<p>I have heard stories that the business school is relatively slack. Is it true?</p>
<p>Only one way to find out and that is to go to Mccombs. Whether or not the school is “slack” can vary from person to person.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t think so if it’s supposedly so hard to get accepted into!</p>
<p>My friend in engineering said that the kids in business have a much lighter work load than engineers. He seemed to be implying that it was easy. So yes, I have heard the same but take into account that he was probably biased and may have been referring to the normal business program rather than BHP.</p>
<p>Well, Business compared to Engineering is not even close…</p>
<p>Yes. </p>
<p>McCombs School of Business. Hard to get in, easy to graduate. </p>
<p>The only “hard” classes are the accounting classes. And even those are nothing compared to a typical engineering or hard science courses. It’s almost impossible to fail/get a C.</p>
<p>navyarf, I wondered when you would get to this thread. :)</p>
<p>Where did you decide to transfer to?</p>
<p>Business is a practical subject matter. I did an MBA at McCombs and while the material wasn’t rocket science, they certainly don’t mind piling it on you all at once. I can’t speak for the BBA program, but I likened my MBA to a game of Tetris. Anybody can place a falling object into the right space with enough time. Once you get a few bricks behind, you’re in trouble because the material is coming at you fast.</p>
<p>Also, the fact that the kids are smarter than your average business school student at lets say A&M, means that professors can introduce more complex finance, accounting and operations material to students earlier in the semester. In the MBA program, we were expected to know how to read financial statements and have a grasp of Just In Time inventory strategy from day one, to name a couple of the things which were expected of us.</p>
<p>This thread is making the engineering program feel suddenly intimidating. What kind of workload does someone in Engineering (namely Biomedical) have?</p>
<p>@frever: I’m not a Biomedical Engineering major (I’m Chemical Engineering), but my roommate is a BME major. During his first semester, he took many of the blow off intro classes (IE. Intro to BME, Intro to Computing, etc.) that weren’t really difficult at all and grades were based on attendance. My first semester however, I took many of the hardcore science classes/upper division calculus and a humanities (Engineering Physics I, CH 302, PHL 305, M408D, Engineering Physics Lab, and a General Engineering Course). My GPA ended up being way lower than my roommates even with the fact that I spent over 6-7 hours a day sitting in PCL studying. This semester, however, my roommate had to take all 3 sciences (Physics, Bio, and Chemistry), 2 labs, and the upper level calculus that I took first semester and let’s say he’s not doing so well. He has 2 C’s, and most of the other grades are B’s or B-'s. He’s doing the same study routine, etc. and this is with no social life/partying. So yes, UT Engineering is rigorous and intimidating and CHALLENGING.
By the way, this is for 17 Credit Hours .</p>
<p>My friends in McCombs however admit that it’s not difficult. I know a couple of girls/guys who I went to HS with, who were at the bottom of the Top 10% of our class who are BBA major and they admit that its way too easy. They have enough time to party pretty much every Thursday-Sunday night and their tests don’t require much analytical thinking. McCombs is slack and some people just don’t want to admit it because they are hard-headed and take pride in having a business degree. But think of it this way: ALOT of people are graduating college with a business major. If you think about this economically, and draw a supply/demand graph, you can see that if their is an increased supply of business majors, obviously the demand of them will go down.</p>
<p>Yah. My friend is also in Mccombs and he is literally bored to tears. He says that the work is very easy.</p>
<p>Iambored10,</p>
<p>I agree with you that McCombs is slack and some people (who I dislike) don’t admit it because they are hard-headed and think being in McCombs makes them superior to everyone else because McCombs is hard to get into. I call this McCombs superiority syndrome. </p>
<p>However, McCombs is an elite business school. Sure, the classes may not be much harder than at a lesser University, but McCombs offers a far broader range of exit opportunities due to its prestige. This is important. The demand has gone down for business majors everywhere, and I think a BBA is on its way to becoming something like a JD, almost useless. But a top tier BBA is still worth something to employers, much like a top tier JD, regardless of the fact that nothing important is really being taught.</p>
<p>rofl biomedical engineering is probably one of the hardest majors at ut frever, have fun! ;)</p>
<p>Is the BME intro to computing really that easy? I’m EE and took it with Yale Patt last semester and it was definitely the hardest class I’ve had up to now.</p>
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<p>Uh oh, I don’t think I should tell my son that! He might decide to switch to biology!</p>
<p>@athenos- Yes BME Intro to Computing is REALLY REALLY easy. It’s basically MATLAB for dummies. I Know a bunch of people who took EE 312 or EE 302 with Yale Patt and were dying and crying</p>
<p>biology is definitely easier, but bme (although it is probably the hardest engineering discipline at ut austin and in general) will give your son a great chance with medschool since it’s the preferred major, bio majors would have a harder time because there are so many and its rather bland. plus bme is very hard to get into at ut austin, congrats to your son mainelonghorn.</p>
<p>Thanks, redhotsrock! I’m really happy for him. We were surprised he got in, since he’s OOS. He had good SAT scores, but his school doesn’t rank. He’s weird and LOVES calculus and physics, so he should do OK. It’s very strange when your children are smarter than you are!</p>
<p>This isn’t really related, but hows the required english course (E 316K)?
I don’t think i got a 4 on the AP test, probably like a few pointts shy of it.</p>
<p>@Elasticity: I suggest taking E 316K at a local community college… They grade you rigorously here at UT</p>