The #1 College Major

[magicfame]

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Based on the number of college freshman who are making it their career choice, accounting is the new 'sexy' college major. Yes, accounting.

The top 10 most in-demand college majors:

1. Accounting
2. Electrical engineering
3. Mechanical engineering
4. Business administration/management
5. Economics/finance
6. Computer science
7. Computer engineering
8. Marketing/marketing management
9. Chemical engineering
10. Information sciences and systems

 

[Orsorum]

Woooooooooooooooooot.

<--- graduated with a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Accounting this last June, getting my masters in tax accounting this next year.

 

[nageov3t]

english lit FTWAL!

 

[OdiN]

Enter the daring world of chartered accountancy!!!! yay!

/me loves monty python

 

[zimu]

<--- starting postgraduate EE program next month. does postgrad count? am i cool?

 

[czech09]

Chemistry fo' life yo

 

[Baked]

No Liberal Arts major. No wonder people write like sh!t.

 

[ViRGE]

Something's fishy about that list, none of those are liberal arts fields.

 

[nageov3t]

I don't know why people are be excited about having the most popular major.

won't it lead to more people in your field, decreasing your personal value to your employer, lowering wages, and making new jobs within the field harder to find due to increased competition?

 

[MikeMike]

cuz he posted the most indemand majors, not the #1 major of ppl coming out of school

 

[EmperorIQ]

does anyone know the stats for # of people who actually not make it in their declared majors and went for something else half way through their college careers?

 

[Otaking]

I really thought Psychology would be up there.

Where's Linguistics? Boo.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: loki8481
I don't know why people are be excited about having the most popular major.

won't it lead to more people in your field, decreasing your personal value to your employer, lowering wages, and making new jobs within the field harder to find due to increased competition?

Not in tax accounting. Auditing's where the dilution will eventually happen.

 

[czech09]

I don't see Journalism up there and that seems to be a popular field as well lately.

 

[cjgallen]

I'd like to see the bottom 10 list

 

[ChaoZ]

<---- Accounting major

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
<---- Accounting major

Do you have a specialty chosen?

 

[slpaulson]

I'd like to know how many of those people drop out of Engineering.
It sure seems like a lot.

 

[ChaoZ]

Not yet. Hoping to get a part-time bookkeeping job while attending school and see how it goes from there.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Enter the daring world of chartered accountancy!!!! yay!

/me loves monty python

But I want to be a lion tamer!

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: magicfame

Based on the number of college freshman ...

Maybe half of those EE and CS freshman will graduate with a EE/CS degree. The other half will fail or end up with the rest of the washouts in Communications.

 

[chrisms]

I'm a Crop Science major, and the way I see it if everyone in the world was a crop scientist we would have no problems. If everyone was an accountant, I think we'd all just be adding up the minutes until our own demise.

 

[novasatori]

I'm now starting junior year of accounting. I really only got into it after taking Accounting I for a business degree, which I switched obviously.

Seemed more useful, guess I was right.

 

[MrCodeDude]

#2. Holler.

 

[cirthix]

woot for EEs!