What do you think? Management or Marketing? (skills, degree, school)

[sharingan99]

i have recently decided to go back to school for my BBA and i am having a hard time choosing between Management and Marketing. I do like thinking and brainstorming but i also like the idea of running projects and delegating tasks. im not really strong in math and when i looked at the syllabi, project management amd production management have some math as well as a finance class that i plan on taking. I really dont want to fail but i am scared about the math. the things that i saw off the top of my head were things sucks as quantitative models b c and d as well as linear programming scattergrams and histograms. So am i overthinking this and stick with management? or should i change to something more creative such as marketing?

ps. i dont know if it is true but i read somewhere that the marketing degree doesnt allow much room for advancement . is this true?

[Rawkfist]

What type of career are you currently in? This might indicate what you should do. I've honestly never seen the value of a marketing degree. It seems like that the most people who do it can't find jobs, unless they are the commission sales type...very sketchy.

Also, management is considered a bit of a soft major...but I think it's better than marketing. I've found my management classes much more useful. It's actually the only class that has actually helped me in interviews.

I am in an operations management/production management program right now. There is a lot of math, so unless you have an inclination towards it, I wouldn't do it. According to my advisor, many people in the program switch because the math is tough.

But do you think you can do the math? It's not that bad...just takes a lot of work.

[robertpolyglot]

Can't you do both or design your own major? I don't think there's a lot of math, such as calculus. You might see statistics, but that's algebraic, for the most part.

With about 6 free electives, you could do 3 and 3 from each topical area. Management and marketing are both soft majors, both conceptual and lacking in technical skills.

[scorpio516]

I'm a little biased, as my MBA's concentration is in operations/production management. Management can be VERY math/stats based. Or it can be totally fluff (HR Mgmt). I did have to take about 3 stats classes, and no real math, as grad level math is wicked hard and WAY beyond what is needed in business.

My undergrad degree in Architecture needed a whole lot more math than any business degree. And architecture needs nothing compared to any hard science or engineering.

[RedRage]

If you're referring to management as in operations management or supply chain management, then I would recommend this over marketing. What I have noticed in college is many students mistake marketing to be where you sit in a room and brainstorm new ideas on how to market products and what not. Although this may be true, all the opportunities I see in marketing are mostly sales and that's it.

SCM/operations is heavy in Excel and you have to be able to manipulate formulas and crunch data and make it meaningful and presentable. I wouldn't worry so much about the math as I imagine you've taken Calculus courses. As far as I know, basic math and stats are involved in SCM but nothing too hardcore.

In short, SCM/Operations Management >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Marketing