Degree prestige or "know-how"?

CBarclay15
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:10:23 +0000

I’m a freshman and I am very interested in the medium between businesses/organizations and the people/customers.

So should I get a B.A. in Public Relations and minor in Marketing, getting experience in both…

or should I get a B.B.A. in Marketing, getting the boring Finance/Accounting experience instead of PR?

In the field of marketing, you don’t normally have to deal with numbers, so I think the B.A. would give me myself better experience, but for some reason, a B.B.A. is exalted by employers…

So basically, do today’s employers look for “know-how” or the “prestige” in a degree?