Which Business/Econ Major At Your School Seems To Be The Most "Intellectual"

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<p>At your school, how would you rank the majors in terms of which major has the highest number of smart people?</p>

<p>At my school, it seems to go like this:

  1. Finance (full of extremely competitive people who want to get on Wall Street)
  2. Accounting (people seem less competitive but it’s still not a complete fluff major)
  3. Econ (It’s more mathematical but is below the others because a lot of people do econ if they don’t get into the business school)
  4. ISOM (More technical, but it’s still not that quantitative at my school. Seems more like CS-lite)
  5. Sports Biz/Entrepreneurship/Marketing (Nuff said).</p>

<p>This thread is just for fun, so don’t get offended because there are smart and dumb people in every major. I’m just wondering what you guys think.</p>

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<p>I think you are wrong.</p>

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<p>haha I dunno. I could be, but that was my impression from the people I met.</p>

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<p>For most business programs, the order of toughness, in my opinion, is as follows:</p>

<ol>
<li>Actuary Studies: Sometimes only offered in math department and not the business school.</li>
</ol>

<p>2.Either Quantitative Finance or Accounting.
4. Economics
5. Computer Information Systems.
6. International Business, although this might be a tough major depending on the school.
7.Marketing
8.Management
9. Business Administration
10. Travel and Tourism</p>

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<ol>
<li>Actuarial Science</li>
</ol>

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<ol>
<li>Economics</li>
<li>Finance</li>
<li>All other business</li>
</ol>

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<p>At my shcool, all business majors get a BBA so there is no “business administration” people, but there are people with a “bachelor in business administration in finance”. Speaking of which, it’s strange that taxguy left out finance and accounting, which are the main ones to me.</p>

<p>The ones that seem most “intellectual” are as follows:

  1. Accounting - A lot of people say they want to do accounting until they have their first class in it, then they go for finance
  2. Finance - They’re generally a pretty savvy bunch
  3. Marketing - Not the most academic, but we have a really good program here, and they are actually really creative
  4. Management - They seem pretty sharp, but not like they know what they want to do with their degree
  5. Economics - Every economics major at my university that I’ve talked to would rather be in business if they could get in.</p>

<p>There are Supply Chain/ISOM/ERB majors here, too, but I only know a couple of each at most, so I’m not going to include them because my view would be skewed due to the small sample of each.</p>

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<p>^^^ That is a little closer to my experience.</p>

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<p>OPenskittles, I didn’t leave out either finance or accounting. Check out item 2 in post 4</p>

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<p>Oh, sorry, I just was just looking for where you put them and skimmed right over quantitative.</p>