<p>Myos and blossom, if I understand you folks correctly, many US undergrad business programs are operating like trade schools and the students are functioning at what I would call grade eleven non academic level. This is quite an indictment. Why are universities graduating students like this, and why are they admitted in the first place?</p>
<p>The business programs I know are to economics as engineering is to STEM- less theoretical but with much heavier workload. Since 40% of the courses must be taken outside the school, economics tends to be the default minor, but math is also popular with the finance type. I even know two students using those courses to do a “premed” minor, one made it into med school and the other became a portfolio manager after a stint with Goldman.</p>
<p>How strong are these students? I would say they are at about the same level as the best of the economics major, but more driven of course. The strongest ones are attracted to finance, then accounting, with marketing bringing up the rear. They often find their minor bring up their GPA because they find the arts and science type “uncompetitive”. (I even joked with a family member that if she had reversed her major and minor, she would have been on the Dean’s List).</p>
<p>I think a poster mentioned that business grads are much more popular with campus recruiters. I find they are more popular with employers, period. They are certainly not paying any attention to us academic type, are they?</p>