<p>From my internet research, I always read the same comment... Business is such a broad degree it's useless... But how exactly does that make it useless? Shouldn't a broad degree in turn be more profitable to a company? Since after all, you do know "more"?</p>
<p>And please no comment saying a major is only a useless as the person who holds it. By useless I mean strictly towards society, job availability, etc.</p>
<p>1) Most people who study business in college have a major or a specialty such as accounting, finance, IT, marketing etc. which makes it a pretty targeted degree rather than a “broad degree”. In general every business degree has a business core requirement (ex. one or two classes in disciplines such as accounting, finance, IT, economics, management, business law etc.) so in the end you should graduate from a business school with a broad business background as well as an in depth knowledge of one area.</p>
<p>2) Any broad based degree (ex. a general business degree or perhaps a management degree) would have the issue that you will probably know a little bit about many areas but you won’t have in-depth knowledge of any one discipline. IMO companies want people that have a combination of the broad business core with more of that in depth of knowledge of an area. Some business degrees are among the most marketable majors (ex. accounting, IT, finance).</p>
<p>I think the issue is that everyone has a business program but not all business programs are created or viewed equally in the real world.</p>
<p>Some places just throw a program together and slap a Business School label on it then sell it to the unsuspecting masses. You graduate then realize you can’t get a job because nobody respects the piece of paper in your hand that says you graduated from this or that program.</p>