Accounting vs Business Admin

[Rustydroid]

Hey guys I posted a thread here about completing a degree with Excelsior or TESU. Thanks for all the responses. I was wondering what everybody thinks of a Business Admin vs Accounting. I started with a Business Admin and I've completed Financial accounting and a few business classes. 
I went with Business Admin because it seems more flexible for me since I'm an experienced tradesman and I also have worked as a Power Plant operator. I'm getting near the top of my pay scale and I need to be eventually be a supervisor then a manager if I want to make more money in the future. However in order to be a manager I do need a four year degree.
So with that in mind I went for a Business Admin degree. I also planning on completing an Excelsior College Degree an Associates is Engineering Tech I believe since that's what they award based on my Navy schools. 
Now that I've taken a few Business classes I've come to realize that a Business Admin Degree sits just a bit above a History Degree when it comes to being worth something in the job market. I'm middle aged with experience in other fields so I'm thinking that it may be worthless for new college grads but not so much for me specially with supervisory experience. I took an accounting class and got an A and I found it interesting. Stimulating might be the better word and one of my professors keeps telling people to major in something else other then Business Admin. 
So I've been thinking about accounting since it seems more useful as a degree but I would probably not work in that field. I basically just need a degree but accounting sounds like a good back up. Also a lot of the classes between Accounting and Business Admin are the same except that with accounting you take a lot more accounting classes. I'm just wondering what others think.