<p>Is it accounting, finance, or marketing? Also which one makes the most money?</p>
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<p>Impossible questions to answer. How hard a major is will vary by schools, by courses selected, by profs, and by what your natural talents are. If you’re numerically challenged, you’ll find finance or accounting hard; if numbers come easy to you, you’ll find them much easier. Most successful marketers are creative people who can also deal with analytical concepts. </p>
<p>As far as who makes the most money, what you do with a degree is far more important than what that degree is in (to forestall predictable and fruitless outrage, I’m talking about differences within broad categories, not between them). </p>
<p>And I’d seriously consider not majoring in business at all. Successful businesspeople are those who can think through and solve hard problems and who can deal with shades of gray and ambiguity. Most undergrad business courses teach basic skills and don’t really develop those more intellectually intense abilities.</p>
<p>I have two business degrees and 35 years of business experience. Were I starting over, I’d get my undergrad degree in a discipline that develops the mind, like philosophy, literature, a social or physical science, or math. I’d take a couple of electives, in accounting, basic marketing, and business law. Then after a couple of years working in business, I’d enroll part time in an executive MBA program, ideally on my employer’s dime. </p>
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<p>This.</p>
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<p>Thank you for your views on this…anyone else have any advice or anyone who has an answer to this question?</p>
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<p>I concur w/annasdad. I majored in Econ – which was fine – and I almost dbl majored in History. In hindsight, I would have majored in History (which I love) and still taken the same career path.</p>
<p>OP: If you think one major versus another will lead to more or less success and/or money in the business world — then your understanding of the real business world is less than adequate and rather immature.</p>
<p>Everyone wants to make a lot of money…</p>
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<p>/applaud annasdad I have been preaching this my whole college career!</p>
<p>To answer which one is the hardest… within the context of same school, many would say accounting. Take a look at USC (Marshall), for example, it seems like their accounting major has more hoops to jump than others. Which one makes more money? I called a plumber to fix my garden water faucets the other day. He charged me $320 for little more than an hour work. I am sure he didn’t major in accounting or finance or marketing ;)</p>
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<p>Sounds good. But the mind is not frozen dead after college.</p>
<p>Right - but the business undergrad I did required 60 credits of general education, most of which I had completed at a LAC as a prospective history major before transferring to the small university where I did my coursework in business and received my degree. Of the 60 credits in business subjects, the only ones that proved really useful to me in my business career were two semesters of accounting, one semester of basic marketing, and a semester of business law. Some of the other courses were kind of interesting (money and banking stands out) but not especially useful. I took a business policy course, but since I had at the time no experience in business, it didn’t make much impact. The business policy course I took in my MBA program was more rigorous, and since by that time I had 8 years of business experience, was much more relevant.</p>
<p>Statistics seemed to be the hardest major back when I was in school and it used to fall under business majors. </p>
<p>I have a general business degree and a marketing degree and I found them not very useful. </p>
<p>Accounting seems to be the most reliable degree over time.</p>
<p>Ok that’s what I figured. Plus there is a high demand for accountants in the business world.</p>
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<p>But before you make an irrevocable decision to major in accounting … take some courses and make sure you LIKE accounting work (many people don’t, many do). I don’t care how much money there is in it, if you wind up doing something you hate 40+ hours a week for 35-40 years, you’re going to have a miserable life. And especially because there are so many possible careers that there’s bound to be one you’d love.</p>
<p>Rofl ^ I think everyone agrees with that. Don’t want to wind up with something you hate and noose wrapped around your neck.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m taking accounting as a senior as well as intro to business course, and I will see what I like before I major in what I want in college</p>
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<p>Everybody may agree with it, but I know too many people who fall into the trap. Both parents of one of my D’s friends were attorneys, and both detested the work. The father finally had a nervous breakdown and it was strongly suggested by this doctors to find another line of work. The mother is still doing it, making tons of money working for clients she detests, and hating every minute of it. She’d like to quit but they can’t support their lifestyle on what she could make doing anything else. (The dad has another job making a fraction of what he made as an attorney.) They’ve told their son they will support him in any career he wants to pursue - except one, and guess what it is?</p>
<p>(This is not a screed against attorneys or becoming an attorney!)</p>