Career prospects: Business degree

A year in industry does help as you will be graduating with some work experience / exposure which is an advantage over those without.

A Business Mgmt degree is broad and general but prepares you for most jobs which do not require specialist degrees, such as an economist, an actuarist, or a lawyer. The question only you can answer is what do you think you want to be in future? Are you aiming to be a professional economist? If not, it is unlikely an economics degree is going to be more useful than a business management degree in your future career. In fact, you may be better prepared for the real world than someone with an economics degree because of the broad exposure of the business degree.

A business management course is similar in breadth as an MBA, if that is an indication for you of its relevance to industry.

Not good if that is the best institution you can get to.

If you can't get A's and B's in A levels you would be better off saving your £££ and going and joining a business, learning a specialism and then looking to add specialist education if you find you need it to progress later on.

Why on earth are you considering a joint honours degree ?

If it is so interesting what is stopping you buying a book and reading that, watching a few series of Dragons Den and getting yourself heavily involved with Crowdfunding etc ?

Of course a joint honours degree is more work unless it is some Mickey Mouse course which TBH it sounds to me like it is as I have no idea how you can fill up a three year degree with "entrepreneurship" ....

I don't agree with the fella above.

Bright people with good interpersonal and reasoning skills get jobs relatively easily. There is no way the vast majority of employers would automatically favour a Business/Management degree over and above an Economics degree.

I already do those hobbies listed and have started a number of small businesses. I would like to learn more about the entrepeneurship side of business, not only because it's interesting but this is my passion. Just done some research and found that joint honours is the same amount of work as a normal degree. Instead of studying whole of business management course,you're studying half and half.


So what do you study/ have studied?

Hi

I'm interested in studying a joint honours degree: Business Management with Entrepreneurship at Nottingham Trent University.

Just interested to know what the chances of getting a job are with a business degree. I have heard that a degree in business is 'looked down upon' and is 'too general'.

Also, would a joint honours degree be more or less work and would a joint honours degree be more attractive for future employers?

Many universities offer 'a year in industry' is this worth doing? any experience?

Cheers x

Hi

I'm interested in studying a joint honours degree: Business Management with Entrepreneurship at Nottingham Trent University.

Just interested to know what the chances of getting a job are with a business degree. I have heard that a degree in business is 'looked down upon' and is 'too general'.

Also, would a joint honours degree be more or less work and would a joint honours degree be more attractive for future employers?

Many universities offer 'a year in industry' is this worth doing? any experience?

Cheers x

I did a Business degree at Aston.

IMHO "entrepreneurship" should simply be an elective course module within a business degree but hey students are being shafted by the system so what do you do ?

IMHO "entrepreneurship" should simply be an elective course module within a business degree