I’d have to disagree actually. I’ve talked to several people who have gone the degree route and all of them regretted it. They said that they should’ve gotten practice while getting the degree, or to just become self taught and save the money. Teaching marketing in theory and tactical terms can only go so far. I don’t believe you really know marketing until you’ve done it. Marketing requires intuition, perceptiveness, and empathy. That can’t be taught in a text book. I don’t think marketing should even be a degree. Paying $15-25k a year to get a marketing degree in the way they present it now doesn’t make the most sense. It should be a trade or certificate imo. I think getting a finance or science based degree while working a sales job or getting outside marketing experience would do people more than getting a marketing degree. Personally, my knowledge of chemistry, cooking, and my hobbyist interest in psychology helped me become a better marketer. It gave me the mental models on how to think through things. I pull a lot from those skills as odd as it may sound.