Liberal Arts degrees

[ryoder]

One thing I keep seeing happening over and over is more people want an MBA. These people are in all fields but realize 15 years into the career that executive management positions require sound business knowledge.

The MBA I am working on is a lot easier to complete since I already acquired the knowledge in the BSBA so now its just a matter of applying it and doing some critical thinking and writing.

So if you want a "generic" degree that has long-term value, strongly consider a BSBA. Schools in the US put a hefty amount of liberal arts education in any professional degree anyway so you are not missing out on history, humanities, math, science by doing a professional degree.

Talk to someone from India about their undergrad and they will tell you it was wholly technical. They don't study any liberal arts at all in their engineering or business degree programs and they finish them in 3 years instead of four. So my point is that a BSBA or other professional degree has plenty of liberal arts exposure built-in if its a US degree.

Business draws heavily on math, psychology, law and communications but puts those concepts into the context of an organizational setting such as a private company or a public government agency.