Do quant or be shit

What's the best business degree and why is it finance?

But I thought only people with a PhD in math/physics got hired as quants.

This is the case family

Why does everyone always put marketing down? Do people don't really know what it means? What it represent? The fact that it can make or break the success of a company? The fact that it can make your product a worldwide phenomena? Coca Cola became one of the most recognized words in the world. They became so with a most simple product: a softdrink. Now that is something. Also it's true marketing positions don't have salaries of programmers or what not, but the higher positions can earn you more than 100k. So why is it so bad again? Or people here only think of business as finance and stuff like that and they put everything else down?

It's not bad or useless. It would be a good degree except for 2 things (related things).
1.It's an easy course.
2.So many people get marketing degrees/related degrees that only 4.0's or nepotism can get you a job

There was a poll taken at my uni, nearly 1/2 of all the majors for business were marketing or HR.

Well I guess the good thing is that this situation is not everywhere in the world. Sure it may be easy and a lot of people take it, but not everyone will get a job in this field, only those that are good or lucky. Also I don't really get the classification of marketing as part of a business degree, different education system and whatnot, but here it's an economic degree, and it makes more sense than a business one.

I'm from Australia. Our business bachelors is called commerce and with that you choose your major, economics, hr, finance etc. We have specialised bachelors of marketing, finance, accounting etc where it's more in depth. I've never seen a hr degree, only withing a bachelor of business or commerce as a major.

Finance degree is useless. Top tier undergrad schools don't even offer it because it's shit.
If you want to go to the fundamental side you major in accounting (or whatever if you're in top schools). If you want to go to the quantitative side you major in statistics or math, if you want to be a quant coder you major in CS. The rest is just meme and doesn't require a college degree.

It depends on where you study. University fame in the business world is all. You can get a shit mgmt grad degree in a top uni and land in GS. You can study your ass like a fucking nigger slave in fin/econ in a mid-low tier uni and stuck yourself in shit positions in shit institutions.

True. I have a friend that got his bachelors at UC Berkeley and continued on at UC Davis. He now works for Cisco and makes a fuck ton on money. Livin the life.

I'm a finance major and we don't really do that much math aside from like basic algebra.

>Requires mathematical skills

>finance
>requres math

w e w

op confirmed for failed high school calculus

This is also the impression I'm getting.

I took economics and probably had more calculus than anyone in the undergrad finance classes.

None of the math directly related to anything that I did after I graduated, but I sure as fuck understand derivatives and iterative functions better than most b-school grads.

I can quantitatively model better than any finance major I met, that's for sure.

This. I took a bunch of undergrad finance courses for my econ degree, and basically everything was "advanced TI-84 utilization".

If you want to study the mathematical principles behind market movements, go into behavioral statistics. If you want to learn about business finance fundamentals, take accounting. If you simply want to make money, and don't care how to do it, get the best grades you can in the easiest undergrad finance courses you can find, get a bullshit job for a consulting firm or F500, then get an MBA from a top-50 school. Get your 3.0+ GPA (because if you're in an MBA program, you're basically trading $60-150k for a good GPA; if you're not doing well in grad school, you need to seriously re-think your life choices), apply as a mid-level manager for an F500, and make $150k/year into perpetuity while you work 60 hour weeks for the rest of your working life.

Huetard Business/Accounting graduate here. In Brazil, Business gives you a generic Business Management degree, but you choose an area of expertise to concentrate on during graduation.

At my school, Business underclassmen were presented to pic related. It's a model to pick an area of interest based on personal traits.

There were 4 areas of interest:

>Marketing and Sales

>Finance

>Operations Management (includes project/logistics/materials management)

>HR

The personal traits in question are:

>Intelligence

>Work-ethic

Smart people who don't like to work hard, should pick Marketing.

Smart and hardworking people pick Finance.

Intellectually challenged hardworkers go to Operations

Dumb and Lazy people should pick HR

Works fine, as far as I can tell

they showed this to students?

crap, even the schools are taking a shit on HR

>Finance
Good degree, but only top tier if you combo it with math or stats or 's

>Econ
Great if you are gonna do law school, otherwise add in math like Finance

>BIS
Good

>Tax
No such thing as a tax major you fucking moron

>Accounting
Good, and tax usually comes through accounting

>Logistics
Good if you combo with stats or your program is sufficiently quantitative

>Marketing
Really good with cs, terrible otherwise

>Other three
Bad

*cs, not 's

Business information systems here. Ask me anything.

What coding languages did they emphasise in your program? Or did you just learn sap?

SQL, Java and Python. I've just finished the subject that teaches SQL and I'm doing Java next semester. Haven't encountered SAP apart from writing a paper on it as a cloud data warehousing solution.

Sql and python are p useful. I've heard bad things about java, like it's a pain in the ass,etc.

Yeah, I've heard that. There's only so much that a 12-week course can teach, and I plan to learn programming more comprehensively once I start working in business analysis or something.

If you can get into an Ivy League, do finance

If you can't, do accounting

>Finance
>Good degree, but only top tier if you combo it with math or stats or 's

If I combo it with engineering (im thinking software, computer or electronic engineering) will that count as quantitative enough as say stats, math, physics etc?

I am getting a degree in finance from a good finance school.

You'd be fine

Cool thanks. Even if my engineering department is 'meh' tier? My school is known for finance, actuarial studies etc.

>all these people talking about accounting like it means something

Enjoy making shit money and wanting to die

/future IB

Likewise, the most difficult math I've faced (going to be a senior next year) is the black scholes model. FCF, DDM, etc. is pretty basic algebra. Regardless, I'm just following my old mans footsteps. Makes 7 digits and was a finance major, then got his masters in accounting.

>tfw friend is getting into debt for a philosophy/art history major while I have money in the bank and an actual job with no college education

The age of the degree will be dead in the next decade and all the student loan babies are going to be the ones telling their grandkids about how hard the second Great Depression was.

I'm literally just in uni due to my parents forcing me to get a degree. If it were by me I'd already move to LA

Maybe you're just envious that your friend is more intelligent than you are and has interests beyond making money.

Finance is where you see how really big deals get done.

And where you make the money.

What do you guys think about Survey Statistics/Methodology?

I've been thinking about getting into it, is it worth it?