/biz/ - Business & Finance

Math PHD

depends what you mean by valuable

I'd study the hell out of Astrobiology with a minor in Philosophy if I wasn't more concerned about money.

SON or DAU from the University of Rich Parents Who Provide a Trust Fund

MD

Finance Degree from a top 10 Uni.

MD, JD from top 10 school, MBA from top 5 school

>>49864
eheh

>>49861
celsius

The one with the highest tuition rate. Technically.

>>49934
ur a cheeky cunt m8

BA Political Science - because it's what I have and i am the most important person ever.

>inb4 autist

Assuming you're not going to a top school (because you're not), engineering. Especially EE or Chem.

>>49905
this.

Valuable in what? Terms of money?

CS, Finance, MBA, Math

In no specific order.

>most valuable degree

Top school medical degree

>realistic degree for a hard worker
STEM + business or STEM + STEM grad degree

>>49995

If you didn't go to a top 20 university, that is 100% worthless.

Is computer engineering decent? I'll be graduating with that degree in a few months.
Also how important is it to learn stuff in school vs learning on the job. Been applying for stuff lately and the job descriptions sound pretty intimidating.

None, if you have the talent and drive to apply yourself. But if you must have a college degree, psychology or whatever's the easiest/fastest thing to get. If you know your stuff, employers don't care what you have.

>>50361

>top medical school degree

You won't earn a huge salary ($300k+) unless you're in the top 5% of surgeons.

>>50378
I got a computer science degree and after a few months break (re: existential crisis) I managed to get a job in about 2 months. Just sign up on LinkedIn and other classified sites and people will start coming to you pretty regularly. The demand for positions like software or computer engineering are still pretty high.

Don't apply for something you're not qualified for (ie they ask for certification and you don't have it) but if a job description asks for a year or two of experience, that's fine, apply anyway. It helps if you've done internships with other firms, but are by no means a dealbreaker.

If a company wants you but expects you to know their esoteric bullshit corporate policy/culture without ever having worked for them before, you don't want to work with them.

>>50438

I wanted to get a CS degree, but I slacked off in high school. Do you think I could attend a community college for a year or two, then transfer to a better University?

>>50411
If you get to that stage as well, it's not massively uncommon for the stress to get to you and you to end up with a few serious malpractice suits against you.

>>50471
Yes.
This is exactly what I did.

>>50484

Heh. What Uni did you attend?

>>50411
Hence, top school degree.

>>50471
If you have the time to wait it out, why not?

You're not going to put on your resume "two years of community college and then a 'real' university". You're going to say you got a "degree in CS from accredited university X".

And really, that's all the employer wants to see. There are some people out there who have programmed since leaving the womb and they've got way more experience, but employers want that piece of mind to know that the person they're hiring isn't some hobo off the street.

>>50504
>piece of mind

>>50491
Oregon State

>>50519
How's that BA in lit working out for you?

>>49861
There's isn't just one.

depends on circumstances

>>50519
Anon it is 4 in the morning and I do not have work tomorrow/today. Calm your tits.

>>50411
This statistic always amuses me, because my 86 year old grandmother makes more than that and all she has is a high school diploma and some nurse's training that she never had to use.

>>50411
Except almost nobody is; that's why I put a more realistic achievement down.

>>50552

Going to call bullshit.

Most 86 year olds can't even walk, let alone make $300k.

A good degree of the total gold in the world.

Is nursing worth anything good in terms of salary, or will I be making shit tier money living at home?

please respond

>>50597

Depends what kind of schooling.

My sister is a nurse. She makes $60k a year, but being a nurse is extremely stressful.

Ever have an AIDS patient cough blood onto your face?

>>50597
My sister is a naval nurse, they paid for her schooling and she's more or less zipping around the country now. She's making as much if not more than I do.

Like >>50614
said though it's not for the weak of heart

>>50614
I can see that being terrifying, but as long as
>no open wounds on face
>doesn't get in your eyes
>doesn't get in your mouth
>doesn't somehow enter any other membranes accessible through the face
She should have been fine.

is a finance degree worth it?

>>50614
>>50625
Schooling would be a BScN from university, I'd be fine with it being stressful and all, in addition to some funny stuff. At clinical, some kid asked me when his "small pee-pee will fall off and the big one will grow."

I guess I'm in the clear then, thanks guys.

>>50647

If top 20 school, yes.

Expect to work your ass off though. There's a reason why there's been like 5 Morgan Stanley employees offing themselves in the past month.

>>49888
Pro-tip: Everyday work in that field is nowhere near what you imagine it is, and you'll find after years of studying it, sweating over it and struggling with it you lose sight of the idealism that led you to it in the first place leaving you without a clue what you're doing, why you're doing it, or if you'll ever care about the subject again.

Anything from a CHYMPS university.

>>50650
Have fun.

Well, assuming you're a dude. There aren't a lot of you guys in the field.

>>49861
petrochemical engineering

>>49861
I thought this girl was like half slav, and half mongol

>>50679
You mean finnish

>>50679
I'll rename it half-asian girl then

>>50700
>You mean finnish

>>50706
Name it whatever you want broseph

Organic chemistry. Make drugs and explosives.

>>50679
So, all Mongol.

