<p>I'm currently a high school senior enrolling at MIT next year. I still haven't quite narrowed down what it is that I want to major in. I am seriously considering Management, but then I've heard that undergraduate management is looked down upon. Would majoring in management be a waste of an MIT education? Would a management major hurt my chances of being recruited for a job my senior year?</p>
<p>Also, at CPW a lady at the Careers Office said that it was possible to do a double major in management and engineering and not take additional courses. Is this true?</p>
<p>Management would not be a waste of an MIT education. It's true that non-management MIT students tend to have a snarky attitude toward management majors ("Sloanies"), but this is just because we all like to believe that working far too hard is the highest virtue, and Sloanies "don't have to work too hard" (which may or may not be true).</p>
<p>As for getting jobs, people who major in management at MIT tend to get very plum jobs after graduation, since the school of management is one of the top-rated ones in the country. (Management majors often make more than graduates in other departments, which is probably one of the reasons that non-management majors resent them.)</p>
<p>It might be possible to double in management and engineering without taking additional courses, but I think you would have to work it out to really tell for sure. You need 270 units beyond the GIRs to double. If you end up taking 270 units in the course of taking Sloan classes and engineering classes, then you don't have to take any more. (Although I have a friend who's doubling in 6 and 15, and she's taking 5+ classes a term, so I assume that there are quite a few requirements to be fulfilled.)</p>
<p>of course it isnt bad, especially if it's a top ten program.</p>
<p>and besides, although MIT is an engineering power house i'd be very careful not to pursue it unless you're really interested, because that program might just chew one up and spit one out.</p>
<p>but the top business school programs are very good to earn degrees in, very good to get jobs, and although not as hard as say pre-med, it isnt easy.</p>