I find the inclusion of business as a major which is better academically and “more marketable” to be amusing unless the undergrad business schools one is focused on are at the very elite tier like Wharton, NYU-Stern, UMich-Ross, UVA-McIntire. Berkeley-Haas, etc.
Most of the rest of the undergrad business schools/majors were regarded by my extended family relatives* and a few former employers** in the same way as this NYTimes article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/education/edlife/edl-17business-t.html?_r=0
- With the exception of the very elite tier of undergrad b-schools, they regarded the undergrad business major as one only to be suggested to HS seniors in our family whose academic records and demonstrated interests show one who isn't intellectually inclined or serious about school. It was one step above suggesting they find a job out of HS/enlist in the armed forces.
** One financial firm I worked for had a policy of not hiring undergrad b-school majors unless they were from the very elite tier of undergrad b-schools like the ones named above after getting burned by too many past b-school graduates from lower-tiered programs who demonstrated serious issues with written communication and basic arithmetic/math skills which caused embarrassment with senior executives and clients. On the other hand, the Arts & Sciences majors from the very same institutions weren’t regarded with this degree of skepticism by that firm’s senior hiring managers.