What do Business Administartion degrees do?

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<p>Are you scared to answer the question or what?</p>

<p>If you were competent in reading you would know that I don't have a degree, just from things I've posted in this thread. Let's go back:
"I guess my marketing internship for a major college athletic department that will last until I graduate (May 2010)..." I'm graduating from college in 2010. I don't have a degree. My major is Marketing. Might even add Management just because I can and still graduate in four years because I took college courses in high school.</p>

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<p>yes, mk99, you must be proud a major in swahili is less useful compared to a business degree. If there's even such major. Sad that business major can only beat such crap major.</p>

<p>And cards4life, are you freaking serious? You want me to name you some majors that are better than business? That's obvious, but I guess your intellengece does require some baby sitting.</p>

<p>Here it is:
engineering (all), chemistry, biochemistry, biology, neuroscience, physics, astrophysics, computer science, statistics, economics, mathematics, applied mathematics, financial mathematics, psychology, acturial science, archeology, fine arts, cognitive science, geography (GIS only), english, italians, french, spanish, japanese, korean, international relations, sociology, and way more.</p>

<p>I can essential list almost every single majors in the world, they all learn at least some skill compared to business who learns nothing but "buzzwords" like SWOP analysis, 4Ps in marketing. But I can't bare to see any of you suicide, you're all 'future' of the america, or as they say.</p>

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<p>abcboy my question is if your such a highly intelligent and enlightened individual, why would you even want to work in the corporate world. i mean after working 4 years on your engineering or math degree you will probably go into the corporate world and your boss will be a business major. where's the inherent superiority in that?</p>

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<p>"your boss will be a business major."</p>

<p>How can you be so 100% sure? So when after graduation you won't work after anyone and instantly become the boss? Cool. Do they teach you that in business schools that only business majors become bosses? Thank god I don't have to learn bullcraps.</p>

<p>Chances are my boss may not even have a major or college degree, but do I look like I care? Sooner or later I'll overtake the spot. There's your superiority.</p>

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<p>Think over this, seriously.</p>

<p>If you're an employer, why would you hire a business students? What do you see in them? Knowledge and experience? Do you think a business major have any of these? Knowing how a business work, great, but you're not going to be the boss. Hopefully you already know that.</p>

<p>By the way, to be the boss, you actually have to work your way up. You don't just start out as one. If you don't even have to skills to compete at the bottom, you'll never make it to the top. And being a boss does not require a business education, you learn that from experience and it's not an knowledge that you can learn from college.</p>

<p>That's why MBA are made for people in their late 20s or early 30s, who're ready to incoporate their experience, and are getting ready for the next big jump to managers and executives or what not. Not for kids who barely pass puberty.</p>

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<p>we don't do anything. we sit on our ass and get paid and laid.</p>

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<p>I didn't ask for you to name majors better than business. I asked what degree you have? Or if you don't have one, what's your major?</p>

<p>I have no interest in the majors you listed, except biology. My brother is in engineering and has no problem towards business. A lot of my friends are in the majors you listed and have no problem with business. I started college as an Athletic Training major. Switched to business because I lost almost all interest in what I was doing. If I had even a remote interest in the majors you listed, I'd consider them. </p>

<p>Guess what I'm going to study for my MBA? Sports Marketing. It probably kills you to see a specialization of a business program.</p>

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<p>My degree is 9,10,11th majors on that list I've listed. Hopefully you can still count. Why would you need to ask for my major when we're discussing the usefullessness of business majors? Want to get personal or something? I don't know, I don't guess, but sure makes people wonder.</p>

<p>Seriously, think over what I just said. If you like to spend4 years of your life studying common sense, it's doesnt hurt me. It's your life. I'm just here talking, you don't have to listen, but you sure does get a little defensive and I wonder why.</p>

<p>Sports Marketing. No offense but a person with a community college degree in psychology or fine arts probably has a better chance of landing a job in such sector than you.</p>

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<p>Why am i asking what your major is? Because you brought it up. "For someone with a more useful degree, i'm not sure if it's even necessary..." I was simply asking what that "more useful" degree was.</p>

<p>and what the hell is that BS at the bottom of your post supposed to mean? a CC degree is more likely to land a job in sports marketing than a four year? Or are you saying that a CC degree has a better chance than just me? you don't know ***** about me and what i can do with my life. almost every internship i researched and career i looked at just for ideas requires a four year degree (completed or in progress) in (gasp!) marketing or sports marketing. alot of internships/jobs in the field won't even give you a second look without the marketing background. how can you be so f-ing negative about something you don't study. Statistics, Economics, Mathematics? I could just as easily major in those as I can business. But I have no interest in them. Took college stats and calc (2 years) and AP Econ while in high school. A's in all of them. </p>

<p>I have my interests, you have yours. The difference? I don't go around bashing people in your majors (or any major) or posting negative sarcastic comments about their choice of study.</p>

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<p>Again, your life, buddy.</p>

<p>If I want to hire who can give me loads of ideas, creative, and understand what people thinks and what they want, I most certainly wouldn't hire you. What have you learn to give me such skills? The 4 Ps in marketing... nah.</p>

<p>Also, nobody will hire snobs who think study business are the king, and they'll over-take jobs from people who're more of an expert in the field. Stop thinking business leads you to everything, it leads to nothing, you're short in every field because you have no skills in no field. Get it? Good, It's for your own good, believe it or not.</p>

