<p>Hi College Confidential, I have a perplexing dilemma I'd like to share with you all.</p>
<p>Some things about me:
-Freshman in BA Communications major at UH Manoa
-Interested in Public Relations, but my school does not offer a bachelor degree in PR (did not get awarded enough fin.aid/merit aid to justify my reasons to go out-of-state, and no other schools here offer PR as a major)
-Communications major does offer a concentration in PR, but there are only like 2 actual PR classes</p>
<p>The thing with me right now is that I've been looking at the majors UH offers and am curious whether or not a BA in TIM (Travel Industry Management) would be better instead. I was never looked into doing tourism-related work, but the TIM school at UHM is much more advanced/funded than the School of Social Sciences and I can tell there will be many internships offered in that department, knowing that department is run much better and I'm in Hawaii, a tourism-run economy. TIM also covers communication and dives into (aka. requires classes in) Business and Economics as well, so I can tell by the start a TIM degree would be more. Overall TIM seems much more well-rounded and close-knit as a community, but I hear that TIM is a rare degree so getting jobs would be much harder, especially outside of tourism-jobs. I've even heard some people say that the most you can be with a TIM degree is like a tour-guide, hotel-clerk, or bellboy.</p>
<p>I also am currently planning to apply to USC for graduate school in either PR or another Communications sector after getting my bachelors. This could always change however.</p>
<p>P.S. To those telling me to just major in business, I'm not really too interested in business, and I plan to double major in Theatre which is basically impossible. Business at my school is extremely difficult to double in, unless doubling with another Business major.</p>
<p>P.S.S. Travel Industry Management at my school has 2 focuses, one on Hotel and Resort Management, and one in Tourism and Transportation Management.</p>
<p>Thank you CC!!</p>