Any "cool" and "exciting" majors out there?

College Search & Selection
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<p>international health(at Georgetown's School of Nursing and Health Studies)!</p>

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<p>At Penn you can get a Ph.D. in Folklore.</p>

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<p>You can get B.A.'s in Folklore (or myth and folklore, or something like that) from a few places. I know Harvard has a program like that, and one of the schools I looked at to come up with my list on the previous page has a folklore B.A. as well. </p>

<p>Personally, I would have LOVED to take that major -- but of course my school doesn't offer it. :P</p>

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<p>biopsychology!</p>

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<p>interior design is the coolest major out there! and one of the hardest.</p>

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<p>undecided - you're amused that people take Petroleum Engineering? Would it be less amusing if you knew that they start out at $60,000 per year? A lot end up as VPs of major oil companies. A lot of the other majors you listed are important also.</p>

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<p>if you live in texas, petroleum engineering probably isn't that out there a major at all</p>

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<p>Neuroscience! Tell me that does not sound fascinating....</p>

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<p>I like these:
Classics
Anthropology
Economics
Medieval Studies
East Asian Studies
Latin American Studies</p>

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<p>Operation Research and Financial Engineering.</p>

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<p>Biotechnology</p>

<p>(not new, but sounds cool)</p>

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<p>Jazz studies</p>

<p>Ethnomusicology</p>

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<p>I second the vote for neuroscience. I work at a public university and it's the next big thing here...well, that and nanotechnology.</p>

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<p>I'm not amused by the things people can do with majors, I'm amused at what people can choose to focus in. It is weird for me to think that there's enough to know about the peculiarities of petroleum engineering that you would major in that over some other type of engineering.</p>

<p>I realize all these majors exist because people feel there's enough material in them. It just amuses me that there really are people who would go into these fields during college (ie, would willingly pay $100,000 to learn such things). </p>

<p>Not trying to demean anything that's on my list. I actually think English and linguistics are "cool" and "exciting," but they're very common majors in addition to being useful in a variety of ways.</p>

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<p>information systems</p>

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<p>CLeighDrie: If you're fascinated w/neuroscience you would really like my high school. After ap bio we have 2 post-AP bio classes: neuroscience and dna science 1 & 2.</p>

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<p>archaeology
marine biology
forensic science</p>