<p>Btw, I'm sure you can major in economics/stats/math. Oh ya, aren't you doing it. business economics, Pratical statistics for business and mangement, Calculus for business. Boy, those courses must be really hard. What is meaning of spanning space, function space and subspace mean again? Also prove their existance. Oh, you didn't learn that. My bad.</p>

<p>Maybe you should start thinking why nobody people hire you, instead of go mouthing of people speaking of the truth. Take a look at the course materials would be a good start. Take a step back and think logically.</p>

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<p>So you think that just because I study business that I'm a snob who thinks I'll take a job away from someone who is an expert in that field? I don't believe business leads you to everything. I'm not in business to work as an engineer. I'm not in it to be a psychologist. I'm not in it to be a doctor. I'm in it to work in business. </p>

<p>Direct qoute from you from a thread I was reading earlier today: "As all my 'smart' business majors friends tell me, you can do anything with a business degree.</p>

<p>If you want to be a businessman, study business. If you want to be a designer, study business. If you want to be an engineer, study business."</p>

<p>First, surprised you're even friends with someone in a business major considering your negative attitude. I'm sure they enjoy being told they'll never amount to anything life and that they're in a useless major. Second, good job on stereotyping. If I wanted to be a designer, I'd study design. If I wanted to be an engineer, I'd study engineering. Do you really think a degree in Psychology or Biology will get preference for a sports marketing job over my degree? I hope you're joking if you do.</p>

<p>And regarding the classes, they were Micro- and Macro-economics, which at every university I know of, is required for Econ majors, so the same level class you took. Statistics? One course was business statistics, another was Theory and Probability of Statistics. Calculus? I wasn't aware that 200-level courses in Calc 2 (jr year of HS) and 300-level DifEQ (sr year of HS) were considered easy. </p>

<p>I can't even reply to your last part because I don't understand "...why nobody people hire you..." I'm guessing it's supposed to be "...why nobody will hire you..." and on that note, all I have to say is I'm already hired. One typical part-time college job, the other an internship that requires 20 hours/week in the office and working every home sporting event. </p>

<p>But you're right, it is my life. And damn it I'm happy with my life.</p>

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<p>Well, good for you. I guess not everyone's a genius afterall. </p>

<p>I don't have time for 1 idiot. So now stop stalking me and asking me stupid question, or I'll not able to stop myself from lecturing your stupid butt again. Read what I say, and if you still don't get it, just move on, aight?</p>

<p>You can do whatever I want and I can do whatever I want.</p>

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<p>hey, thats good that business majors don't do anything. i'd rather do nothing and get paid decently than actually have to work for my money.</p>

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<p>abcboy,
This anti-business crap is really going too far. Let me guess, you're probably still in college or just recently graduated right? Down the line, once you have a family and progress through your career and life, you're going to look back at all this and laugh. You're not going to believe you brought up all this crap...I certainly hope. </p>

<p>Why? Because you would have realized at that point in your life that most of what you mentioned on these threads long long ago was extremely trivial and miniscule in nature compared to other things in life, whether it be your career or life in general...again..I certainly hope. </p>

<p>Now a word of advice for now...try to find a date or get laid or something.</p>

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<p>Hi,
A person with a BA in Business Administration can persue any career he chooses, provided that he's well prepared for that particular area(e.g. Investment Banking) ahead of time. As long as your grades are strong, and you took advantage of the internship opportunities and developed your leadership skills through extraciricular activities, you should be fine in whatever career you go into. </p>

<p>Also, networking through your school's alumni network is very important in the industry you want to enter. Make sure you arrange to speak with them about your interest. They are a wealth of information, which would definately put you ahead of the competition during the job interviewing process. </p>

<p>Also,
You should get the Princeton Review "Top 50 Internships" and the "Vault Job Database" guide to get the inside scoop of the jobs that interest you.</p>

<p>I hope this helps in your quest.</p>

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<p>A person with a BA in Business Administration can persue any career he chooses</p>

<p>One is always free to do just that. However, there's a difference between pursuing and being qualified for. ;)</p>

<p>The fact is, a BA/BS/BBA works as a signaling device that you are: competent; trainable; have the ability to work towards some goal. As many of you have likely been told,seen, whatever, very few people wind up in the areas of their major in their career. The reality is that there are few jobs where you learn the relevant skills necessary to that position in college. Afterall, that is not what college is meant for. Last I knew, those were called trade schools.</p>

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<p>Can I..have good grades in Biz major, then transfer to Law or something?</p>

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<p>Yoo hoo
I've heard that Engineering can go into investing and law because engineering is prestigious.. how about business administration?</p>

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<p>If you want to say business majors are useless, must as well include every major. They all teach something that will be rather useless to our future lives...that is, unless you go into academics. There certainly is a reason for on the job training and separate units withing every respective line of work. You will end up specializing in something and that specialization "knowledge" will come from on hand work. Law school is supposed to teach you how to think....so is your undegrad degree, but every major influences your perception and certain abilities for that thinking</p>

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<p>Question, Liberal Arts major vs Business Major (even a specialized one like Accounting).</p>

<p>Will Biz majors have a good chance at Law school?</p>