<p>Hey I’m trying to decide which program is better at each school, like employability, starting salaries, career opportunities, etc. Pros and cons for each?</p>
<p>Generally speaking, the UC system tends to focus on preparing undergraduates for grad school to a greater degree than does the CSU system. If you’re interested in going to grad school immediately following your bachelor’s degree or soon after, I would tend to recommend a UC over a CSU. That being said, CalPoly (I’m assuming SLO) is a fantastic school, it’s the just as good as any UC, and plenty of CSU alumni go on to grad school.</p>
<p>The problem with answering your question is that you’re trying to compare apples and oranges. Business Administration and Managerial Economics are very different programs. I used to work in doctoral admissions at one of the most prestigious business schools in the world, so please take what I am about to say very seriously: The statistics and/or anecdotes you’re asking for are practically meaningless to you as an individual student. If you were comparing very different schools offering the same major, then the statistics might be worth thinking about, but you’re not. You’re comparing very similar schools in many respects, but fairly different majors which are best described as secondary strengths at those schools. Which is to say, both are strong programs, but outside of the school’s primary focus (engineering and bio/ag, respectively).</p>
<p>The most important thing for you to learn about is the difference between the programs in terms of curriculum and focus. Not in terms of salary, employability, prestige, or anything like that, but in terms of what you will be spending the next four years of your life studying. Find someone who teaches or works in one or the other field and ask them to explain to you the difference between Managerial Economics and Business Administration. (If you can find a dozen of these people to ask, fantastic!) Go to the web sites for these two specific programs and read everything they have that describes their programs. Look up specific course lists and degree requirements to get an idea of what actual classes you might be taking; if you can’t find these on the school web sites, make a phone call or send an email to the department that offers that major to request the information.</p>
<p>What you need to find out is not which program is better, but which program is best for you. That’s the problem with asking other people about apples and oranges, because everyone has their opinions and maybe it’s a fact that 70% of people enjoy apples but only 60% of people enjoy oranges. Well, what happens if you use that statistic to decide to spend the next 4 years of your life eating apples, only to find out that you hate them? Also, you’re paying tens of thousands of dollars for these apples, and in order to try eating oranges instead, you have to go through a long, stressful transfer application process, and they will only let you transfer if you did pretty well at eating apples. But you hated eating apples, so you probably don’t have 4.0 GPA in eating apples.</p>
<p>So instead of asking which is better, apples or oranges (Man. Econ. or Business Admin.), you need to be doing some research to find out what each of these programs is actually all about. And although you can get some information by searching the internet, the best sources of information for you are #1: concrete information about these two specific programs (e.g. degree requirements and course catalogs), and #2: advice from teachers and professionals working in business and in economics. </p>
<p>The most general thing I can tell you is that business administration/management programs tend to focus on applying practical knowledge in specific cases, while economics programs may focus on developing or applying theoretical knowledge in broader contexts and outside of the business world. (Which fits in very nicely with the mission of CSU to provide more practical, career-oriented study and the mission of UC to provide more theoretical, grad school-oriented study.)</p>
<p>anyone got more info on these two majors?</p>