<p>Hello my friends i live in dominican republic but i´m planning to go to USA either to make a master degree or working overthere. I´d like to know how effective is a BBA degreee in order to be a global corporation´s top executive. I can complement it with anything else regrading the business field. Please tell me i would like to know where this degree can get me to or if you know any story of a top executive whose undergraduate degree is a BBA.</p>
<p>Well there are a lot of people in upper management with BBA’s, but I will have you know that BBA is a degree name not a major of study. For example I have a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Information Systems. A BBA is like a BS or a BA. You generally choose a concentration of business. Some schools do still offer a BS in Business Administration, but these schools are becoming rare these days.</p>
<p>Depends on where the degree is from. A top school will give you access to any job, a lesser school will give you more limited options.</p>
<p>This reminds me of the most commonly asked question when I would attend “career day” at the local high school: “What degree do I need to be CEO of [insert Fortune 500 Company’s Name Here]?”</p>
<p>The answer: there is no answer. A degree doesn’t make you successful, it just puts you in a certain position. A Harvard MBA doesn’t make someone successful - I know plenty that make less than the average plumber. What a Harvard MBA does do is introduce you to certain people (other Harvard MBA’s) who have a high probability of being successful and then helping you in your career. But once the program has put you in a certain position (to meet the “right people”), it’s up to you to make it work.</p>
<p>That’s why you can find executives with BBA’s, BS Engineering, BA Psychology, BA Art History, and some with no degrees at all.</p>
<p>If there was a sure fire way to become a CEO, it would’ve been over-exploited by now and there’s no chance for you to take advantage of such an opportunity.</p>
<p>I have a friend who has a degree from <em>insert top university name</em> and some pretty good connections, and he thinks he will rise to become the CEO in 20 years time. Needless to say, he’s an idiot.</p>
<p>What a top school does that’s important is two things:</p>
<p>-Give you access to an elite first job. Employers offering the best jobs will show up on campus to interview you;</p>
<p>-The aforementioned network you’ll have available to you of fellow students and alums who are disproportionately in elite jobs.</p>
<p>hockfan86, are you currently in the workforce? if so, how are you liking it? Im a first yr student thinking to major in Information Systems Management at UMD, and was just wondering how the job prospects are. Please reply. Thanks</p>
<p>charliet301, I am actually pursuing a grad degree in Software Engineering. However, I had multiple offers for jobs upon completion of my undergrad. The outlook for MIS is wonderful, and do not let anybody else tell you differently. Some people will try to say that computer science is whats needed, but that is not the case. Though some CS and MIS jobs overlap, most employers need both majors for different jobs. The jobs I was offered with an MIS were entry level IT management jobs and some junior developer jobs. DBA jobs are easier to come by with an MIS as well. The most important thing to look at is what classes makes up your MIS degree. MY school had 16 credits required in CS so we got our programming foundation done early and then we applied that to business in our upper level classes. Let me know if you have any other questions. Thank you.</p>
<p>thanks for the reply hockfan86. I will probably major in MIS and maybe minor in CS, to fulfill my interest in the business side and some topics covered in CS. Thanks again.</p>
<p>Sounds good, let me know what you decide.</p>