Now I will be the first to say that you CAN make a lot of money with a business degree. I have a good friend / neighbor that triples my salary. He and his wife were engineers, but decided to go business after a semester or two or three.
That being said, business majors is probably the largest population of students known to every college. So the question I pose is, do you want to be a small fish in a big pond, or a big fish in a small pond? Being a straight A business student is honestly not very remarkable. There are TONS. You cannot say the same thing for engineering. GPA actually plays a much more significant part in your starting salaries for engineers relative to business majors.
As the biggest nerd I know, I would rather let my work speak for me than my possible social awkwardness impact me being hired!
| Management information systems | $66,117 |
| Actuarial science | $65,543 |
| Logistics/supply chain | $61,798 |
| Finance | $60,776 |
| Accounting | $59,884 |
| Marketing | $59,652 |
| Sales | $59,452 |
| Business administration/management | $59,514 |
| International business | $57,841 |
| Human resources | $57,357 |