<p>1st, nearly everyone who starts a thread asking where they should go prefaces it by saying they want to work at some internationally renowned job, not “I just want a job in North Dakota that doesn’t involves bodily fluids”.</p>
<p>2nd, if University A is ranked higher and has better job placement stats and average salary(excluding a salary bump due to being in a location with a higher cost of living), there’s going to be less bitter unemployed graduates out of that program than at University B. Just because there are happy graduates from University B and 1 guy got hired by Goldman Sachs doesn’t mean it’s out of the question to think that some of the unemployed 40% at University B would have been part of the employed 90% at University A.</p>
<p>3rd, if corporate recruiters hold the same biases regarding school quality, then it is relevant.</p>
<p>4th, as the OP notes, he is at a huge disadvantage compared to top schools when it comes to things like Econ and Finance. School matters more for those types of jobs. Most people that post on this board will tell people that for things like Accounting, MIS, Supply Chain Management, rank matters a lot less and that if you want a job with XYZ company, you are better off figuring out where they recruit and going there.</p>
<p>" Ha so because I dont want to be crunching numbers and balancing budgets for the rest of my life means I am dumb now? There is nothing difficult about Accounting when you compare it to majors like engineering and anything pre-med"</p>
<h1>1 I never said you were dumb.</h1>
<h1>2 If you think that’s all Accountants do you’re ignorant of the functions of business. Like I said, talk to majority of CFOs…most have backgrounds in accounting. You’re better off getting an Accounting degree if you want to go into Corporate Finance.</h1>
<h1>3 You’re a rising sophomore and have never taken a difficult accounting class but you say it’s easy.</h1>
<p>Get a high GPA, have a good internship, and you’ll get a job in your region.</p>
<p>Trying to convince majority of the people on these boards that us peons who attend lesser schools have a chance at a job is futile. From what you said UoK has great placement, so it sounds like your set. Make sure to attend career fairs EVERY year. </p>
<p>BTW. I have to hate you…YOU GUYS STOLE COACH CAL FROM US!</p>
<p>Well I think you make a good point there. At the lower schools the programs that are recruited will vary. Perhaps UoK has a strong Finance program which regional corporations recruit from. </p>
<p>Here its MIS and Accounting. When the economy was better Finance was recruited by several local investment firms.</p>
<p>I dont think Accounting, or any major for that matter, is “easy”</p>
<p>but relative to engineering and pre-med programs I would say its alot easier</p>
<p>the reason I dont want to go into accounting is that I dont believe it would be something I would enjoy however I could be wrong with this assumption as I grow older.</p>
<p>how much does grad school play into this? If I get an MBA at a good, but not great, grad school will it overshadow my BS at UK and improve my overall resume?</p>
<p>You will know what you are interested in when you take the general business classes in each field. If you think Accounting at an intro level is easy, it might be a different case at an intermediate level (maybe). But let me tell you one thing: The intro Accounting classes are considered harder than the other intro business classes. And the intermediate Accounting classes are considered weed out classes. MANY people who choose to do Accounting soon drop out of the major and switch to something else because of the intermediate Accounting classes. This is not discouragement, but just be sure you know what you are doing, and work hard at it if you still want to do it.</p>
<p>Also since you are a second year, you still have time for different experiences/interactions, etc. Your thoughts about what you want to do will change as you progress. Just work on getting a good job during undergraduate. And quit worrying about an MBA.</p>
<p>“Because a business degree by itself is completely useless. Unless you’re majoring in accounting, going to a school that isn’t in the top 20/30 is probably a waste of time.”</p>
<p>That’s a pretty bold statement to make without any facts to back it up.</p>
<p>Difficulty is somewhat relative. Remember that the real issue is how difficult is it to get grades good enough to get you your desired job. Who cares if it’s equally hard to get a 2.5 in engineering as it is to get a 3.5 in accounting if a 2.5 in engineering can get you an internship and a 3.5 in accounting won’t…</p>
<p>You could get all B-'s in your accounting classes and still have over a 3.5 no problem by acing the glut of easiness that fills your schedule as a fresh/soph business major, as well as the somewhat scaled-back easiness that fills your junior/senior schedule, sans your accounting courses. See: Low IQ/high GPA marketing majors whose transcripts are 80% the same as an accounting major. Thus, one could argue that a 2.5 in engineering is harder to attain. I would argue that the two are hard to compare and suit different ‘types’ (IQ/GPA etc.).</p>
<p>^Comparing an undergraduate programs starting salary for people just beginning their careers to MBA programs where people have been working 4-6 years is a good comparison, right?</p>
<p>That $55,000 statistic is a lie unless your school is tops. When schools list employment statistics, they list employment at any job, period. When they list salary statistics, they only include students who are employed in X type of job that’s related to the degree.</p>