<p>I find it offensive. I mean, when I tell someone I want to study finance and go into business, they give me a look and they think I'm some idiot who's going to be a manager at Shop Rite or something.</p>
<p>People don't understand that Finance (for example) can get you to iBanking, accounting, etc.</p>
<p>And these are the same people that think doctors get the most pay ever.</p>
<p>HaHa....You'll be laughing all the way to the bank; Who cares what they think?</p>
<p>Back in the stone age, I graduated from Wharton with an MBA, and entered the ibanking field....To this day, my mother-in-law thought I was a bank teller.....</p>
<p>I don't care, but it gets really annoying. This is an example...</p>
<p>Me and my family are at a family friend's house and all of our family friend's who have kids are doing pre-med. (I'm 16 BTW)</p>
<p>So they say that her son is doing pre-med and majoring in Bio and I was saying how I want to double major in Finance/Economics and work for an iBanking firm and hopefully get my MBA.</p>
<p>She says and I quote "That's nice...but even with low grades, you can still go to med school, just do good on the MCATS. You don't need to get a business degree."</p>
<p>I was like ***. I wanted to punch her in the throat.</p>
<p>Lol, when random adults ask me my major I tell them I dropped out. When my fellow students ask I tell them to go f*** themselves. The conversation immediately ends awkwardly after you tell them, no matter what your major is, so it doesn't really matter.</p>
<p>LOL. I think that's a good idea.</p>
<p>Business is a different beast. To be successful in business requires skills other than educational/analytical skill. It requires people skills. Without a doubt business majors are some of the easiest (as far as course work is concerned.) However, they aren't anything to laugh at. Finance, Accounting, MIS majors have salaries that rival any other industry.</p>
<p>its because most people (in college) choose business as their major because they don't know what to do in life</p>
<p>I could agree with that, especially business administration. I wouldn't say the same about finance, mis, or accounting majors.</p>
<p>agreed, bus admin and bus management ppl major in just because it sounds general and decent
no idea why u would want to major in that, you'd probably learn more aspects about businesses in accounting tbh, plus the job outlook on those aren't great</p>
<p>Haha..yea, if you ask them what their major is they say business. ask them what they want to do after college, they'll say business.</p>
<p>And the whole "Go do pre-med and business on the side"</p>
<p>It's like "last time I checked I didn't know you could be an investment banker working 100 hours a week 'on the side'"</p>
<p>Like most liberal arts majors are that hard. History, psychology, sociology, French, hardly. The toughest thing about bio is the chemistry.</p>
<p>What I can't stand is comm majors. The entire discipline is fluff.</p>
<p>Don't forget leisure studies. My school actually has that.</p>
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Like most liberal arts majors are that hard. History, psychology, sociology, French, hardly. The toughest thing about bio is the chemistry.
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All five of the majors you listed are significantly more difficult than a general business administration program if your goal is to get a passing grade and perform within the middle 50%. The amount of reading and writing is order of magnitudes larger for all those majors but chemistry, and chemistry, sociology and depending on the concentration of psychology even psychology involve more math than plenty of business administration courses. To be fair, if this was Europe, sociology would be the hardest of all of them--but sociology in America is overly qualitative, and most of its more useful aspects have been hijacked by economics, anthropology and criminology.</p>
<p>Business administration students don't get respect because: (a) people think the business students are mercenary and arrogant (a small minority are, it makes the rest look bad unfortunately), (b) it can be a little like history in that there are people who care about history but it's a catch-all for a lot of people who don't know what else to do, (c) plenty of people don't know how the business world or even the world in general works (business majors included) and the mass confusion and lack of preparation for post-college life by everyone leads to people thinking business students are too "worried" (I hear this a lot).</p>
<p>As with anything else, it's best to major at what you excel in and what you enjoy. If you're excellent you'll be alright financially (unless you are just completely ignorant of how to interview, prepare a resume or interact in a working environment), and if you enjoy a subject you'll be likely to continue your studies in it which will lead to consistent excellence.</p>
<p>I'm in an accelerated management/law program combined with law school. After 3 years at my school, I am going to a top law school. Please do not say management is a joke..... I do not know how it is taught in other schools, but my program is very challenging...</p>
<p>NDjake: The issue is that, arguably with the exception of CMU and MIT, business programs are incredibly weak in their core required courses--and plenty of people can dance around anything difficult in their choice of electives. What you get from school is what you want to get from it, and plenty of people want things served to them. More than any other major the general business administration major seems to be the weakest of the most common majors in the actual workload it requires, with the exception of highly quantitative programs.</p>
<p>I have no doubt that you, and plenty of other intelligent people, are taking the difficult courses and the most relevant courses (which are generally one in the same)--but the perception exists for a reason. Looking purely at required courses, almost every other non-science major has a significant amount more reading and writing, and any other applied science major has either much more math or lab work.</p>
<p>I'm confused by the point of this thread. I'm a Finance major, and I have never heard anything "negative" about my major. What kind of people do you hang out with??</p>
<p>Most of the top schools I know have certain required classes so you have a broad based education. For example, I am required to take classes like Computer Science, Biology, and so on.... I have to take many analytical classes as well. Our program is management and technology with concentrations in various areas such as Finance. It is a real unique education. Are you talking about tier 3 schools? In most good schools, business is not regarded as the easy way out. Although I do see what you are talking about.</p>
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<p>Accounting is way harder than any of those.</p>
<p>Also at my school for biz admin they need a B- average in their pre-requisites or they have to pick another major. The middle 50% get C's, so that doesn't cut it.</p>