Management Degree or Marketing Degree? Little help...

[chewyxrage]

I'm at the point in my classes where have to decide.

Is there any reason you personally would choose to go one way or another?

Which do you think would provide better opportunity in today's job market?

Do you or anyone you know personally hold a BS in either of these?



Marketing:

http://www.cob.niu.edu/mktg/careers.asp


Management:

http://www.cob.niu.edu/mgmt/

 

[Devastation]

go accounting

 

[awittyusername]

I was in your same situation. My college offered a dual degree in both. So, I have a Marketing-Management Degree. I figured it would cover any job I would go for. However, I never ended up getting a job. lol

 

[chewyxrage]

go accounting

too late for that

 

[Devastation]

I was in your same situation. My college offered a dual degree in both. So, I have a Marketing-Management Degree. I figured it would cover any job I would go for. However, I never ended up getting a job. lol

almost same here. i graduated with a business degree and was unemployed forever (sorta). got an accounting degree and got all kinds of offers. ended up doing my own thing, which i prefer anyways

 

[chewyxrage]

almost same here. i graduated with a business degree and was unemployed forever (sorta). got an accounting degree and got all kinds of offers. ended up doing my own thing, which i prefer anyways

what's sorta mean?

What type of jobs were you applying for?

 

[2ez]

Not sure of the classes you have taken. Management IMO seems very broad of a major unless you have specialized or have an emphasis in something in particular.

I was never a fan of Marketing....but I do know a few that have gone on to make 6 figure salaries here in NY esp after an MBA.


I say check out: Accounting, Finance. Finance may be a shorter route than your accounting. that is if you have an interest in either.

 

[chewyxrage]

Not sure of the classes you have taken. Management IMO seems very broad of a major unless you have specialized or have an emphasis in something in particular.

I was never a fan of Marketing....but I do know a few that have gone on to make 6 figure salaries here in NY esp after an MBA.


I say check out: Accounting, Finance. Finance may be a shorter route than your accounting. that is if you have an interest in either.

Well the thing is Accounting and Finance have GPA requirements which I have not met. There are limited seats in accounting, finance, and management, no limit really for marketing. I would choose finance if I had my pick, it's easy and you can use everything you learn to make yourself rich.

 

[Synpax]

Go with financing. Talk to the professors or department head about your GPA being too low but that you are more mature now. I bet they will bend the rules for you if you are straight up and honest about it.

Management is blah. Marketing is even more blah.

At my school (GWU 00') you either got a BBA or an accounting degree. The BBAs had focuses in areas like Info systems, finance, real estate, hr, marketing, etc.

Marketing was where the people at the bottom of the barrel went. The couldn't do the math that was required for finance, real estate, or accounting, couldn't handle computers for info sys, and just couldn't quiet handle remembering all the employment regulations for HR.

Same goes for the professors. I see your school has the same problem with the marketing department at my school. Namely, they don't talk about _real_ marketing. They cover the simple, sexy stuff like advertising, sales, etc.

What they don't talk about is B-to-B marketing and supply chain management, pricing models, and just how you go from getting a product from a factory floor to it's ultimate destination. Or stuff like ad placement / points / arbitron/nielson.

Ultimately, you are going to make your own opportunities out there. For the most part, the purpose of the degree is not to prove that you learned something in particular, but that you can get your act together enough to complete a degree. So what matters more than anything is the school you actually went to than what area of business you focused on.

However, you should pick something where you will learn something - and I firmly believe that finance will teach you the most - it will teach you how the world works. You will have one key concept - the time value of money - drilled into you over and over and over along with a few other things (how to read / create / analyze balance sheets, moral hazard, adverse selection, the agency problem).

Five years out, I ma very happy with that choice (I actually doubled in finance and master info systems).

 

[BUBBLES]

Management because you will be promoted sooner than having a Marketing degree.