Communications vs Marketing? Which to choose.

[mednat]

I'm in a quandary. I'm enrolled at TESC, and really want a marketing degree, but accounting and statistics make my head spin. But the best alternative for me is Communications, which isn't as easy to test out of, from what I'm seeing. Both are equally relevant to my career path, and there's no specific preference in my field. I really just want to finish college, because I'm the only one at my company of 40 people who hasn't. But I feel like a copout going for the 'easier' classes because I know if I tried, I could do the harder ones - I just don't really *want* to work harder than necessary.

So that said, my big question for you folks:

Are there additional issues in testing out of a Communications degree that would make it more challenging than BSBA Marketing?

I don't have experience with the communications degree, but from the BSBA Marketing side, I would say statistics knowledge for a marketing career could be very useful. For stats, I highly recommend Sophia statistics (if you go this way). They mix in research design topics with regular statistics to make it more practical, and also help boost your scores if you don't do well with the pure stats. Depending on your function. Marketing Research should be the base for any marketing plan, and that will (or at least should) involve various statistical measures and should be setup using the same principles used for any research design. For any management position, accounting is useful.

If you're on the creative side, you're right, these will probably not be directly useful.

I'm all for working smart, not hard. However, you may limit yourself in the future by avoiding these two topics completely. With that being said, if you have a creative role and want a degree quickly, you can always take them later if you decide they're useful.