Re:The Lasting Consequences of Student Debt
by epalmer on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @04:24PM
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I mentored two international business majors (from bosnia). They graduated at the top of the class for all business majors. They learned at the school I work at much more than that. But I have heard about programs like you describe.
When I was in school, people had the most contempt for business majors.
The engineering people got respect for the technical difficulty of what they did.
The liberal arts folks got respect for the intellectual pursuit.
When we would look at a business major, all we would see was style with no substance. Almost all their education was geared towards appearances. When my undergrad forced all business undergrads to own laptops, the reason was "No one will take you seriously without one". A business professor told me that when students give presentations, he never listens to the content. His feedback is entirely about appearance (suitable clothes, appropriate voice, sexy presentation, etc).
As far as actual content goes, you could more easily learn it all on your own than you could for, say, software or programming (since that is a concern in this thread somewhere).
The primary utility of the business degree is:
1. Learn to look good.
2. Join a somewhat exclusive club.