It’s always seemed like a generic field of study. Unless you pair it with IT or something.
One child of mine, a finance major just received a nice job offer.
I got a major in women’s studies and journalism. How’s the outlook for me?
Our economy is selling out our country.
There are people who will do well, but our economy is generally going in exactly the wrong direction.
Keep and bring back, American jobs. Stop selling out our nation.
(sorry, just another viewpoint)
I happen to think it’s closer to reality.
That is just me however.
I happen to distrust any story that I read that casts this economy as robust. I think, rather, it is a question of selling us on mediocre as the new norm. As with all things mediocre there are some bright spots here and there. The media focuses on those bright spots as if they tell the entire story of the economy. See, the economy is terrific as evidenced by the fact that business majors are not sucking wind as hard as other majors.
Look at the number, 77%, of grads at a well-known school (Emory) having a job at time of graduation.
In the 80s and early 2000’s, that number might have been 88-94 percent.
Consulting firms, mentioned in the article, are a tiny percentage of new BBA employers. The big employers are big companies like Target, Enterprise, and other employers of entry-level salaried employees. This article has some odd quirky statements that raise additional questions.