Why Business Degrees Are A JOKE | Chris Williamson

The internet has replaced the value of the University level libraries. What the university provides is a lifelong network, a branded culture and set of values that employers can expect in the hiring process, and resources needed to fail and recover. The problem with American universities is that they don’t let students fail any more, and that makes for graduates that come out at graduation less resilient than they went in.

As an engineer… I can confirm that business degrees are a joke.

Employee vs entrepreneur

When you really think about it, no degree is a waste as long as it's a 4 year degree, one would argue.

Marketing yes. Accounting, finanace, MIS, supply chain no. Chris and Destiny should debate going to college

Indians are the most successful group in the United States, and they are also the most conservative while in college. You don't need to "live a little" in order to be successful. You just have to go in a definite direction and get help along the way.

This guy is full of crap. With the exception of marketing and HR, business is hard in Finance, Accounting and Logistics. If it is not, your school sucks. The good business courses uses advanced math heavily like the Black Scholls models, lots of excel work with the discounted cash flow valuation models and Monte Carlo simulations. You will come out of there with a good foundation for programming in Visual Basic.

The business law courses go through tort, contract, uniform commercial code and labor laws with lots of writing briefs arguing as plaintiff and defendant. Advanced law classes can cover tax codes.

The testament to the usefulness of a good business degree is that business majors have some of the lowest unemployment rates in any economic condition at 3%.

Interesting perspective. I’m a recent grad of a top undergrad business school and I had a different experience. The classes are mostly easy (besides supply chain, f*k that class) so you have time to network and upskill on your own.

Want to learn how to network? Here’s a seminar on cold outreach and coffee chats. Don’t know what industry you want to go into? There’s an industry insight panel on tech this week and another one next week for consulting.

At my program there was also a ton of career clubs that have you pro bono experience working with clients. They were extremely competitive (min GPA was 3.8 and there were 3 rounds of interviews), but it gave you the ability to do strategy work for a f500 to put on your resume.

People will be surprised how just being an alumni gets you an edge on job interviews as well. Then again, everyone has different experiences 🤷‍♂️

Depends on the business school. Some are terrific and their graduates are highly sought after. Others, not so much.

Business degrees are for getting jobs in Fortune 500 companies where things like change management, project management, six sigma, etc are extremely valuable. They aren’t for start ups. In large companies 90% of people don’t do sales.

This guy is crazy. Obviously you can't be an accountant without studying accounting. You can't do heavy-duty supply chain and logistics without the training on the software platforms, concepts in the fulfillment of manufacturing and shipping contracts. You can't do finance without studying finance. And nobody is going to hire you in information technology management without you proving you have a background studying it.

College used to teach students how to learn, but now it is an impediment. Except if you learn problem solving in a hard STEM

"A man learns more about business in the first six months after his graduation than he does in his whole four years of college. But—and here is the "practical" result of his college work—he learns far more in those six months than if he had not gone to college. He has been trained to learn, and that, to all intents and purposes, is all the training he has received."

Marks, Percy, "Under Glass", Scribner's Magazine Vol 73, 1923

There are some fields where I think a business major is GAME CHANGING.

For example: Dentistry is a big one. Most states require that a dentist owns the dental practice. Seeing as how most Dentists never studied business, that means most dental practices really suck at business/marketing. My old boss figured that out quick. While getting his MBA, he got all the pre-requisites to go to dental school, then got his DMD. After that, he's basically competing with a bunch of infant business owner. Took him 10 years to acquire 10 practices; my guess is he's worth $30 million in his 40s.

It's a pretty extreme example, but it goes to show that some fields can allow business majors to really crush the competition.

Business degrees are largely a joke and yet they are more valuable than most degrees so how bad are the rest.

Tim Cook. MBA.....

Universities are businesses designed around getting students into debt to support the university administration and teacher salaries, as well as indoctrinate students into leftist ideologies, making them worthless to the world, except to spread hate, increase divisiveness and lower productivity.

I'm getting my MBA right now, and the only reason I'm doing it is because the military is paying for it, but Chris is exactly right.

As a Biology undergrad I recall all the people who dropped due to classes like Cell Bio or Organic Chem — they were literally told by one of my professors to go and get a 4.0 in business. He was an absolute savage but also correct

I had to take a business law class. Hardest class I’ve ever taken. Don’t even use this in my field of work. College taught me to research and be able to work under pressure

Business schools are good for people who have other skills. For example, I have a really strong technical background, so it helped me quite a bit especially those accounting and finance classes.

One thing for sure is that it taught me that I never want to become a lawyer thanks to my business law classes.