<p>I am attending a community college that ranks among the top in the country, I am also in their designated honors business program. My question is, what AA degree is best for admission to undergraduate business schools? I applied for an Accounting AA, but found out that it is designated for professional experience only. Should I go for a general studies, transfer studies, management or something else?</p>
<p>-- Basically, what are the best AA's for undergraduate business school transfers?</p>
<p>It doesn’t really matter. An associates degree is an associates degree. When you complete an associates…you aren’t really getting an associates “in” a certain field. You’re just getting either an AA, AS or AAS. You pick a major, and that is basically just your concentration. Majoring in business while getting your associates doesn’t give you a degree in business though, so to speak.</p>
<p>If you want to transfer into a business program, you should major in business.</p>
<p>Associates degrees are granted in specific fields for people that usually aren’t intending to transfer. 2 year degrees in basic business management and accounting, and certain applied science fields for instance. Specified lower level nursing fields offer specified degrees. These types of programs usually have a much more basic gened curriculum too, because the people in these programs aren’t intending to transfer. The 30-40 hours of geneds that transfer students have to take is usually drastically reduced to just 15-20 hours of geneds. Generally though, a transfer student is only going to get an AA or an AS.</p>
<p>2 year degrees in a specific field are usually intended more for people that are planning on going straight into a career. Many transfer students don’t even really declare a major until after they transfer, instead choosing to get all of their geneds and lower level course work completed, instead of focusing on a major. This is why a lot of CC students that are planning on transferring try to follow something resembling a “premed” type track, because it gives them a broader range of options to choose from when they do decide to declare a major.</p>
<p>For instance, my CC offers 7 types of degrees as I recall. Associates in both science and arts, an associates in fine arts for music and art majors, associates in engineering science, associates of arts in teaching-mathematics, associates of arts in teaching-special education, and associates in applied science(nursing, criminal justice, accounting, radiology, emt etc…) If you want to go into business, or business accounting as a transfer, then you want an AA.</p>
<p>The different majors within these degrees offer different tracks in which to acquire the degree, but you’re still getting the same degree. I’m a physics major for instance, but when I transfer, I won’t be graduating from my CC with an associates in physics. I’ll just have an associates in science…and I’ll have my lower level physics and mathematics coursework completed, so I can transfer into a physics department at a university.</p>