“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.”
That the point right- not that the major is inherently weak, but that the schools are not doing a good job. But are all History departments in all schools excellent? English Department? Do all the business department stink?
Is it better for a B student at a directional, that wants to work for the state or an insurance company to take History or Marketing? I’m not talking about Harvard here, you can major in basket weaving and get a good job out of Harvard. I’m talking about the other 1000 colleges in the US that educate a majority of students in the US. Most schools have a deep core curriculum, so you’d think students would be exposed to all this deep analytic and challenging work in their humanities courses they are required to take for core.
I guess business fall below humanities in the CC pecking order. Who knew? STEM looks down on Humanities, Humanities looks down on Business and Business looks down on what? Communications?
To bring this on topic, business seems to be a gender neutral major, so schools who include a business school bring in both sexes to that major, unlike Engineering, Comp Sci, or say Nursing.