ADE or Law: Which Degree Doesn't Guarantee a Decent Salary

ADE or Law: The Syllabus, the Connections, and the Salary

Is a Business Administration (ADE) degree harder than a Law degree? People answer with faith. Some point to statistics and cost accounting as the real challenge. Others reply that Law is "more serious" and that practicing law without contacts is a wasteland. Neither degree, on its own, guarantees a decent salary, according to the debate.

Is ADE as easy as they say?

One view holds that ADE can be learned in a short course and doesn't even reach the level of a vocational qualification. The exaggeration is misleading. According to one participant, a graduate who doesn't master statistics, econometrics, cost accounting, and programming is left without arguments against economists, who come with more hours of math and are direct competitors. According to another, the only case he knows of someone who got an ADE degree without a double major did so while watching two movies a day.

The data changes depending on effort. Those who get serious about Excel, statistics, and programming gain, according to this account, a skill that can be sold outside Spain. Those who don't, don't. And it can be completed in four or five years, which doesn't say much about its real difficulty.

Why is Law said to be more serious than ADE?

The claim is made by a double degree graduate, and it was left half-finished. His argument: Law teaches you to write—a skill that, in his opinion, is lacking—allows you to sit public exams for almost any position and, combined with ADE, makes it easier to pass the tax office exams. The fine print is uncomfortable. It's also recalled that Law includes economics and accounting, albeit financial rather than cost accounting.

And some point out that its difficulty is largely artificial: a simple idea—administrations must cooperate with each other—is stretched to a 40-page topic with invented nuances, decorative Latin, and absurd rulings. Intellectually minor, they say, but complicated on purpose.

The Labor Market Decides the Match

The hard blow isn't curricular, it's salary. According to the calculation circulating, practicing lawyers have between a 0% and 10% chance of living well. Without connections at a good firm, the prognosis worsens: hunger, according to another participant. Their skills, moreover, are barely exportable; those of a business profile are.

The double degree is presented as a fast track to public exams. The Law degree, on the other hand, allows you to pass it between drunkenness and drunkenness, according to one testimony. Behind it comes the market, which doesn't forgive.

What About Engineering?

Here the consensus widens. Engineering is hell, concedes someone who later did ADE. It's the only degree that several acknowledge as truly hard, and it also dismantles the narrative that all degrees demand the same. In Law, the problem isn't difficulty, it's tedium.

Some started at 36 for pleasure and soon lost the desire. He sums it up: he doesn't know what studying is.

In the end, the answer depends on whether one wants to pass or eat. ADE prepares you to sell, Law to take public exams, and neither guarantees the main course.