<p>I just got into college this year and have a management degree i want to minor in accounting/finance but slightly tied between the two which do you guys think would be the best fit. I want to have my own business someday and thats why management degree is what i choose to go with from the begining because i got my AA from a jr college and just want to finish up what i started with. Why do some people think management, marketing is such a bad degree??</p>
<p>You can teach someone a lot about accounting in school, you can’t teach them much about actually managing people. Regardless of what you feel about that, if your school is anything like mine management majors tend to get paid the least of all majors(my school is generally around 55k for accounting, supply chain, MIS, finance, and 35k for management. Marketing is like 45k but that’s less reliable since I don’t know how that statistic factors in sales commissions for those marketing majors that get those.</p>
<p>management is a bs degree. you will not manage people when you graduate, nor will powerpoint slides teach you how</p>
<p>Management degrees aren’t about managing people. They are about business management. They are generalists degrees designed for people who are already in the work force and feel they need a little extra in order to move up in their company. It is a generalists degree meant to review all of the functional areas of business management and then some. </p>
<p>Any degree is worthless if you don’t know why you’re taking it and what to do once you have it. Some schools do not have full business departments and only offer the management degree. All business degrees have a business core similar to the management degrees. So if you pick a functional major like marketing you will also learn the same thing as people with management but your focus and electives will be in marketing.</p>
<p>I recommend you Major in accounting or finance. There is no business degree that teaches you how to manage people. That’s called leadership. It’s what separates the executive officers from common managers, and managers from workers. You get that from experience and on the job training.</p>
<p>and what is wrong with a degree in marketing?</p>
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Then that’s an even better reason not to get that degree. As an undergrad you probably won’t be in the “work force” and if you do internships you most likely will not stay with one company every year.</p>
<p>If your school doesn’t have other aspects of business and only management, I would do econ :/</p>
<p>^That doesn’t make sense.</p>
<p>There are many undergrads “in the workforce”. A lot of people don’t go straight to college. A lot of people who go straight to college pay for college by working. There are more students “in the work” force than there are not. I was not talking about internships. </p>
<p>Internships are ways to enter the workforce and explore possible careers. Internships often lead to people switching majors. That is because they are a part of the education process. </p>
<p>What I stated is not a reason to not take that degree track. It is one of many reasons why it is taken. There are no blanket solutions for everyone, and not everyone wants to work in a BB IB. </p>
<p>Econ will not teach you how to run a business. If you do that, you might as well major in English. It’s just as necessary, and you will finish knowing just as little about business management. I am absolutely not saying that your major limits your career options for those CC readers who are easily confused.</p>
<p>So I want to take a double major which is better accounting or finance</p>
<p>Okay, I may not be the brightest guy on these boards, and I may not get big 4 interviews, or attend prestigious schools and get internships with investment banks, but I do have something called common sense. And I find this to be ridiculous and I feel like I need to step in and undo all the wrong that has been told to you in this thread.<br>
I agree with the following by Tortfeasor:
"Management degrees aren’t about managing people. They are about business management. They are generalists degrees designed for people who are already in the work force and feel they need a little extra in order to move up in their company. It is a generalists degree meant to review all of the functional areas of business management and then some. </p>
<p>Any degree is worthless if you don’t know why you’re taking it and what to do once you have it. Some schools do not have full business departments and only offer the management degree. All business degrees have a business core similar to the management degrees. So if you pick a functional major like marketing you will also learn the same thing as people with management but your focus and electives will be in marketing."</p>
<p>But first of all, you need to take your general business classes and see what you are interested in. Management is pretty much a social science, like psychology. I highly recommend you double major in management and something else depending on your interests. Just because you are a management major does not mean you will end up being a waiter at some restaurant. It depends on what initiatives you take during your college career.</p>
<p>If someone told you to that being an art major would get you into investment banking, would you do it? LOL.
Ridiculous.</p>
<p>Like taxguy said, ACCOUNTING/FINANCE IS NOT FOR EVERYONE. AND EVERYONE SHOULD NOT BE ACCOUNTING/FINANCE MAJORS.
That’s why there are so many other options at business schools. Countless other majors.</p>
<p>As you progress through your college career, your experiences will shape your thinking thus it will influence your career choices.</p>
<p>It simply boils down to what kind of career you want right now. Your answer to that question?</p>
<p>This board proves how weak minded some people are and cannot think for themselves just because someone tells you that finance/accounting are your only “good options” and that’s what you do? Whatever.</p>
<p>And honestly, if you are really thinking about either finance/accounting, have you had a back up plan to decide what you would do if you don’t find either of them suitable for you?</p>
<p>You also don’t need a degree to manage your own business.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with the search button? I’m sure this has been discussed ad nauseam.</p>