Is Business the new Liberal Arts? - Page 3

tommymac · 12-12-2009, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by EpyonXero

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

Tom

dReWpY · 12-12-2009, 06:31 PM

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

tommymac · 12-12-2009, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by drewpy

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

touche

Tom

Quick281 · 12-13-2009, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

Ineffable · 12-13-2009, 05:50 PM

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.

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12-13-2009, 05:50 PM	#25
Ineffable Kneedragger Join Date: May 2008 Location: Boulder CO Moto: 2009 KTM RC8 Posts: 166	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.