<p>Canuckguy: the situation is very different in Canada though.
In the US, you have basically two situations: excellent programs where the students essentially take the same core as the liberal arts students PLUS a business major (these programs typically have extensive writing and quantitative requirements), and those are well-considered; and the great majority of business majors, in which the core requirements are different from the liberal arts students, the readings lighter, the research papers shorter or non-existent, the academic demands lower, with lots of group work which ends up with a B because it met basic expectations – those expectations are hard to formulate so they fluctuate wildly depending on the university and the student body. </p>