Eero Arum sounds very sincere but he’s totally confusing the proposed bus. econ. Major with an undergraduate business Program.
The bus. econ. Major would take up roughly 1/3 of your total college credits needed to graduate (we’ll see the final number when and if they release that). The rest, of course, will be the Liberal Ed (ie Core) at about 1/3 and Electives (or flexibility to major/minor in something else) for the remaining third. Everyone agrees on that, per comments made on this thread.
An undergraduate business Program, on the other hand, takes up roughly 1/3 of your total college credits needed to graduate with Required Business Core Courses, another 1/3 with your Major (Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Info. Systems, Int’l Business, etc) and the remaining third with the university-wide Gen. Ed. required of everyone (including all the undergraduate professional schools). Note: that’s a 2/3 weighting of general and specialized Business courses. That, folks, is the difference between a Professional education and a Liberal one.
Young Eero would have a lot more cred by taking a close look at the curriculum of the country’s top undergraduate business Programs: Wharton, Ross, Haas, Kelley, Carlson, and then using that info. to assess the bus. econ. Major.
“Law schools, graduate programs, and employers broadly consider undergraduate business programs unserious and disreputable.”
- Not even sure where this comes from but yeah, that was on the posters. This person was definitely connected to those.