most competitive for a top MBA program and want to get the most out of it, you’re better off having a few years of work experience.</p>
<p>"Do people ever go to graduate business school the fall after they graduate from their undergraduate education? "</p>
<p>Yes for crappy MBA programs. Almost unheard of for M7. Take Harvard for example where one clueless poster tried to use to prove his point, which is probably the dumbest example one could choose. There maybe one or two people in the class that directly go their from undergrad, on a good year; and those aren’t the ordinary people you think. The closest thing to direct admit from undergrad is harvard 2+2, which they guarantee you a spot in the MBA class after 2 years of working experience out of undergrad.
In fact, my dad was the only one who HBS offered admissions directly out of college at Cornell that year. He ended up enrolling at Cornell for MBA because he loved it so much.</p>
<p>and as Venkat89 said…Phd in business, sure…or what they call DBA…but it’s still really really really rare</p>
<p>cdz, I’m sorry, you are just so completely wrong. Everything bearcats said is right. You really are a ridiculous person for speaking about business school as you have been doing, because you clearly have not done close to enough research to understand the qualifications that get you into MBA programs. If you got a 3.0 in underwater basket weaving from the University of Drinking, but worked three year as an M&A analyst at Goldman and three years doing PE at KKR, you have 9999999999999999999 trillion times a better chance at getting into a top MBA program than someone who was the valedictorian at Wharton but didn’t get any substantial work experience after college. The valedictorian at Wharton has a much better shot at the career path taken by the basket weaver, but, if for some reason the situation I described actually played out, MBA admissions aren’t going to give to *****s about your undergrad education.</p>
<p>(also, I know this post is a few months after this topic died off, but I found the link to this thread from another thread, and was just astounded by cdz’s arguments that I couldn’t help but comment)</p>
<p>What more does someone who gets a PHD of business learn over an MBA? What do they research?</p>
<p>Considering Ross as well, but Econ 101 isn’t going so hot. Damn, I hate Proulx. Also, I’m thinking double major math/business (or if I get rejected from b-school, math/econ). Any opinions?</p>