<p>This has sort of been one of the biggest factors in choosing where I will attend next year. I was accepted to Georgetown, so if I went there I would probably earn a BA in International Studies or something similar. On the other hand, I got into some other schools that I would most likely study in engineering and get a BS. International studies and the sciences are my two major interests, so I would be happy with either major I would be studying. However, I would like to go on perhaps to an MBA program later but I realize that the average age of students at top MBA programs is around 27, so I would have to work for a few years. My mom worries that if I get a BA from that prestigious school that it will be of no use. My mom attended college way back and first got a BA but couldn’t find a suitable job with just a BA so she went back to college. She got her BS in engineering, got her MS at Michigan, and then found a suitable job later on. When she went to college though her tuition was practically nothing, so it didn’t really hurt her financially to go back and do everything over. However, I would hate to have so much money not go to any use. So, I guess my major concern is can I do a lot with a BA from a school like Georgetown? </p>
<p>(This is obviously taking into consideration that I will do well academically wherever I attend.)</p>
<p>Thanks for taking the time and any information will really be appreciated.</p>
<p>I think that you can go into business school coming out of pretty much anywhere. But it’d be helpful if you’d give us a sense of which other schools you’re considering besides Georgetown.</p>
<p>one suggestion … contact the placement office at Georgetown and ask them for the placement stats and listings of hiring firms for the last 2-3 years of BA grads … I think you and you mom will be pleasantly surprised by the placements of the BAs. </p>
<p>For example, the first line grunts at consulting companies (and some investment houses also) are recent BAs and BSs … they hire the smartest succesfull graduates they can find whatever their major was … and they go to top tier schools first … so lots of Hoyas!</p>
<p>advanced degrees are overrated. I’l lmake this general statement, if you cant get a good job coming out of Gtown with a BS or BA, then you might need to look at yourself. If you have a clear interest in a field that has a long history of requiring advanced degrees, then perhaps ok. </p>
<p>what would an adv degree in Intl studies get someone? There are no companies that make “intl studies” products. I would guess you use Int Stud to get a job with a company that does business internationaly. do well in college, get a job, and then see if you need an advanced degree.</p>
<p>personally, i am wary of field that require multiple degrees to get in before anyone has shown any real adult productivity. thats a tough field to get into and spend 35 years.</p>
<p>A degree in engineering will almost certainly put on a career track upon graduation while the BA in IS will most likely not. Many BA students feel over qualified and underemployed in that first entry level job. In addition a BE in engineering and MBA is a powerful combination in many companies in the manufacturing sector of the economy.</p>
<p>HOWEVER(and isnt there always a however), do not fret about that first entry level job and use it as a determining factor in your choice of college or major. This is a time to follow your heart. It might be engineering but I suspect it might be that 4 years at Georgetown. You have your entire life ahead of you and if Georgetown is the place you envision yourself attending, go for it!</p>
<p>Those top consulting and IB firms are only hiring the top students so that might be 50 out of the total graduating class. After that it is a long way down.</p>
<p>Pennypac, the tone of that post is both snobbish and elitist insofar as it seems to be a crude attempt to poke fun of an engineering or other undergrad programs geared toward a student’s chosen career choice. I am sure you had a fine education but that is no reason to denigrate mine which included coursework in medieval/rennaisance music, social cybernetics, race and the American experience taught by Gunnar Myrdal, urban planning, 20th century classical music, Serbo-Croatian literature, micro economics, among others or denigrate the education of my students who have interests far more diverse than you can probably imagine in that closed mind of yours.</p>
<p>Even thoug I am “only” an engineering grad and suspect I could hold my own in a debate with you on many subjects far removed from engineering. I do not know what is on your night stand by I recently finished The Templars(Reade), Collected Long Poems(Carruth), This Earth of Mankind(Toer), Morality and Contemporary Warfare(Johnson) and Beyond Belief(Pagels). Currently in my cue are Ulysses(doing it this time) and Collapse(Diamond).</p>
<p>Thank you for pushing my buttons. I do get a bit agitated when my students are put down.</p>