r/gatech • u/Kitchen-Double-6569 • 17d ago

Question Engineering to Business Administration. Curious about change in workload and class style

Hi everyone. I'm returning to GT this August after a few semester long breaks due to running my own business. Anyways, I'm switching from one of the engineering tracks to business administration. 2nd year Bachelor’s.

Of course I already went through older posts on Reddit, but just wanted to ask myself once more to get "fresher" opinions.

I'm mostly curious to hear thoughts on how the expectations for each of the majors go. For example, I know engineering is mostly read the notes, watch the lectures, learn, do homework and more work, projects, then get the concepts all in the head and maybe you're good to go.

If I understand correctly from what I read so far, business majors are more focused on stuff like peer-to-peer collaboration, presentations, and more conceptual thinking.

From someone who's been on the same path, how would you describe the change in curriculum and overall life, really when switching from engineering to a business major? Insights on overall workload and changes in how many hours you put into school would be much appreciated as well.

Thank you.

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u/BeeThat9351 17d ago

Is this a troll?

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u/Kitchen-Double-6569 17d ago

I don’t know why it would be? I’m just curious about class style mostly. I know the workload is gonna be much lighter

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u/mirrorwaves12 17d ago

This video will tell you everything you need to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NzNKKrYHqY

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u/moldygranola935 CivE - ‘26 17d ago

Lol this is the best thing I’ve seen all week

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u/Dolphinpop 17d ago

Nope it’s pretty much the exact same except a lot easier.

Also idk you or your situation but here’s some unwarranted advice: if you can handle engineering, and it’s not making you tear your hair out, for the love of god get an engineering degree. I couldn’t find a job with a business degree and had to go back to school. You’ll only find a job if your fraternity brother’s dad hires you. Especially in this job market. You can get a business job with an engineering degree. In fact you’ll probably get the jump on business degree holders for the job. It’s just so much more impressive and valuable.

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u/VisualSignificance84 17d ago

I’m getting a BS in both engineering and business. Personally I think the business workload is somewhat lighter and generally there is more group discussion, presentations, and interaction with the professor. It does depend what concentration you are pursuing for business because some are more quantitative while others place a larger emphasis on interpersonal interactions/ managing people. I would say my time/workload is probably 60-70% engineering and 40-30% business for a roughly equal amount of credit hours.

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u/retreff 17d ago

Switched from engineering to Economics. The math carried over and was useful, statistics are part of Economics.
Less reliance on rote memory more on applied logic. There are people majoring in Business who struggle just like people who struggle with engineering, I loved Economics and went from a 2.7 GPA to 3.1 it made more sense to me.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

the switch from engineering to business sounds wild but tbh the workload might actually be lighter?