Business Majors: How many concentrations can/should you do?

Anonymous

Hi, does anyone know how many concentrations you're allowed to do in Business?  I've heard of people doing 2 or 3 but can you do 4?  There are 4 concentrations that really interest me and I would like to concentrate in all of them, is that possible?  Also, would doing more concentrations dilute you're expertise in one concentration?  For example, would a student that concentrates in Accounting only be more specialized than a student who concentrates in Accounting, Finance, International Business, and MIS?

Annie

You might want to talk to someone in Business for advice -- looks like they have soemthing called "Spark sessions":

 

http://beedie.sfu.ca/spark/

Anonymous

It's your, not you're. One would think that a university (or university-ready) student would know and appreciate the difference.

To answer your question, there is no upper limit but you'd be wasting your time in doing more concentrations when you're obviously only going to work in one field when you graduate. 

Not sure what you mean by dilution, because you have to complete every single required course and doing more concentrations does not waive you from concentration prerequisites. 

Anonymous

Thanks for the answers. 

By the way, I'm pretty sure I used "you're" correctly.  I could have broken up the contraction and made it "...you are allowed to take..." and that would make sense, so why wouldn't "...you're allowed to take.." be wrong?

Anonymous

"Also, would doing more concentrations dilute you're expertise in one concentration?"

Anonymous

is the grammar nazi trolling? 

Anonymous

How is he trolling? All his points are legitimate.

Anonymous

thank you for the clarification, annonymous hey 

Anonymous

Let's get back to the topic...

I wouldn't worry about which/how many areas to concentrate in just yet, since you will be required to take the introduction courses anyway. So just wait to see what you like after taking BUS 251 & 254 (accounting), BUS 312 (finance), BUS 237 (MIS), etc. The only areas that don't have required introductory courses are entrepreneurship & innovation, international business, and operations management.

I hope that helps.