A few days ago
Pursuer of Knowledge

How USEFUL is a businese major anyways?

Hi, Thanks for helping a confused to-be senior ^_^

Well, this year their is lots of pressure on me for choosing a major and ultimatly a college.

The problem is I was doing some research online and found that businese major in general isn’t profitable as it sound because occupations like docter, lawyer, engineer has a better staring wage and future wages.

That is why i am second thoughing taking a major in business

The first reason I choose business was because I like straegy, leading a unit and out thing oppenents type of things. SO if you have other major that might fit this passion I will like to hear from you

or you can explain why a business major might be worth pursuing.

Thank you so much for helping me in my journey.

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A few days ago
curious george

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Business major, like any major, is only worth what you put into it. Out of my group of friends from college, the starting salary for the business majors was between $40k-$120k).

I’ve heard that engineers have a higher starting salary in general, however without additional schooling the salary increase year after year doesn’t grow very much.

Doctors and lawyers will make more, but you’ll be in school for much longer. Also, doctors are faced with a lot of problems in the health care industry, and I’ve never met a doctor who hasn’t complained about the enormous cost of malpractice insurance.

Figure out what you want to do. If you walk into a store and can estimate how much money their generating daily, what they’re doing right and what they could be doing better, well you should probably be a business major.

There are a wide range of positions you can take as a business major, versus doctors, lawyers, and engineers who can specialize in something, but basically they are doctors, lawyers, and engineers.

With a business major you can get into accounting, consulting, all kinds of management positions, investments, and real estate just to name a few.

Hope that helps and good luck!

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