What is wrong with a management degree?

Tortfeasor
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:51:49 +0000

Management degrees aren’t about managing people. They are about business management. They are generalists degrees designed for people who are already in the work force and feel they need a little extra in order to move up in their company. It is a generalists degree meant to review all of the functional areas of business management and then some.

Any degree is worthless if you don’t know why you’re taking it and what to do once you have it. Some schools do not have full business departments and only offer the management degree. All business degrees have a business core similar to the management degrees. So if you pick a functional major like marketing you will also learn the same thing as people with management but your focus and electives will be in marketing.

I recommend you Major in accounting or finance. There is no business degree that teaches you how to manage people. That’s called leadership. It’s what separates the executive officers from common managers, and managers from workers. You get that from experience and on the job training.