<p>At Grove City College, the students refer to engineering as “pre-business.”</p>
<p>At Purdue, business was what you majored in when you couldn’t hack engineering.</p>
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<p>Yeah I know it’s a pretty crazy idea</p>
<p>It’s done somewhat frequently at my school. Or at least, it’s joked about, then people realize that half the undergrads here are trying to get into the business school, and it isn’t as easy as they thought.</p>
<p>Also, anyone seen those bumper stickers that have the limit of engineering as your gpa->zero is business? I just thought those were clever.</p>
<p>I remember that as a t-shirt… I chortled</p>
<p>a business major is definitely much easier to pull off, but i would argue that the top business jobs are more challenging and stimulating than the typical engineering job.</p>
<p>I would argue the top jobs in field X are more challenging and stimulating than the typical jobs in field Y.</p>
<p>engineering by far.</p>
<p>I believe that majoring in business is much harder than majoring in engineering – I mean, engineering students never face the challenge of keeping themselves occupied during all their spare time (reason being that they dont have any).</p>
<p>I am a bit incredulous at the sheer ignorance in this thread.</p>
<p>Trying getting a business major through Cal I-III, Linear Algebra, and Diff. Eq., then come talk to the engineering majors. I’m a physics major, and I’m taking Diff. Eq. in the fall.</p>
<p>Business is more about common sense and personality. People who have “personality” usually do well in business since it’s primarily about interpersonal relationships and so forth as well as using common sense to market, sell, etc. products. Engineering and the hard sciences are certainly technically-oriented. They simply require a larger range of ken.</p>
<p>happy workers are better workers</p>
<p>way hard</p>
<p>Is this a joke? Really is this question a joke? Business is NOTHING compared to engineering. Flame me if you want but we all know the truth. Business doesnt even consist of very subjective english classes, just memorize some random information and your through. The math you take is laughable. 1 quarter of business stats or business calc? REALLY? LOOL That stuff is easier than history. </p>
<p>Think of it this way, people get paid more for doing harder things in the world. Check how much an average business major makes, and compare that to an average engineering major. Youll be eating rats off the street most likely being a business major. Dont just look at cnn money or yahoo finance and think ull be a hotshot being a business major.</p>
<p>didn’t you even look at how old this is?</p>
<p>When our engineering grad took a business course near the end of his undergrad, remark to us was “they teach this stuff in college?!?” Felt it was a waste of time to have to take the business course as the tone was that it was pretty much common sense!!</p>
<p>Sorry, but have to agree that Engineering is far more difficult than business.</p>
<p>Paganizoda writes “Business is NOTHING compared to engineering. The math you take is laughable. 1 quarter of business stats or business calc? REALLY? LOOL That stuff is easier than history. Think of it this way, people get paid more for doing harder things in the world.”</p>
<p>Way to dig up a 2 year old thread. Of course engineering is more difficult than business. But Stats would more likely be 3 quarters and business calc 3 or more. Sorry to say you don’t get paid more for doing harder things in the world. A lot of smart people go into business precisely because they know they can earn a lot without having to bust their butts in engineering.</p>
Like boneh3ad said it depends on where your interests lie. I would also have a difficult time with probably any business class due to the lack of interest leading to a lack of motivation. With that being said it also takes a special way of thinking to be successful in engineering, which is why students tend to struggle with it. At the end of the day it really isn’t a question, Engineering is WAY harder!!!
Let me restate your first sentence: Like boneh3ad said, SIX YEARS AGO, IF ANY OF YOU ARE EVEN STILL FOLLOWING THIS LONG DEAD THREAD OR ARE EVEN STILL ALIVE, it depends on where your interests lie.