Any Business Majors?

[M.I.C.]

I'm trying to decide if I should major in Business/Marketing or Journalism or Physical Sciences. But if I major in business I don't want to get stuck taking hundreds of ridiculously hard math classes my entire college career that I can't handle....Anyone here majoring in any of these? What are the classes like?

 

[Disney Daniel]

I have a business degree (BBA) with a triple concentration in finance, economics and business law. If you are going the marketing route, I would think that you would be taking fewer courses involving mathematics than a finance or accounting major would. Of course, it depends on your university, however at my university all BBA students needed to take two statistics courses, a calculus course, three accounting courses, two finance courses, and two economics courses regardless of their area of concentration, all of which had some mathematical component to them.

I wouldn't be too concerned over having to take course after course involving complex math problems as a marketing major. Even those core courses you may need to take to complete your degree would most likely be no where near the difficulty level of engineering level mathematics.

Again, it depends on your university, but I found that other than the core courses, those who preferred to stay away from math were able to do so for the most part.

 

[epfootballcutie04]

i was double majoring in both business marketing and hospitality management before i switched to just hospitality management.

To get an AA in Business marketing, the only 'number-type' of classes we needed to take were accounting and stats... as well as college algebra for generals.

I'm not sure what kind of classes you would need to take, if any, if you got your 4 year because I didn't go that far.

But I think that a Business Marketing major would be one you could get a lot of use out of

 

[ChloroFiend]

My undergrad degree (Management Information Systems) was from the college of business. We had to take a 3-credit pre-calculus course, a 3-credit calculus course, and a 5-credit statistics course.

It tends to be the science and engineering programs that will load you up on advanced calc, differential equations, that type of thing. The only thing that kept me from switching to computer engineering was wanting to avoid all the math and calc-based physics courses I'd have needed.

 

[Quiksilvr]

I was a business major in college. The math isn't too bad. Most programs do require a calculus course, but if you focus your studies in one of the "softer" areas of business (i.e., marketing, management, etc.) you won't have to do math at a higher level than that. I thought the math required in my finance courses was pretty tame. Accounting is not so much about math as it is about how money is accounted for in a business. Because of that, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division is about as hard as it gets in most 100 level accounting courses.

Almost all programs require statistics courses. Stats math is also not exactly rocket science. I am not a "math guy" but I always got As in my statistics courses. I liked stats because the math seemed more useful than some of the abstract stuff. Econ courses can require some calc depending on your prof, but in most survey type courses they don't get into it too deep.

I guess it also depends on where you go to school. If you go to a top business school the requirements are often harder.

 

[Willow1213]

I am a business major right now. We are required to take 2 math classes (calc 1 and finite math), 2 acct classes, finance, stats, and a class called management science. The last one is the only one I have had trouble with at all. I am not an "abstract math" person, but if it involves money, I'm great!

Business can take you so many places that it's worth it if you can get through some of the tougher courses. My best friend just graduated and has a starting salary of $57k with a guaranteed $5k raise when she completes her CPA requirements. I can't wait to graduate!

~Abby

 

[OilSlinger822]

I'm a Business Adm major (concentration in Human Resources) and I have to take 2 math classes, 4 economic classes, and 2 accounting classes.. so far nothing has been too difficult and i'm DEFINITELY NOT a math person lol... it's mostly a matter of just sticking through it and trying to not burn ur books when u get frustrated

 

[Rogue9287]

I just finished by Bachalor's degree in Marketing, and am working towards my MBA now.

Going from memory, the only math classes I took, were Accounting 1&2, (not difficult math, you can use calculators ) Finance, Stats and Pre-Cal.

The only tough class was pre-cal. Some schools dont' require that, mine (East Carolina University) did.

If you were to major in finance, accounting, MIS etc, there would be more math. Marketing has less math.

 

[OilSlinger822]

The only tough class was pre-cal. Some schools dont' require that, mine (East Carolina University) did.

hey Rogue9287 we're neighbors!! haha i go to UNC-G

 

[M.I.C.]

thanks for all the responses

 

[moodringer10]

I am business marketing...I don't like all the prereqs I have to take, but I feel business is such a good major because you learn things that will help you in real life.