<p>The best would be to work while getting his Med. School pre-reqs. Best program or not, Marketing is a skill developed during WORKING, academics is just NOT ENOUGH. Now, is he really interested in Marketing or it is just another thing to read about and take tests. Frankly, Marketing was one of the most boring things to read about in Business school, but I was never interested in any Business aspects besides Information Systems. One needs to be very clear when going to Business, what is the interest, what is the purpose and what is your strength. I loved to write Computer Programs and knowledge of Business in general is a must since most programming jobs are in business. Do you see how clear my thinking was? This is for reference. Your frined must be absolutely clear about the reasons for spending ton of time, money, other resources when you are 24. Wasting of precious resources might end up in complete frustration at the end.</p>
<p>Itjust occurred to me that MD/PhD (and especially MSTP) programs would be a perfect match for any “perpetual” student type. They are 8 years long and many are free + living stipend. Would not MSTP be a perfect match to OP’s friend?</p>
<p>@MiamiDAP</p>
<p>1) I personally am an information science major and am aiming to become a programmer? Why is business knowledge a must when writing these programs?</p>
<p>2)Yeah I will tell my friend about these combined programs. That’s a really good idea.</p>
<p>“1) I personally am an information science major and am aiming to become a programmer? Why is business knowledge a must when writing these programs?”
-As I said, most programming is done for buisness. To design you need to figure out the requirements. You cannot communicate effectively to the system users in your organization and to customers of your organization without business backgraound. Of course, you can learn on your jub. But if business want to hire you without any business background it is another story.</p>
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<p>hahahaha. I mean, theoretically this is a great match, but OP’s friend sounds like he has a snowball’s chance in hell of getting admitted to one.</p>
<p>@MiamiDAP</p>
<p>I don’t really know who to believe on this one anymore. For instance, my computer programming teacher actually told me that companies didn’t really care if you knew the business lingo or not. He told me that it would actually be more beneficial to major in information science than information systems. He told me that information science would give me more in-depth training in programming which would benefit me more. He also said that what programming companies were really looking for were knowledge in more than one programming language (especially C# and Java), the knowledge of HTML, and the knowledge of how to use SQL and other data bases.</p>
<p>You will have to learn technical things at every job. I have had 9 jobs and had to learn at each. While business environment was also very different because of variety of industries that I have worked, stepping into the programmer’s shoes and not being able to talk to your users and even customers (currently, I am dealing a lot with the biggest customers that you can imagine globally also, yes, Europe is included) will be a negative. How you will figure out what needs to be done. You will have to learn “how” at every place. Believe me, there are still operational systems written in COBOL. I do not think that they teach it at schools any more. Once you know one language, you can and you will learn others at work.<br>
It might depend on your future job. You might end up in other than business environment. You might even work off others’ specs. It jsut did not happened to me, I needed to be able to talk to business people,</p>