Berkeley Haters Forum

[09042014]

If there is one thing liberal arts and science/engin majors can all agree, it is that business degrees are TTT.

Who is with me?

[$1.99]

haha says the guy who get rejected at TTT cornell, if you dont like being judged ignorantly, dont make assumptions like that

[crackberry]

If there is one thing liberal arts and science/engin majors can all agree, it is that business degrees are TTT.

Who is with me?

Respectable schools don't even have "business" or "accounting" majors. If you want to go into business, you major in economics.

[$1.99]

so uc berkeley, upenn, and mit, just to name a few are not respectable?

[td6624]

Yeah what's with that silly Wharton undergraduate program.

[BioEBear2010]

If there is one thing liberal arts and science/engin majors can all agree, it is that business degrees are TTT.

Who is with me?

Respectable schools don't even have "business" or "accounting" majors. If you want to go into business, you major in economics.

Of course MIT, Penn, Michigan, and Cal aren't respectable. We are in the "Berkeley Haters" thread, after all

[crackberry]

It was sort of a joke, sort of not. I still think economics is a better primer for business than "business" as ridiculous as that may look on paper.

[los blancos]

It was sort of a joke, sort of not. I still think economics is a better primer for business than "business" as ridiculous as that may look on paper.

This. But it also varies school to school. At schools that have business majors, the econ majors are often watered down.

[09042014]

haha says the guy who get rejected at TTT cornell, if you dont like being judged ignorantly, dont make assumptions like that

Sense of humor failure.

[BioEBear2010]

It was sort of a joke, sort of not. I still think economics is a better primer for business than "business" as ridiculous as that may look on paper.

This. But it also varies school to school. At schools that have business majors, the econ majors are often watered down.

This.

[$1.99]

i have never seen anyone who majored in a major called "business", it was usually more specific. i partly agree with you that economics is more hard core but ppl should not dismiss finance, accounting, etc majors just because there are a lot of TTT business schools because some of us actually come from respectable programs

[crackberry]

i have never seen anyone who majored in a major called "business", it was usually more specific. i partly agree with you that economics is more hard core but ppl should not dismiss finance, accounting, etc majors just because there are a lot of TTT business schools because some of us actually come from respectable programs

I do know a few people who majored in "business." All of them are from TTT undergrads.

[BioEBear2010]

i have never seen anyone who majored in a major called "business", it was usually more specific. i partly agree with you that economics is more hard core but ppl should not dismiss finance, accounting, etc majors just because there are a lot of TTT business schools because some of us actually come from respectable programs

I do know a few people who majored in "business." All of them are from TTT undergrads.

I believe that one gets a B.S. in business from Haas. Yes, that's right, a B.S. I don't understand how we can confer a Bachelor of Science for business, but not for Physics. I go to a strange school.

[los blancos]

i have never seen anyone who majored in a major called "business", it was usually more specific. i partly agree with you that economics is more hard core but ppl should not dismiss finance, accounting, etc majors just because there are a lot of TTT business schools because some of us actually come from respectable programs

Finance is often legitimately hard, it's really just an application of economics.

I think what people mean when they make fun of 'business' majors on here is 'business administration' or 'business management'.

[td6624]

There's usually a business college with different available majors.

The people I know in this college are also the only people I know right now that have jobs. Some of them have pretty well paying jobs. That's not something to sneeze at ITE.

[09042014]

It was sort of a joke, sort of not. I still think economics is a better primer for business than "business" as ridiculous as that may look on paper.

If I were recruiting for a large company, I wouldn't care about degrees for anything but jobs that require prior knowledge. I'd hire a philosophy major for the same job I'd hire a business major.

Obviously, if I were looking for a chemist, I'd hire a chem major.

[quetzalcoatl]

i have never seen anyone who majored in a major called "business", it was usually more specific. i partly agree with you that economics is more hard core but ppl should not dismiss finance, accounting, etc majors just because there are a lot of TTT business schools because some of us actually come from respectable programs

Finance is often legitimately hard, it's really just an application of economics.

I think what people mean when they make fun of 'business' majors on here is 'business administration' or 'business management'.

TITCR, Has anyone actually sat through a ug managment course? Laughable. Managment, at the ug level, is probably the best (or worst?) example of useless pedagogization in an intuitive field, e.g Porter's five forces, SWOT analysis, 'key success factors', etc. (maybe not as bad as "business ethics", but close).
If you want to do business you need to at least minor in eco.

[$1.99]

the whole concept of making an undergrad prepared to be a manager is TTT

[09042014]

the whole concept of making an undergrad prepared to be a manager is TTT

qft

[kittenmittons]

It's 5:40 CST, Berkeley still sucks.

[fortissimo]

Midwest

Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Michigan
Notre Dame

lulz @ Michigan or Notre Dame being held above UChicago and Northwestern in the Midwest

To be fair if we are talking lay prestige nobody knows what UChicago is, even in Chicago.

Its really embarrassing. Though anyone who knows much about academics really places a high value on UChicago. But said person would then look down at ND for being overrated.

+1 I've heard that UChicago is oftentimes confused with the University of Illinois at Chicago, particularly by those in Chicago. I guess the Galllup poll proves it.

[09042014]

+1 I've heard that UChicago is oftentimes confused with the University of Illinois at Chicago, particularly by those in Chicago. I guess the Galllup poll proves it.

By brother has been going to UofC hospital every couple weeks. But he constantly calls it UIC. He is college educated.

[kittenmittons]

+1 I've heard that UChicago is oftentimes confused with the University of Illinois at Chicago, particularly by those in Chicago. I guess the Galllup poll proves it.

By brother has been going to UofC hospital every couple weeks. But he constantly calls it UIC. He is college educated.

Berkeley?

[09042014]

+1 I've heard that UChicago is oftentimes confused with the University of Illinois at Chicago, particularly by those in Chicago. I guess the Galllup poll proves it.

By brother has been going to UofC hospital every couple weeks. But he constantly calls it UIC. He is college educated.

Berkeley?

Northern Illinois. Not to be confused with Northwestern.

My other brother goes to Western Illinois. So my mom now confused northern, western and northwestern. With hilarious results when she brags to her friends about me going to law school.

[ranovr32]

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