<p>I was planning on majoring in Engineering but I've heard conflicting reports of people majoring in business and coming out with nothing to do or coming out and making a lot of money. Which do you think its?</p>
<p>I’m sure both are true.</p>
<p>I think you should do something you are passionate about, not what will make the most money or have the best job prospects.</p>
<p>I think that is not a good strategy today. UW Foster has a poor placement office so they don’t provide any data. But most get good jobs in the area. Accting students in demand.</p>
<p>I want to bump up this thread cause while accounting is a good option. What happens to Business: Finance Majors or Econ majors?</p>
<p>You’re making this a numbers game in regards to money, which really isn’t an advisable choice. Consider that you’re going to be spending the next 4/5/6 years pursuing a major that in for all odds will be your career path (not for all people, however), and what good is a career when you hate the job that it entitles. I don’t have half a pubescent hair of an idea whether your passion is business or mathematics/engineering/technology/medicine/philosphy/bread basket weaving whatever. Just be sure that you enjoy it.</p>
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<p>In what sense is the placement office poor? Can you elaborate on how effective Foster is at job placement?</p>
<p>Well while business would be interesting, so would computer science. And stability is also an important factor. </p>
<p>It’s just that you hear so many people saying that they do business because it’s easy, but what actual JOB comes out of it? Like business manager/logistics/product review?</p>
<p>Foster’s greatest strength is accounting. All other programs are decent, but very very few graduates have shots at lucrative positions (think investment banking, trading, etc.).</p>
<p>By concentration:</p>
<p>Accounting: Foster’s strength, and accordingly leads to career stability. Competitive though.
Finance: A decently structured curriculum, but lacks quantitative rigor.
International Business: Highly ranked, but it’s a BS concentration at any school.
Marketing: Questionable. An average marketing student is toast in a down market.
Entrepreneurship: BS concentration. No class can teach good business sense.
Information Systems: You’re better off doing compsci, even though it IS a good, growing sector.
Operations Management: You’re better off studying hardcore operations research through math.</p>
<p>Btw, I go to Carnegie Mellon but I considered Foster as a preadmit.</p>
<p>And to actually be relevant: [University</a> Of Washington: Undergraduate Profile - BusinessWeek](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>
<p>Although I suspect businessweek pulled the recruitment numbers out of nowhere, the program is only highly regarded on a regional level at best. The placement percentage is abysmal, and the salary numbers are average compared to top programs which hover around a 55k+ median salary. </p>
<p>As for WHAT graduates actually do? Since UW fails to release comprehensive reports, we can only speculate. Though based on this shoddy data and general student attitudes, middle office work if any.</p>
<p>Mm that makes sense. THanks for the reply. Yeah I was thinking of getting an engineering degree and then trying for an economics master/phd or something like that. Just going for stability and then strong interest.</p>
<p>That’s a little depressing to hear about the UW’s Foster school of business…</p>
<p>To be fair they are adding their own placement office in the near future. But it takes time to get that really established and helpful with connections. You will have a shot at most Seattle area jobs because of so many alums here but getting our from there is tougher. I work with several recent UW grads and they were pretty much on their own for finding jobs.</p>