Asians have an inherirant belief that they are to follow the commerce tradition. Asians follow their asian friends. Hence a lot of people doing commerce.
This is not a troll post btw
This is somewhat true.
Nevertheless, in the end, "Asians" (or really their parents) tend to prefer the 'safer' options/degrees. This means Commerce tends to be only a back-up course and they'd much prefer to do something like Medicine or Dentistry.
I remember my mum telling me how the (Asian) GP, which she visits, complained about her older son, who went into Engineering, and is glad that her younger son wants to go into Medicine. Apparently the GP told my mum that "yeah he can suffer if he wants" (referring to her older son). I was just laughing when my mum told me this
Until this very day, my parents still preferred if I did Dentistry or Medicine (instead of what I'm doing right now - Business/Law). But they've accepted that I just like/am more passionate about what I'm doing right now more than those courses.
A lot of people are going to be very disappointed.
It happens in some other degrees as well, especially Law (being disappointed due to unrealistic expectations).
However, due to the fierce competition in those degrees, I think commerce or law students are ultimately more prone to disappointment than lets say medical students.
Because it's the go-to degree for people who have no idea what they want to do but still want to be somewhat employable.
Basically this.
If you don't have any specific interests and weren't the most spectacular student, it seems like commerce is the 'go-to degree' like Crobat says.
Many of my friends/relatives, who had no idea what they wanted to do, just went into Business/Commerce or combined Commerce in the end.
