The most useless business major???

College Majors Business Major
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<p>Hi everyone,
I just wanted to discuss with you business majors, in particular, the rankings in enrollment and definitely the most useless major to have these days.</p>

<p>For instance, in some colleges and universities, it seems that accounting major is the most popular, in terms of enrollment and job opportunities. I have met many students at my college and other universities, who have selected accounting as their major. I asked them, "why?" ,and the most common answer was "jobs" :)
not because they liked it, but because of jobs. As i think, with this kind of attitude, soon there will be too many accountants and it may vastly reflect on the job market. As you may noticed, it already happend with LAWYERS, who are unable to find jobs these days, even with 8 or more years of education. I have read many posts by lawyers, who try to dissuade students to pursue this career because of the job market and low salary. When I have read some posts, they almost made me "cry".
What do you think the accounting prospects are? In my opinion, with the majority of people going into accounting right now - is it possible?</p>

<p>On the other hand, I have noticed that some people, including me, are turned away from some business majors, such as Entrepreneurship, Management, HR Management and Marketing. It just seems that you just can not do anything with these degrees, in this type of economy.
As I think, the worst (business) bachelors degree to have is Management. Some people think that if they have a degree in management, then they will automatically become a manager, but it is NOT true. Usually, in order to become a manager, a person already suppose to have some kind of management experience, or suppose to work the way up to the manager. But, do not get me wrong, a person might be hired to be a manager of a GROCERY store, after graduation, however it is not a fact either. And I also do not understand the degree in Entrepreneurship. Who may hire you? Is this degree only for those, who want to own their business, but do not want work for someone else? Unfortunately, even if they want, I don't think that they would have been hired.</p>

<p>So guys, what do you think about that? Any comments, ideas, thoughts about the topic?</p>

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<p>Same goes for Marketing. People think with a degree in Marketing that they will walk into an advertising agency and make it big. Want to know what an entry level marketing job is? Stocking vending machines.</p>

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<p>Accounting is a very good degree because it teaches you the language of business and you can use accounting experience to do anything in business that you want. This is why the situation for accounting is nowhere near as bad as it is for law.</p>

<p>The worst business majors to have are the ones that teach you vague skills that are hard to define or claim to teach a skill that really should be learned through experience. If you want to do management, OBVIOUSLY you’re not going to be a CEO right out of college with a management degree, but something like accounting or finance will open doors where you can gradually learn skills that would make you a good CEO over the years.</p>

<p>As for the above post, there are definitely good jobs for students from the top programs. Here they get the best offers after finance, accounting and MIS and a lot actually do work for advertising companies and consulting firms after college. High finance jobs only go to the top 10-20 finance programs. I think desirable marketing jobs may be the same way, but perhaps even more exclusive (the one here is ranked 3rd).</p>

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<p>I agree with the marketing</p>

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<p>What’s your major?</p>

<p>You need to learn a little more about each area of business before you determine that they are useless. There is a market for those skills. What is practical depends on your ability to visualize a future in that field. If you have no vision for yourself and plans for your future you will not succeed in any field. They ask interview questions about your future vision for a reason.</p>

<p>When I when to undergrad they didn’t have entrepreneurship. Other than my experience as an entrepreneur and business consultant, I’m not familiar with the program. It is needed and there is a demand for business consultants and generalists. Those positions happen at all levels from solo consultant to deal associate in a PE. Entrepreneurship is what VC is all about. Someone with that background is more suited to consulting than a financial analysts.</p>

<p>Marketing is a functional area in business. There is no business without marketing. Marketing is about product, placement (sales/distribution), pricing, positioning, etc. It involves the package and the sales staff. </p>

<p>HR is exactly what it sound like and it manages around 30% of the total corporate budget. Hiring, firing, productivity, benefits, etc. There is no company without people and there will be no people without a human resource effort. </p>

<p>Anyone coming out of undergrad is not experienced enough to be considered a specialist. You get on the job training for that. That is why there is a experience requirement for the mba. A degree in management is just as good as most of the business degrees unless you want to be something really specific like Actuary, CPA, financial analyst. Basically the math heavy fields that require further continued education, extra testing and most likely licensing. </p>

<p>BTW not all accountants are CPA’s. Accounting is a general field with many specialties. I would not want a tax accountant for my restaurant inventory management needs. For that i need a managerial accountant. I need a staff accountant for my financial accounting needs and a financial analyst (Finance major) for budgeting and cash management.</p>

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<p>the more quantitative/management-sy , the more useful. Accounting however, yeah just don’t…kids in India go straight from HS to train for CPA before applying for Ivy MBAs and working in the states.</p>

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<p>Tortfeasor, couldn’t you get a financial analyst job with an accounting degree?</p>

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<p>I think more like Budget Analyst, etc. </p>

<p>and Yea. </p>

<p>Finance people get accounting jobs and accounts get finance jobs all of the time. When you interview make sure you understand the department you’re interviewing for. It gets harder the further away you get from finance and accounting. They look for people with strong quantitative skills. </p>

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<p>International Business is the most broad worthless degree.</p>

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<p>Anything that’s overly broad and or doesn’t teach you a hard skill is worthless IMO. Therefore, things like International Business, any Management type of field, or Entrepreneurship are kind of pointless since they are broad, and its hard to teach someone how to be an “entrepreneur” without having some experience previously.</p>

<p>Best degrees are finance, accounting, and while lots will disagree with me, marketing although you have to really go above and beyond the traditional marketing student to stand out. Those are the big 3 functions of business, and thus the best to have, although marketing is probably the toughest to market (no pun intended) to employers.</p>

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<p>the 3 business functions are not finance, accounting, and marketing. the three major functions are marketing, finance AND accounting (as one), and operations. you guys always discount operations, and it makes up so much of what a business does. you can’t market or budget for a service or product you don’t produce. accountants will always have work, marketing guys may struggle, but operations are at the heart of any business. along with accounting, it’s probably your best bet coming out of college or grad school if you didn’t attend a top 20.</p>

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<p>rcoll90, are you talking about the operations management degree?</p>

<p>“you can’t market or budget for a service or product you don’t produce.” or you are talking about the factory workers, who produce products themselves?</p>

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<p>yes i’m talking about operations management.</p>

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<p>i was considering Marketing, now i am leaning more towards accounting</p>