Deadzone, my youngest is currently an undergrad Bus Admin/Acct major at a CSU and the Bus Dept is coaching all the students in this program to combine it with a Masters specialty or at the very least, combine it with one other (of the 8 available CSU business fields) to be the most competitive in the job market after graduation. A second field (minor) for a Bachelor of Science degree in Bus Admin involves taking only 7-11 additional units (which could be taken in the summer).
During the Masters (5th) year in Acct, the CSU degree candidate buys the (deeply discounted thru the school) study material for the state CPA exam and the bus dept offers workshops on preparing the Master’s candidate to take the exam.
The CSU has become very “occupational” in its priorities and programs offered to bachelor candidates and fluid in their course offerings as to the changing job market. I believe they are truly endeavoring to graduate as many students as possible in four years (or five with an occupational specialty). Gone are the days in the CSU admitting HS students who are not ready to do college-level work and allowing too many undergrads into programs where the program’s advisors cannot adequately monitor the progress of its students.
Hence, the swift “impaction” you see in most of the CSU’s occupational majors, varying by campus. As failing and/or withdrawing undergrads are weeded out of the programs every semester/quarter, spaces open for those qualified undergrads who are waitlisted to enter the program.
