Professional vs. Non-Professional Degrees

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<p>Today at lunch I was talking to my dad about majoring in something relating to business and he told me that I should get a professional degree rather than a non-professional degree. When I asked him to explain he said that a non-professional degree would be something like marketing and a professional degree would be something like medicine or law.</p>

<p>However, I don’t really see the sense in this because you can be a business professional and be in marketing or advertising. My Dad said that people won’t take you seriously without one of these <em>professional</em> degrees. </p>

<p>Any opinions?</p>

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<p>You need to go to graduate school to get a Law or Medicine degree. Certain schools have pre-law and pre-med tracks, but to be honest, your dad is mistaken. Business degrees are pre-professional degrees, and its widely accepted that even if you were to major in something like econ, you can still do well in the business world: in the end I think its all about the person.</p>