Usefulness of Business Degree

terenc
Thu, 03 May 2012 03:21:15 +0000

In the future, I would really like to get into entrepreneurship, such as working at a really small startup or starting up my own company. However, this path may or may not pan out for a variety of reasons. In that case, I would really like to do management consulting, possibly going to business school after that (with an eye towards working in tech).

I am definitely going to major in computer science at UC Berkeley. Would also majoring in business at Haas help with succeeding in entrepreneurship or help with getting into consulting?

If I didn’t major in business, I would add more classes (but not a major) in other areas that interest me, like philosophy, psychology, English, etc.
Personally I feel like it’s going to be marginally useful for entrepreneurship, and that I can still get into consulting with a CS degree and good extracurriculars.
My concern is whether any core business skills (like accounting, strategy, marketing) are going to be applicable to tech entrepreneurship (I can probably take a few entrepreneurship classes).

As an aside, my other college choice (a little late now) was Brown. Would going there have altered any of this situation? I chose Berkeley over Brown because I thought Berkeley might give me a better shot at tech entrepreneurship, even though Brown is decent in CS and even though I liked how Brown is better for consulting and allowed non-majors to take “business”/finance classes (something not entirely true for Haas).

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