<p>My understanding based on what people have posted in this forum in the past is that “the business courses a person from outside of the business school can take,” aka the “Business Foundations minor,” is not valuable, rigorous, or interesting. Does anyone have any other insight on this?
Can someone in liberal arts just take McCombs finance classes as electives?</p>
<p>Well honestly, if you are going to go ahead and say that the business foundations program is not valuable, rigorous, or intersting, I’ll go ahead and say that ANY BBA degree is not valuable, rigorous, or interesting. An undergraduate BBA is going to get you knowhere unless you also hold an MBA.</p>
<p>McCombs is a fine business school, but in the long run it still has the shortcoming that it is a business school.</p>
<p>McCombs classes are reserved only for McCombs students is what I understand, save for the Business Foundations classes. The Business Foundation courses are also not the exact same as McCombs classes, for example the ACCT classes you take in BF won’t count towards any McCombs major.</p>
<p>Someone posted earlier this year that the classes that they let Business Foundations people into aren’t real McCombs Business classes.</p>
<p>I found it.
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<p>[Undergraduate</a> Programs - The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin](<a href=“http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/udean/major/foundations/]Undergraduate”>http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/udean/major/foundations/)</p>
<p>post #25 (above) is pretty accurate. resume padder if anything.</p>
<p>theloneranger is right, UT is a great top 10 public school, but a BBA is a BBA. its good, but as i’ve heard some on this forum say…business majors are a dime a dozen.</p>
<p>(With some exceptions) one can get a job in business regardless of major. You will just need to do a lot of legwork/networking on your own. At worst, you should be able to land a business related position in an industry that is related to your major (ie if you majored in EE, then a tech company, if you majored in ChemE, perhaps something in the energy industry). At best, you could land a job in a field like consulting, where soft skills are far more important than anything learned in the classroom.</p>
<p>Regardless, it is probably going to be difficult to turn down the more lucrative engineering offers. Furthermore, many engineering jobs are business-related. My brother is a chemical engineer, and his first job was chemical sales. He did perform some lab work but most of his job dealt with customer relations and deal closing.</p>
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<p>This post is pretty much completely void of any merit.</p>