3 Degrees That Pay Big
By Jennifer Merritt
Business Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., is a professor of marketing at Stetson University's School of Business Administration and author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Choosing a College Major." One piece of advice he always doles out is that every college student should at least minor in business.
"No matter what field you go into after college, you'll be working for an organization that either is a businessor interacts with business," Hansen says. "Having basic business skills will help a premed student as well as a science or journalism major."
Should you decide to major in business, you'll be in good company. Business is one of the top degrees graduates earn, with 307,000 bachelor's degrees awarded in 2004, according to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
A 2007 Michigan State University survey of businessrecruiting trends found that 66 percent of the 864 companies polled intend to hire new employees right out of college. Recent grads illustrate this stat well.
Those who held a business degree in 2007 found themselves entering a job market where initial job offers increased over 2006, with business administration and management majors, for example, seeing average starting salary offers rise 3.9 percent to $43,701, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) quarterly Salary Survey.
In pursuing this degree, students can expect to attend classes in marketing, management skills and ethics. Musttake classes are international courses such as global marketing, international business or multinational
finance, according to Hansen.
"No one can escape working in the global economy, so it's good to get some basic understanding of how it operates," he says.
Please contact Mr. Hoff at 3283650 or hoffdr@d11.org if you have any questions about the Business Education Department here at Coronado.
Source: http://spotlight.encarta.msn.com/Features/
encnet_Departments_CareerTraining_default_article_CurrencyExchange.html?GT1=27001
