<p>business pays about the same and its a lot easier.</p>
<p>I guess if you really have a passion for engineering…</p>
<p>Still why put yourself through hell for four years only to make the same as the business major?</p>
<p>business pays about the same and its a lot easier.</p>
<p>I guess if you really have a passion for engineering…</p>
<p>Still why put yourself through hell for four years only to make the same as the business major?</p>
<p>buisness major doesnt make as much. The engineer has more room for growth, more options, and and much better starting salary. Many engineers get MBA after a while so they can move up in the company</p>
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<p>both mid-level positions</p>
<p>the salaries look pretty dang close to me bro…</p>
<p>Because Engineers are usually a certain type of person: very Type A, incredibly left-brain. But I would agree that most people end up combining the two and getting into start-ups.</p>
<p>cooldudemanus you just picked two jobs. The you probably picked the lowest paying engineering major and the highest paying buisness job. </p>
<p>Also in buisness you almost have to get your MBA or else you are worthless. Engineers do not need a grad school to get a job.</p>
<p>Why?..because</p>
<p>1) For most engineering jobs, well I can only speak for software engineering, you are not competing against 1,000 others for the same job.</p>
<p>2) The first question out of some engineering recruiter’s mouth is NOT “what engineering school did you attend?”…unlike the “b-school” question, business majors have to deal with.</p>
<p>3) There is no 1st, 2nd, 3rd round of interviews. I usually just e-mail a resume and rarely have more than one interview round for a job.</p>
<p>4) Recruiters are calling and e-mailing YOU everyday to pull you from your current employer.</p>
<p>Those are MY reasons.</p>
<p>Being a business major does not directly result in becoming a CPA. Most states require prospective CPA’s to have 150 credit hours of college coursework, which amounts to 5 years instead of 4 for engineering.</p>
<p>Median salaries of accountants and engineers:
[Accountants</a> and Auditors](<a href=“http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos001.htm#earnings]Accountants”>http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos001.htm#earnings)
[url=<a href=“http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm#earnings]Engineers[/url”>http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm#earnings]Engineers[/url</a>]</p>
<p>There is a difference.</p>
<p>Also business is boring.</p>
<p>4 years of hell and then start making money when you’re like 23 years old. IMO I prefer that. =p</p>
<p>You’ll find that many business leaders have an engineering background. It’s tough to manage a technology company without understanding the product or service.</p>
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If you like business, do business.
If you like science, do science.
If you like engineering, do engineering.
If you like reading, do English and literature.
If you like music, do music.
If you like fashion design, do fashion design.
If you like facebooking, do facebooking all day.
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<p>If pays is what matters to you, business major do not always make as much as an engineer.
Some of my relatives are bankers and they do make 250k - 300k per year. There is room for more.
But not that many people can make that.</p>
<p>Engineering on the hands, your salary is higher than most jobs out day. I am talking about the kind of jobs that most business majors will end up with.</p>
<p>If you want more salary, either you enter finance, or you are the CEO of the company, then you need years of experience to make the same salary as a junior or even senior engineer. </p>
<p>If you happen work for a good company like my brother-in-law does, he makes $50k per year. But for the past 6 months he has been making an extra $25k for his overtime. He gets paid for going out for lunch too.</p>
<p>So he is actually making a lot more than an entry engineer. But he has to work overtime though.
Maybe down the road he will make $100k without overtime.
But from what I read, average entry engineers do make $60k - $70k.</p>
<p>Is business really an easy major? Hell no, my friend. You read a lot and write a lot. Not that many can write a good business plan. I definitely can’t.
You need to be very keen to be a successful business graduate. Beyond the coursework, you still have to find internship like everyone else. Beyond the coursework, you need to improve yourself by learning other stuff.
A lot of business major today learn programming to bolster their values. Some eventually go to a different route - MS in finance, or even engineering.</p>
<p>IMO, getting a technical degree as undergraduate, and move on with MS in business isn’t a bad route at all, if you want to start ur own company, or work in the management.
Whichever interest you and motivate you, go with it.</p>
<p>In engineering, however, you don’t absolute need to be the smartest one. Everyone preach about “creativity”. After speaking to so many engineers and upperclassmen in the past year, most of them said either that comes from experience, or you are just a geek of creativity. In another words, you can still get paid well without being the smartest one, and just do the right thing.</p>
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<p>From these numbers, it seems like you’re more likely to start at a 50k+ job with an engineering degree than you are a business degree with a lower ceiling. With a BA or BS in Business (Administration) you have the opportunity, although a rare one, to go on to be a CEO, CFO or some other type of high paid officer. But I feel that having an undergrad degree in eng and an MBA would make you just as competitive (maybe more?) than a person with an UG business degree and an MBA.</p>
<p>Personally, I find business pretty boring. Also, having gone to a uni with a large business school, business seems to be more about personality and connections than intelligence. Not that you don’t have to be intelligent to be in business, I just feel that engineering requires more problem solving and unique solutions than business does.</p>
<p>As a former busines smajor, I think I can chime in.</p>
<p>First off, business is much more broad than engineering so business majors make more and less than engineers. Business incldues everything from accountants (the most common), but it also includes smaller specialities, like investment banking, actuaries, and financial analysts. While engineering gnerally starts off igher than business, engineering has a lower salary ceiling than business.</p>
<p>I think most people choose majors and career paths based upon interests, talents, and such, and not just about how easy it will be and how much money they will make (which frankly seems like a ridiculous mistake).</p>
<p>The people who refer to an engineering education as “four years of hell” switch to business by the end of the first year.</p>
<p>if youre in it JUST to make money, it doesnt matter if it’s business or engineering…you shouldnt be in either</p>
<p>anybody who posts this kind of stuff is basically gloating to feel better about themselves</p>
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<p>Sure, the average engineering salary is going to cap at a lower level than the top business salaries, but the average engineering salary cap is higher than the average business salary cap.</p>
<p>I fail to see how business is more broad either. Name a position that business majors can hold that engineers cannot that isn’t named accountant. I bet when you finish listing those, I can think of more of them that engineers can hold that business majors cannot.</p>
<p>Business is a fine field to go into, but it doesn’t really have any major advantages or disadvantages over engineering, to be honest. If you want to be making huge money, you have to get at least a little bit lucky no matter what you majored in.</p>
<p>LOL, Aggie10, you’re right! I had two friends who switched out of engineering after their first year. One went into nursing, and the other into pre-law. My nursing friend went back to medical school at the age of 30 and now works in an Indian reservation hospital in Oklahoma.</p>
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<p>Good point. Engineers can and frequently do get MBAs (about a 1/3 of the class of top schools have eng backgrounds), but bus majors can’t readily acquire engineering skills and knowledge. </p>
<p>As a b-school professor, I think, with the exception of a few specializations, an undergrad in business is a really dumb idea. I do not know any business school professors (and I personally know many 100) that would encourage their kids to get a bachelors in a business school.</p>
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<p>An Engineering major or Math major has a better chance of becoming an actuary than a Business major.</p>