<p>You could certainly put business majors into administrative or marketing positions. You wouldn’t want them directly managing technical or engineering workers. When the inevitable technical problems occur, managers without technical or engineering backgrounds won’t have a clue as to what’s going on, and will TRY TO impose solutions that only make things worse.</p>
<p>I capitalized TRY TO because I’ve often seen teams of engineers tune-out managers who are viewed as technically incompetent.</p>
<p>I have a Masters in IE. If I would have managed projects the way I learned in the Masters program, I would have destroyed every project I was on. That’s because in school you learn clean, idealized cases. The real world is not like that. In order to learn how the real world of engineering works, you have to have hands-on, real world engineering experience.</p>