Why Undergraduate Business School.

bdl108
Sun, 31 May 2009 18:39:06 +0000

Yes, even though this recession is abnormally deep in terms of the typical business cycle, I know the market’s going to get better; it’s already started to improve. I’m not an idiot. However, the financial sector’s going to be quite different in the future. The irresponsibility and relentless greed that drove us into the crisis will, through proper regulation, hopefully end.

Vinnyli: Your assertion about majors is not necessarily true. My father was a psychology major. He was never a psychologist. He was in publishing for 25 years and is now a lawyer. My mother was a public policy major. She worked in advertising. My uncle was a geology major. He’s in business. My grandfather was a physics major. He was an architect. My grandmother majored in Urban Studies. She was a school librarian. Most political science and history majors want to become lawyers, not politicians or historians, respectively. See what I’m getting at here? Most kids are so worked up about what they major in because they think it is what they MUST do for the rest of their lives. But in reality, the Bachelors degree, no matter what it’s in, is a powerful tool. So even though there might not be a typical job market for an African American Studies major, it really doesn’t matter too much. Arguing over which Bachelors degrees are better than others is pure absurdity, even though I admit I’ve done quite a bit of it in this thread.

And as I’ve said before here, I don’t believe business degrees are worthless. Just those at the undergraduate level.