E-Commerce/E-Business Associate or Bachelors degrees.

Discussion in 'Business and MBA degrees' started by foobessional, Jul 13, 2011.

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  1. foobessional

    foobessional New Member

    Hey folks, i am currently looking for opinions of places that offer E-Business/E-Commerce degrees.

    I've looked into Ashworth, McKinley, and LA College so far.

    I would love to hear some of your thoughts on these places. I'm aware that some are NA and possibly make it tougher to transfer to RA schools..

    Also I was wondering if obtaining an Associates + Gaining a certificate in a relevant field, such as UC-Irvine's extension programs like Web Intelligence or SEO.

    Thanks in advance!
     
  2. Fortunato

    Fortunato Member

    I *hate* the idea of a degree with a major in e-anything. The idea seems to be that you're going to take a the description of a traditional field, add the words "on a computer" to the end, and all of a sudden you've created a completely new area of study. That simply isn't true, and I'm speaking as someone whose entire career has been based around various forms of electronic commerce.

    The big worry I have with a degree in e-business is that the curriculum might look like an unwieldy hybrid between business administration and computer science that ultimately prepares you for neither field. My advice to you is worth exactly what you're paying for it, but with that caveat, I'll offer it anyway: You want to study business and computers, then do it, but focus in one area. If you want to be a programmer, then study CompSci and minor in business administration. If you want to be a suit, then major in Business and minor in CompSci. Either way, plan on getting a master's degree, most likely an MBA, down the road.

    If you are going for an associates, then do it at an RA school and spend the least money you can. Most local community colleges have tons of online programs and they are dirt cheap. If the Harvard By The Highway in your county doesn't offer what you want, I'd be willing to bet one a few counties over does. Spending for-profit or private school $$$ on a AA/AS/AAS degree doesn't make sense to me when there are so many affordable choices out there.

    Good luck to you!
     
  3. AUTiger00

    AUTiger00 New Member

    I agree with Fortunato on this one, get a general business degree, take some electives in e-commerce or do a certificate in it if you want, but majoring in it just seems like a bad decision. You'll learn more about e-commerce in an entry-level job in that field than any number of courses in the area could ever teach you.
     
  4. rmm0484

    rmm0484 Member

    What are you going to do with this degree? Take it from one who has been there, e-commerce is passe, it has been institutionalized to a great extent.

    I would suggest Knowledge Management, a subset of e-commerce (which is a little more current), or better still informatics, especially medical informatics. There is also a great deal of work being performed with human genomes on the web. It appears to be based on biology, chemistry, math and computer programming. If you are good at any or all of those disciplines, might as well do something special... It is called bioinformatics... See Bioinformatics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
     
  5. b4cz28

    b4cz28 Active Member

  6. lawrenceq

    lawrenceq Member

    This is an area that I've spent a lot of time researching.

    I agree with AUTiger and the bunch on this one. When I was taking my SEO class at UCI last fall I noticed that most of the people in the class were copywriters, marketing reps or web designers.

    Austin Peay's Communications Arts BA/BS with the Internet Technology Specialization would be perfect.

    http://comm.apsu.edu/ba-bsprograms.html
     
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