Hello everyone, I am trying to decide which degree to get. At least I have decided on the school - Thomas Edison State College. I have also decided that I want to get a BSBA. Now I have to decide whether to do general business, or major in accounting, or double major in accounting and finance. I originally decided to do general business because I want business knowledge to run a small business or work in various areas of a business. Then I took an accounting course, liked it, took another, liked it, took another, ... and so on. Now I have 15 accounting credits with straight A's. At this point I am wondering if I should change my major to accounting instead of having a general business degree with many accounting credits, especially since an accounting major would only require 3 more courses. Would an accounting degree be much better than a general business degree? But if I do accounting I would not be able to do the other areas of business that I want to do, like finance, management, and marketing. Since I like finance, I am also thinking about doing a double major in accounting and finance. I am wondering whether majoring in accounting or accounting/finance would be worth the extra cost and time. Majoring in acc. would cost about $1,000 more and take 3 more months, majoring in acc/finance would cost around $3,000 more and take at least 6 more months (considering I am already past my goal graduation date). I would appreciate any advice or suggestions. Thank you and sorry for the long post.
Majoring in accounting would allow you to complete the BA and move on to an MBA in which you could choose a more generalized business education.
Accounting = job. Business = competing with every other non-specialized business major for a job. Good luck.
If you think you'll be going on to grad school, you could do your BA/BS in business administration and then get either an MBA with accounting or finance concentration or do a MAcc. I think conventional wisdom is that undergrad should be general and you can get more specific in grad school.
Interesting point. Accounting is my vote because it's specialized and in demand. Business is so broad that it may be harder to find a job.
Go with accounting- it offers something a general business degree doesn't, and, besides, you already will have a strong foundation in general business with the non-accounting core courses you have to take as part of the Accounting BSBA.