its to learn different aspects of the business world. Finance, law, ethics, technology, administration, entrepreneurship,and other facets of the business world.

Some colleges offer specific degrees for those areas, some offer general business where you learn all the areas, and some offer both.

A business degree helps one to understand the inner working of business – which is helpful in tending to ones own business. However: 1) in ones own business one should be a subject-matter-expert i.e. know how to repair shoes to open a cobbler’s shop; 2) most business majors go into larger companies and make the decisions which the working people sit around and wonder, “which moron thought that up?”