What would you study at college?

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I may go to college because I need a solid grounding in business. I don't get a lot of terms and stuff.

What do you suggest? Go to general business Bsc? BA

Then MBA maybe?

I live in Eastern Europe and in my country not english is the official language.

Should I move to an english speaking country like UK and study there? Or is it enough that I study in my own language?

My goal is financial freedom.
 


Konvert said:
I may go to college because I need a solid grounding in business. I don't get a lot of terms and stuff.

What do you suggest? Go to general business Bsc? BA

Then MBA maybe?

I live in Eastern Europe and in my country not english is the official language.

Should I move to an english speaking country like UK and study there? Or is it enough that I study in my own language?

My goal is financial freedom.
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I'm going to college starting next semester, specifically in UK. I picked Marketing.

nuff said
 
Konvert said:
I may go to college because I need a solid grounding in business. I don't get a lot of terms and stuff.

What do you suggest? Go to general business Bsc? BA

Then MBA maybe?

I live in Eastern Europe and in my country not english is the official language.

Should I move to an english speaking country like UK and study there? Or is it enough that I study in my own language?

My goal is financial freedom.
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For Financial freedom you should seek not job/career but ideas/business. None of universities will teach you how to take responsibility/risk and to make money. All universities make money on you!. The only reason to go to universitiy is to found future partners/ideas.
Of course good education gives you good START salary, but don't forget that it cost a tone of $$$ and after it you have to work on some guy. This money and time can be invested in your OWN business...

But it just me. I can't listen to orders)
 
Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises. Easy as hell and actually interesting. Most classes revolve around studying successful entrepreneurs and watching them speak.

Also did finance. Stupid ass major that i dont recommend unless your trying to be like 99% of wannabe businessmen
 
Study Maths or some Engineering. You can apply the knowledge in almost anything. Or Finance.

Take a few Marketing subjects as Minor/Optional. Advertising, Market Research, Consumer Behavior, and you should be set.

PS: Take an Economics paper and Statistics paper as well.
 
Computer science. Business can't be taught in my opinion. Sure you can learn all the jargon etc but the real skills come with experience. Read up on business sure.. but i wouldnt do a degree in it unless i was aiming for the 'corporate world'. If i could go back i would do computer science for sure.. Leaning towards web dev. I assume as you are on this forum you want to to internet ventures... I would be so far ahead now if i had compuer science behind me.
 
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do math and take compsci courses for electives, unless you can somehow minor in it.

majoring compsci will drain you, not because it's hard, but because there ain't no gurlz.
 
I got a communications degree but I would definetly do something in business if i were to go back in time and do it again.
 
I'm finishing my BS in Marketing/Management in May - taking my capstone courses now. I only went back because I hate leaving shit unfinished and to provide an example for my kids because they probably won't all have an entrepreneur mindset. That being said, I've learned very little that I didn't already know, and most of it is stuff I already knew instinctively but maybe didn't necessarily know the official name for it or whatever. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for example. A lot of the shit is common sense, but some fucker gave it a name and put it in a textbook, so now it's official dogma.

If you're going to be an entrepreneur you don't necessarily need a degree, although it will help if you ever need a business loan. But the sad truth is, you can learn more from reading Ca$hvertising in 4 hours, then you'll learn from a marketing degree in 4 years.
 
Management Information Systems - from the school's Business department.

Pros:
- You take a lot of classes with the BA and Accounting majors (think networking, plus there's girls :p )
- The degree is business-focused so you learn how technology is going to be used in businesses.
- The degree is productive because you can use it in any business if you have to take a break from working for yourself.
- CEOs like it because they need someone who can talk techy in layman's terms with management, but won't be snowed by the IS people and cost the company money because they don't know what the IS people are doing.
- You get a good mix of business and programing/IS classes.

Cons:
- Not entirely computer science focused, even though you will have a lot of technical classes.
- Won't have as many math classes or engineering classes so don't expect to work for Google unless you study it a lot on the side.

I'm not saying you'll learn anything extraordinary and it'll change your life with every class, but it will help you see the world differently in a few of the classes. When you get to Strategic Management, usually the capstone course at the end, you'll see why having a strong mix of business and programming/tech classes makes sense and you'll be rocking those group strategy discussions.
 
The School of Hard Knox son, don't waste your money with college unless you want to do something highly specialized (lawyer, health)- otherwise you'll spend more time having to forget what you learned to market and run a business properly
 
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better to go to the native English speaking place and study because your goal is financial freedom where you may get it through out the world
 
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