Should I finish my Senior year at my current school with a degree in HTM or transfer and get a business degree

Question

So basically the story is that I was attending Umass where I was on the soccer team, and going into my senior year while getting a degree in Hospitality Tourism Management (HTM). I basically originally wanted to major in Management or Finance, but since the business school there wouldn’t let me in even with a 3.5 GPA and the fact that I already was a junior I settled on majoring in HTM and right now I’m 9 classes away from graduating on time this year. Anyway, soccer sort of fell through with the coaches this year, and I have the opportunity to transfer into Rutgers at the last minute and I’ve already got accepted into the business school and can major in either Management or Finance and get a degree in business. The thing is I would have to go to school an extra year. So my situation basically is do I go back to Umass where all my friends are, it’s a fun school, and graduate on time with an HTM degree or do I go to Rutgers and get a business degree, but live at home and go to school for an extra year. The thing is I sort of know the smart thing to do is to go to Rutgers and get a better degree that will probably open up more opportunities for me, but at the same time I really want to go back to Umass and be around my friends and finish up after this year. The thing is I know HTM has a reputation for being kind of a joke degree, and I now I have an opportunity where only one more extra year of school may pay off in the long run. Any advice from anyone?

Answer 1

HTM may have a reputation at UMass for being a joke degree, but that isn't true elsewhere, and it won't hurt you in the long run. My "joke" degree got me into a top-20 MBA program, then the top Ph.D. program in my business field, which I then topped off with a J.D. from the university where I am now a faculty member. It won't hurt you.

My advice would be to finish up. It won't keep you from getting a job anywhere in business - most of my undergrad classmates are no longer working in the industry, but the fact that they had college degrees with training in some of the business basics allowed them to get jobs elsewhere. I would finish, and instead of using the extra year to switch majors, use it (preferably not immediately) to get an MBA.

Answer 2

Do you have non loan economic help at UMASS. I could desire to anticipate in case you get carry of dumped from the team, your no longer getting an athletic scholarship? If Rutgers is is providing you with an athletic scholarship for this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days and an determination for next 3 hundred and sixty 5 days nicely then thats a unfastened degree at a extra advantageous college in a extra marketable container. as nicely one extra 3 hundred and sixty 5 days of faculty means and extra suitable 3 hundred and sixty 5 days of partying and school life, new buddies, new romances, etc. Who says you are able to desire to stay at homestead the two you are able to desire to basically as easily proceed to exist campus on account that i anticipate your athletic furnish might pay that. My basically situation may be if for some reason you weren't executed on the top of the extra suitable 3 hundred and sixty 5 days on account which you basically have 5 years (10 semesters of eligibility) so in case you probably did no longer graduate on time you are able to desire to no longer do soccer.