What degree to take?
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hi. i want to be like steve jobs, bill gates, richard branson, or any rich powerful business leader. what degree should i take?
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Branson didn't go to University.
Jobs dropped out of college after one term.
Gates did Computing at Harvard.
So what does that tell you? Nothing. One of them has a degree and that was from the best university in the world (though MIT is better for computing).
What they do have in common is an entrepreneurial spirit which cannot be taught. You're either born with it or your not so the answer is; there is no degree that will automatically make you a successful businessman.
I'm taking Business and Entrepreneurship atm and for the first year I was forced to take "Creativity and Innovation" as part of the entrepreneurship bit. Quite frankly, it was the biggest load of utter bollocks I have ever had to sit through in my entire life.
Just do something you're good at it and use the theories and whatnot to make yourself successful.
:yes: you might find our article - be an entrepreneur - helpful
Yet I also have friends who got great degrees from Oxford and Cambridge who can't get a job for love nor money (though some of them think that just by going to Oxbridge gets you a job).
Entrepreneurial spirit and your degree are generally mutually exclusive.
Business Studies will teach you how to identify good and bad companies. More precisely it will teach you how to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of companies, markets and suchlike. Though I am in my second year of Business Studies at a rubbish uni and so far I've learnt fuck all about the stock market and trading companies, but I could identify which companies I would invest in.
Probably a business degree that teaches you corporate finance. Loughborough is very good for financial degrees.
Im probs rambling, gd luck by the way
There very probably are, but the big financial institutions need people who have some experience, and doing a degree with a year in business is becoming more important as it teaches you the knowledge you need.
Though you, and the other posters, are right- entrepeneurship cannot be taught, you either have it or you don't. And even if you are talented it doesn't guarantee success- whilst Gates and Branson are talented businessmen, so are lots of other people, and luck really is an important ingredient.