<p>:( apparently management isnt a "real" major at tech even though it's known for business as well as engineering.....
they made me feel like i was taking a really easy major and i felt bad....is this true??????</p>
<p>Screw those kids.</p>
<p>Insecure kids are always looking for a way to cut other people down.</p>
<p>i will
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<p>This is going to be a long answer to a simple question, but I think it’s worth it.</p>
<p>Will people make fun of you? Yes. I remember one time when a girl brought me home to meet her parents. The first thing her father asked was “Are you on the M-Train?” I said no, and he said, “Good. If you said yes, I wouldn’t let you date my daughter.”</p>
<p>Does the management school deserve the ridicule? No. The school is Top 25 in the country, regularly ranking ahead of Emory as the top business school in the State, and is one of the top 5 schools in the South. The major has a 90% placement rate (the second best in the university and one of the best rates among any university) with an average starting salary over $50,000. They place people in more than half of the BB banks and in all three of the MBB consulting firms. So why is it ridiculed? It’s self-inflicted (see here: [“M-Train</a>” Rap Music Video - The GTGs, GA Tech’s gtg491y and gtg562h - YouTube](<a href=“"M-Train" Rap Music Video - The GTGs, GA Tech's gtg491y and gtg562h - YouTube”>"M-Train" Rap Music Video - The GTGs, GA Tech's gtg491y and gtg562h - YouTube) ). </p>
<p>So why does the business school get a bad rap? Before 2003, Georgia Tech did not have an MBA program (thanks to 30 years of lobbying by UGA in the Board of Regents). Without an MBA program, Tech’s business school was very poorly ranked (usually around #150) but still had the high admission standards of Georgia Tech. So the students with the qualifications for Tech but interest in business went to higher ranked business schools (UNC, UVA, etc. out of state, or even UGA, Ga State in-state) and the students with the qualifications for a #150 business program couldn’t get into Tech. This meant that next to no one started at Tech as a Management major - almost 100% of management majors were engineering drop-outs. Thus, the ridicule from the non-drop outs in the engineering college.</p>
<p>Starting in 2003, Tech started offering an MBA. Within 3 years, Tech’s business school jumped UGA and within 6 years jumped Emory to break into the Top 25, leading to a match between the students that can get into Tech and those who would want to study business at Tech. So now students apply to Tech as freshman with an interest in business and Management is no longer all “engineering drop outs”. The idea of the “M-Train” is slowly dying, but for some reason Tech Management majors want to keep it alive, so it’s stuck around longer than warranted. I’m not sure why they do that.</p>
<p>The MS in MGT degree was renamed MBA. So we did have the degree…</p>
<p>Would a Latin major pick on a dance major? Could a history major tell an international affairs major that s/he was choosing the easy road? </p>
<p>Pick the major you want to study, and please pay no mind to people who think there is some pecking order of majors. Do what is right for you, and hope that those who must step on others to make themselves feel good (and justify why they are staying in a major they don’t like) grow up at some point. </p>
<p>If someone picks on your major, just smile, say, “It was so nice to meet you.” and walk away, knowing that person isn’t someone you want to spend much time with. They just made your job of sorting out who your friends will be much easier.</p>
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<p>A master’s degree was offered in Management (MSM) but it wasn’t technically an MBA and the b-school rankings organizations didn’t treat it as such. That’s why Tech was ranked so incredibly low in the b-school rankings and suddenly shot up the rankings after introducing an MBA. That’s also why Tech fought so hard in the BoR to get an MBA.</p>
<p>It’s a culture thing. Management classes will be easier than engineering classes, that’s a fact, so expect to defned yourself at any school with a strong engineering focus. But you have different interests and if you combine management and technology, that’s a strong field to get into. Don’t sweat it.</p>
<p>well i cant find a single reason to make fun of you. and i cant figure out why others will make fun either. just give them a f*** and follow your heart.</p>
<p>Anu1995 brings up a good point for discussion. Is his concern a majority of the attitude of the culture on campus?</p>
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<p>Unfortunately I think it is. But it’s more than that - management majors have a stereotype on campus: they’re not as intelligent, but they’re more fun, outgoing, better looking, and more thoroughly enjoy college life (not that any of that is true). </p>
<p>My guess is that with the increasing rankings of the business school, the stereotype would go away (like it did with Industrial Engineering). The problem is that the management majors apparently like being the cool kids on campus. They’re the ones usually pushing the stereotype (see the youtube video linked above).</p>
<p>Reasons for the stereotype:</p>
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<li>Struggling engineering majors often switch to Management</li>
<li>All the football players are Management majors, though I’m sure they dont have a concentration like accounting of finance</li>
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<p>Thanks guys- guess it’s just one of those things that kind of happens bc gt is so known for engineering… But whatever, I’ll live… Besides, why wouldn’t you want to fit the sterotypes of being cool and outgoing as some of you guys said?</p>
<p>Yeah don’t worry about being made fun of at all. There are lots of management majors on campus, and being in Atlanta makes management majors in the perfect position to get great jobs upon graduation. It’s a great program</p>
<p>And like you said, it’s definitely not bad being “cool” and “outgoing.” I’m INTA and engineering majors have said to me that INTA majors seem to be so cool haha. Management & liberal arts majors are often the leaders on campus. definitely not bad being management at tech</p>
<p>Could you delve on what it is like being an engineering major at GT. Looking at the stats from the other post, it certainly is a highly intelligent group of students, can you elaborate more on the pros and cons of this environment and what you’ve learned?</p>