So when it comes to getting a job at a Japanese company and a visa. Which degree would be more useful or improve your chances. Would it be a Business Admin degree or Sociology degree? I know the Sociology degree is really popular in the states, but I don’t know if Japan cares about those or not.
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**Which Degree Is More Useful for Visa: Business Admin or Sociology?**
So when it comes to getting a job at a Japanese company and a visa. Which degree would be more useful or improve your chances. Would it be a Business Admin degree or Sociology degree? I know the Sociology degree is really popular in the states, but I don’t know if Japan cares about those or not.
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Sociology degrees aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. Business Admin, slightly less so.
Neither of these are particularly bad, what really matters when a company decides to hire an entry level employee are other experiences (internships, volunteering, personal projects for a portfolio, hard skills).
What exactly do you want to do? You’re much better starting with a general career path in mind and working backwards. For example, if you’re interested in market research then either of these degrees could be applicable.
I’ve always wondered why sociology even can be a degree
Business administration is much more useful and popular than sociology.
STEM would be the best choice.
If you are from a developed English speaking country(such as the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, NZ) and just want to be an English teacher, your degree doesn’t matter.
BBA will take you a hell of a lot further. It’s about as good as a traditional degree in business, or economics. Both business admin and sociology degrees will be exactly the same in the eyes of immigration so don’t consider the visa. The BBA will open more doors for you and get you a job faster, with better working conditions, at a higher pay rate.
Learning Japanese will be much more important than your choice of degree
STEM or nothing
With either of those you’re going to need near native level Japanese, so I’d say you want to worry about that more than anything. Also, you should ask yourself what you want to do with your life, not what will “get you to Japan”.
This will not really matter. Which university you went to and other experiences will matter more. For Japan particularly, your level of Japanese will be decisive.
If you want a real answer both are useless without very good japanese skills