Is Business the new Liberal Arts?

[CrazyKell]

Liberal Arts degees take a lot of flack.....but is Business the new Liberal Arts?

Everyone I know takes Business. They're not further ahead than the LA grads.

Anyone else noticed the shift in paradigm?

[Trip]

Business was the party degree at UT when I was there. People who couldn't hack it in engineering transferred to the Business school.

[RACER X]

don't know if its new, business is kinda catch all of all the other degree fall outs. your chances of getting a decent job are better w/ bus. deg. vs liberal arts.

i have business deg........lol , work in engineering. not related whatsoever lol

[pauldun170]

Agreed

MBA programs aren't exactly spitting out quality either.

[pauldun170]

However, I personally think some courses that fall under BA should be mandatory for all majors.

[unknownroad]

don't know if its new, business is kinda catch all of all the other degree fall outs.

Yup, was the same at my school. All the frat boys, athletic scholarships, and party girls. Couple years ago my wife got an MBA, and she said the same about her classmates. I figure now that companies don't have money to piss away, the smart ones are dropping out of the MBA>all game.

[shmike]

Yes.

[CrazyKell]

your chances of getting a decent job are better w/ bus. deg. vs liberal arts.

Maybe catch all is a better way to put it.

But I don't actually believe your chances are better with business. :idk: I think a lot of employers just want to see A degree and don't actually care too much what it is. Obviously there are going to be exceptions to that rule.

MBA is another one....everyone goes and gets one of those.

[sherri_chickie]

My husband has a business degree and he has never used it, at least I used my liberal arts degree, well maybe my liberal arts degree was just a stepping point for my Ed. Degree ( to be totally honest) and the main reason he hasn't used his business degree is that he got his pilots license while in University and is a commercial pilot..

But from what he says, his business degree is pretty useless.

[Homeslice]

Finance or Accounting majors could be described as moderately challenging, but if you are a General Business or Marketing major, it's pretty much a cakewalk. Liberal Arts is actually more difficult.

[CrazyKell]

My husband has a business degree and he has never used it, at least I used my liberal arts degree, well maybe my liberal arts degree was just a stepping point for my Ed. Degree ( to be totally honest) and the main reason he hasn't used his business degree is that he got his pilots license while in University and is a commercial pilot..

But from what he says, his business degree is pretty useless.

Wrong on a lot of levels. Saying you never used your degree is like saying you never used your elementary school education.

Education teaches you something. That "something" might be different for everyone. But it taught you things, or rather you learned from it, and those experiences are of value.

[RACER X]

But I don't actually believe your chances are better with business. :idk: I think a lot of employers just want to see A degree and don't actually care too much what it is. Obviously there are going to be exceptions to that rule.

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i disagree, a bach of business admin/mgmt looks alot better then bach of theatre.

esp. for any job outside of the entertainment industry.

[CrazyKell]

i disagree, a bach of business admin/mgmt looks alot better then bach of theatre.

esp. for any job outside of the entertainment industry.

I used to think that too. But to be honest.....getting jobs is less about that than you think. It sucks but it's the truth.

[RACER X]

I used to think that too. But to be honest.....getting jobs is less about that than you think. It sucks but it's the truth.

i guess thats your opinion. mines diff.

[Homeslice]

i disagree, a bach of business admin/mgmt looks alot better then bach of theatre.

esp. for any job outside of the entertainment industry.

Depends what school you go to..........A top-notch liberal arts school attracts recruiters from all over.

[sherri_chickie]

I guess what I meant was not so much that we didn't " use" our degrees, because of course we have, they really teach a person how to think critically, but more so that the degrees were not instrumental in my husband getting a job as a pilot nor so much my b.a in psych getting me my teaching job.

[goof2]

Business was the party degree at UT when I was there. People who couldn't hack it in engineering transferred to the Business school.

Hey, I resemble that remark!:lol

For the most part a business degree is more useful than a LA degree if 1) you are trying to get a job in business and 2) you have no experience. There are other times when it can give you an advantage but they are limited. Concerning the utility of the degree, even excluding work I use what I learned pretty often.:shrug:

[karl_1052]

When I was in my early 20s, all the partiers who didn't know what they wanted all became psych majors.

I imagine it does go in cycles, but I can see business being the new english lit majors.

[EpyonXero]

When I was in my early 20s, all the partiers who didn't know what they wanted all became psych majors.

I imagine it does go in cycles, but I can see business being the new english lit majors.

Psych is for the people who dont know what they want to do. Business is for the people just know they want to get a job.

[RACER X]

Depends what school you go to..........A top-notch liberal arts school attracts recruiters from all over.

we're talking degree's not type of schools.

[tommymac]

Psych is for the people who dont know what they want to do. Business is for the people just know they want to get a job.

And I guess english lit is for people who dont want to leave school :lol:

Tom

[dReWpY]

then what is a b.s. in biology? lol

[tommymac]

then what is a b.s. in biology? lol

touche :lol:

Tom

[Quick281]

Business was the party degree at UT when I was there. People who couldn't hack it in engineering transferred to the Business school.

That would be me. I was not designed to do math and physics.

[Ineffable]

IMO English, Psych, and Business are all pretty generic degrees. As said above I would classify them as catch-alls. If a person is planning on going to grad school for something like Medicine or Law then it really doesn't matter but stand alone I have heard they are pretty useless besides being able to say you have a degree.

As far as having a B.S. in Biology that is something that carries specific knowledge of a subject rather than in dept general knowledge and can be applied in certain fields. When I was younger and working in sales I noticed that a lot of people I was interviewing against had Psych or English degrees but were still competing for the same job I was as a high school student...

I would say that these days businesses probably value a field specific degree or even a high school graduate with industry work experience over something like psych or english.