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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Business degree? Really? Everyone I know who got one of those found it pretty useless. Better to go into generally studies and explore what University had to offer, than dive into that first year. You need the right personality type to be successful with a business degree, I wouldn't consider it a good default if you don't know what you are doing. Speaking from, uhm, direct experience.
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Business basics with finance, accounting and marketing are more useful for the basics of financial literacy than general studies, general sciences, social sciences or art. It's also more likely to look good on a resume, even if yes, it's basically as useless as courses in other disciplines.
Bcomm also forces you to take options classes in other disciples so you can still easily see what else the university has to offer. If you fumble through 4-5 years of university, Bcomm is still more recognized than general studies. From that point, treat the Bcomm as general studies, take further education or abandon it anyways and do what you actually want to do (recommended to figure it out earlier than convocation though).
That was advice given to me years ago. Don't general studies degree, do Bcomm. I started off taking so many interest options classes anyways that I ended up a few credits shy of a social sciences double major. I didn't head down focus on a Bcomm degree. My friends who general studies and social sciences degrees ended up in dead end paths and abandoned all of what they learned in their degree in their career. I thought I too tight I didn't learn much in Bcomm. But I had the options to keep furthering my education. My friends did not. One works doing nothing close to his degree but is making do. The other started over and did a culinary path. Still looking for his niche, but happily enjoying what he's doing.
For someone who doesn't know what they're doing, you can't ask them to do engineering, law or nursing/medicine. You can't blunder your way through earth sciences as easily as Bcomm. White collar wise, that leaves Bcomm as the most well recognized by HR (assuming same GPA) for those who are aimless when going for a degree IMO.
Many resumes are auto filtered these days. It's unfair that a smarter kid might get filtered out because general studies vs something classier degree wise, but dumber candidates, but it is what it is.
IMO an MBA is overrated too. It's designed IMO for those who are unsure of what they'd accomplished up to that point. MBA isn't useless, but it's not as creme a la creme candidate as it once was. Especially since over qualification is a thing.