Majority?
That’s not what I’ve found IME or from HR practices who in practice treat most undergrad business majors with the exception of accounting* no differently and sometimes like a few firms I worked for…with more skepticism than the Arts & Sciences majors. Incidentally, if one firm I worked for had a choice of an Econ/Arts & Sciences major vs undergrad business except from the very elite tier of undergrad b-schools, they’d overwhelmingly choose the former as they were burned too many times by past hires from the latter group.
The lack of academic rigor in most undergrad b-schools/majors was also reported and discussed in the NYTimes article I linked above which was from 2011 so not too long ago.
- Usually only if the student has a CPA in hand or is well on his/her way to completing the 150 hour requirement to take the CPA exam.
And that’s not including the fact that one can become a CPA without an undergrad major in accounting. Have one friend who majored in Asian Lit at an Ivy and another friend who majored in Philosophy who managed to get their CPAs and are now successful accountants for several years. Asian-lit major friend was hired straight out of undergrad by one of the big-4 and sponsored to attend accounting grad courses so she could sit for her CPA exam and the other friend did it on his own while working an entry-level corporate office job in another area.