Is an econ minor worth anything? I ask because I don't know what minor to take with a history degree and did quite a bit of Economics and Business in HS. Figured it might be helpful later on

http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014/majors-that-pay-you-back
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>>50758
Minors in general are worth little to nothing. But if you are set on doing one, do business of some sort. Not econ.

http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014/majors-that-pay-you-back
Check it

>>50776

I'm in Canada for my degree (studying abroad), Econ is under the arts faculty and is very easy to get a minor in. Commerce (business) is a different faculty and so would be much harder to get a minor in purely from a bureaucratic point of view. It would also have a math requirement

>>50772
Government and IR (which are both political science) are always way higher than you'd think.

>>50783
Unless you want to just for your own 'enjoyment' don't bother.

>>50782
see
>>50784

I notice that they also divide up certain areas of study into too many different pieces which really aren't that different.

Its definitely got to be art history with a minor in basket weaving

>>50833
Don't listen to this guy
>not underwater basketweaving

>>50847
we are talking about undergrad only brah

underwater basket weaving grad programs are on a whole nother level of ballin'

>>50866
>this faggot without a PhD in umbrella opening.

Enjoy your minimum wage job.

>>50670
Only correct answer in the entire thread.

>>50872

Jokes on you for posting that poverty degree. we don't post jobs on here that make less than 300k and that don't offer you golden parachute retirement packages....

women's studies masterrace checking in... enjoy your poverty degree goals of 2014 phaggots!!!

>>50635
that's like 30% of face surface area

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Fisher_Program_in_Management_and_Technology

Undergrad degree from Wharton. Double in Engineering and Business. Best network in the world. Best hard technical skills in the world. Best on campus recruiting in the world.

My uni is usually ranked in the top 30s when it comes to their MBA program, but everyone tells me only MBAs from the top 5 schools are worth it. Should I go for it anyways? Money isn't an issue.

>>50970

Depends what your goals are. Like, private equity firms basically only recruit at Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and maybe a few other schools, but that applies to ~3,000 in the United States. If you wanted to work at McKinsey or something, then you're fine with any top-10 school. There are legit reasons to go to a local school if you're trying to stay within a specific region of the country, the degree isn't too expensive, etc..

Like, why do you want to get an MBA?

>>50758
>Is an econ minor worth anything? I ask because I don't know what minor to take with a history degree and did quite a bit of Economics and Business in HS. Figured it might be helpful later on

History grad student here. The more you know about economics, the better. If you study modern history, some professor is eventually going to make you read volume 1 of Capital, so more economics knowledge will help a shit-ton.

Chemistry. Do you fucking know how much meth is worth in Australia right?!

Value is a subjective term and you need to be more specific.

If we are talking aliens invaded and we could only take 1000 people off the planet to form a new civilization. Anyone with a finance degree would be last, but a finance type degree is pretty much the most worthwhile degree if you like working hard and making money.
I hope

>>51011
>why do you want to get an MBA?

Because all of the cool kids are doing it

>>51192
I'm a retard, what does MBA stand for?

>>51215
Masters of Business Administration

>>51136
>Chemistry. Do you fucking know how much meth is worth in Australia right?!

I've got no idea. Is it less than MDMA? I'm sick of paying $30 for a point.

Get a degree in what this guy has...

http://instagram.com/danbilzerian

>>51346
Meth usage is through the roof right now in Australia. There's was a media outburst a week ago.

Most of it was about Uni students and professors using it to study harder.

Bachelor of Arts....

>>49864

/thread

I'm starting Oxford PPE this year, how would you rank it?

>>49861

Genderqueer studies and oppressed minorities.

>>50946

THIS. Every guy I knew who came out of this ended up somewhere good. If you graduate Summa Cum Laude, even Mckinsey and Blackstone will have kneel down and suck your balls

>>50402
>thinks psychology is an easy degree

Has anyone here actually taken psychology?

Its probably more difficult than most degrees:
>cognitive neuroscience
>neurodevelopmental science
>statistics

Unless you study a science or medicine degree, you won't understand shit, and probably can't read a single academic journal

>>49861
best degree to hold is women studies

>>51519
Is that really oxford?

>>49861
Any degree from ITT Tech. I hear from all the multicolored people on the tele that it's the best school ever.

>>50654
what is this reason?

I figured it was probably just murder by a coworker or manager, framed as suicide.

Why would anyone in the top 1% of earners globally commit suicide. He could just retire and still be rich as fuck.

You wanna see hard work? Go to any chinese plantation where 13 y/os are doing 18 hour days for .3$, 7 days a week for 60 years

>>51620
you mean Phoenix University? Heard that place is legit. I heard about it from a commercial while watching Maury.

that girl is so fucking annoying. They way she poses and smiles, it's like "AM I KAWAII UGUU??? PEOPLE MUST THINK I'M SOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL WITH THIS CUTE SMILE"

stop posting her

>>51391
Lol, that guy has a pretty interesting life. Just so you know, he's had 3 heart attacks by the age of 30.

>>51683
Well if you think it's cute then it worked

>>51609

>more difficult than most degrees

I don't think so jeff

the only people you are beating out in terms of difficulty are women's studies and art history majors

finance PhD

-hardest doctorate to get into because of lack of spots
-guaranteed job in academia
-guaranteed $500k/yr private sector job

>>51609
>statistics
Life-sciences statistics are a fucking joke.

>>51616
Yes, it is. [spoiler] In fact, Balliol has a reputation as the best college for PPE.

>>51616
Yes, it is. [spoiler] In fact, Balliol has a reputation as the best college for PPE

>>51616
Yes, it is. In fact, Balliol has a reputation as the best college for PPE

Computer Science with a double major in Mathematics

/thread

>>51519
Dude I think I know you.

Anyway yes you made a good choice.