<p>Business Administration, definitely. I’ve seen people do pretty much everything with them…</p>
<p>Industrial engineering sounds like the most marketable major to me. It’s basically an engineering degree focusing on business.</p>
<p>Culinary Arts
I have never met an unemployed cook; however, they start out with very low salary.</p>
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<p>I think we can assume the information is more useful in a masters program, then.</p>
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Who employs finance people? Finance companies</p>
<p>What do finance companies do? Manage the money people give them</p>
<p>Why do people give them money? Because depositing money for interest is a better investment than leaving your cash sitting around the house</p>
<p>What does the finance company do with that money? Loan it out for interest to people that need money.</p>
<p>Why do those people need money? Because they want to grow their company betting on future earnings, they want to move into a new house, or they want to buy goods they don’t have the money for now but will soon be able to pay for</p>
<p>What would happen if these people didn’t get that money? They wouldn’t do the things they otherwise plan</p>
<p>How can we get rid of the finance companies? If nobody deposited money and/or nobody took out credit, they would have no business</p>
<p>Will that happen soon? Probably not</p>
<p>Why not? Because depositing cash is generally a better use of money than not depositing cash, and as long as one eventually pays back debts, credit can be very useful in improving businesses or quality of life.</p>
<p>So are the finance companies good? Clearly not unambiguously, but they are in many ways the basis of the modern economic system, so getting rid of them would certainly change more than just corruption.</p>
<p>yes, not everyone in the finance world is greedy or unethical. I do agree that a lot of bright people that otherwise could have done something more contributive to society go into finance/banking because of the money, although that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Wanting to become financially succesful is perfectly fine. </p>
<p>Smart/hard working people want to be compensated for their abilities. Stuff like teaching, nursing, etc. don’t do it for them.</p>
<p>Is Marketing…marketable?</p>
<p>^You might learn how to make it so.</p>
<p>How marketable is philosophy, enlightened ones?</p>
<p>How philosophical is marketing?</p>
<p>“How marketable is philosophy, enlightened ones?”</p>
<p>None.</p>
<p>Apparently Philosophy PHDs can get jobs at think tanks, and that sounds like it’d be a really cool job.</p>
<p>Unless you’re going to a specific trade, the value of a college degree is not in the first years after college. Especially in this economy, you are likely to get a mediocre job doing something for about as much pay as a high school student, perhaps even the same job.</p>
<p>What is valuable is that you have graduated from college, which means you are reasonably intelligent/hard-working. Depending on your major, you might be able to say “I know how to do something technical (math, phys, econ)” or “I know how to communicate effectively” (english/communications) or “I know how to think. (philosophy)”</p>
<p>Of course if you go into engineering, nursing, or accounting, this isn’t the case. But otherwise, yeah.</p>
<p>^lastchancexi, I’ve heard something like that before from my wise Econs teacher in high school.</p>
<p>Something like, your degree paper is evidence of your willingness and ability to work hard for 4 years. So when you enter the job, you’ll have the proven ability (by your degree cert) to study about that job (on the job training).</p>
<p>So your specific classes like “Psychology of Religion” has no actual value to your corporate, secular employer.</p>
<p>I remember being in conversations on this site about how it doesn’t matter what your major is - if you’re smart and you go to a great school you can get a great job even if you’re a basket-weaving major. I met someone recently and her son got a great job right out of college. I asked what his major was and she said, “It didn’t matter what his major was - it was his internship that counted”. It turns out that his internship and job were with his father’s corporation. So now I’m sceptical again.</p>
<p>Does it make sense that in this job market a company would rather hire someone who has proven that they’re smart and self-sacrificing by finishing a degree in philosophy than someone who has the same grades from the same caliber of school and a degree in finance which has taught them things that they’ll actually be able to use on day one at the job?</p>
<p>^^^
If you want a good paying job out of undergrad, yes it does matter. If you go on to graduate school for your professional training, then no.</p>
<p>Do a search on monster and take a look at job requirements. They always say, related major.
Maybe you can get the job without having the exact major, but it’s going to be more challenging.</p>
<p>Imaging your a recruiter for a company that gets 100’s of resumes a day for the same job. Now imagine if you where trying to find the best candidate for your job opening. Which resumes would you put in the review pile vs. the discard pile. At least this has been my experience what I’ve heard especially during tough times.</p>
<p>It would be nice if a recruiter would chime in. </p>
<p>So unless your daddy owns the company, or you have strong networks within the company, I’d do what I can to improve my chances.</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p>It’s not that Finance won’t be a lot better than Philosophy, right out of undergrad. It’s that most liberal arts majors are pretty fungible, and it’s that relevant work experience will easily trump what major you take. That is probably my biggest mistake in undergrad. Don’t underestimate the value of work experience, especially in this economy. It’s worth a lot, even if your GPA’s going to take a hit. (A LOT). </p>
<p>In this job market, it doesn’t matter what your major is (unless it is engineering or nursing or something very pre-professional and very in demand), you need to stand out. And the easiest way I know how to stand out is to have work experience. That and network. </p>
<p>I’m not saying that Finance isn’t better than Philosophy for getting a job, especially right out of UG. I’m saying that the difference is easily made up if the Finance major doesn’t have an internship or a network and the Philosophy major does.</p>
<p>I think accounting is an extremely marketable major, especially if you pursue the CPA. Not only can you work in public accounting but you can also attain jobs in any other areas of business</p>
<p>how marketable is physics, in terms of getting jobs in finance/engineering?</p>
<p>^[Science</a> Home Page](<a href=“http://bls.gov/k12/science.htm]Science”>http://bls.gov/k12/science.htm)</p>
<p>“how marketable is physics, in terms of getting jobs in finance/engineering?”</p>
<p>I’m told Physics PHDs are highly demanded for Quant jobs. Other than that, I don’t really know. It’s probably akin to getting a Math or Engineering degree for finance. </p>
<p>If you want to do Engineering though, I don’t see why you wouldn’t get an Engineering degree.</p>