In order to help a high school student to choose a best college for him or her, it is better to choose a major first. I did a little research on popular majors for college students in U.S.A recently, so as to provide a reference to a student on choosing a right major.
Bachelor’s degree
Business includes Business Administration and Management, which is the most popular selected major, finance, marketing, and accounting, which has a high demand right out of college.
Social sciences and history includes anthropology, economics, geography, and political science, which is a broad major that will require an area of concentration. Some choices are voting behavior, public policy, statistics, campaigns, and diplomat.
Education is a popular major targeting on becoming K-12 classroom teachers. Areas cover math, sciences, foreign language, music and industrial arts etc.
Psychology is a major, which studies people and their behaviors, can be help for many fields beside psych. Such as human resources, public relations, market research, sales and so on.
Nursing major serves hospitals, schools, corporations, military, nursing homes and clinics. Due to population’s growing and aging leading to the severe shortage of nurses, students graduated from this major are pretty much guaranteed a job.
Communications major is commonly known as Mass Communications. Specializations could be print journalism, advertising copywriting, web content development, television production, public relations and so on.
Biology majors do a lot of research and development and work in a laboratory or the field. Whether the student is interested in trees, microbes or medicine, this field is wide open. Genetics, biotechnology, and medical research are fields are the popular ones. Many move on to become biochemists, environmentalists, optometrists or veterinarians. Common employers of biology majors include hospitals, national & state parks, universities, pharmaceutical companies, research firms, aquariums and zoos.
Engineering majors include Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical engineering, which need math and science courses.
For higher degrees, the ranks changed by the Education Statistics from U.S. Department of Education, National Center.
Master’s degree
Education, Business, Engineering
Doctor’s degree
Education, Engineering, Health professions and related clinical sciences, Biological and biomedical sciences, Psychology
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Saturday August 16th, 2008 at 08:03 PM