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It isn’t obvious from your link… what % of current grads are “business majors” who don’t really know anything other than how to be greedy and justify it with fa
by hn_version_0023 4y ago
It isn’t obvious from your link… what % of current grads are “business majors” who don’t really know anything other than how to be greedy and justify it with fancy PowerPoint slide decks?
The number of grads may have gone way up, but I think the education itself had slid down the slippery slope to create too many administrators and bureaucrats.
- noplsbecivil 4y ago"don’t really know anything other than how to be greedy" - this is a pretty bad faith take, and also simply not true. In the US at least, business grads typically take accounting courses, marketing courses, even statistics courses. All of those skills lead to jobs that can provide both societal and economic value.
- hn_version_0023 4y agoMy personal experience says otherwise, but I’ll concede that accounting does have value. Marketing? Well, we can disagree there — to me marketing is making a science out of “parting fools with their money”, so to speak. It’s always felt fundamentally dishonest and a little dirty. But again, thats me and I am definitely biased.
- relaxing 4y agoYou’re right that the business major has metastasized, while the education major has shrunk. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/05/09/310114739/whats-your-major-four-decades-of-college-degrees-in-1-graph https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/05/09/310114739/what...