<p>Are there any "easy" majors at UT where a reasonably bright student can do an average of 2 hours of homework a night, and get B's?</p>
<p>bumping. help needed for my kid considering UT.</p>
<p>No, there aren’t. Your kid should probably consider community college.</p>
<p>i’ve heard that RTF (Radio, Television, and Film) is a great major for people who don’t want to have too much work AND really enjoy making short films. a lot of the work related to the classes that RTF majors take consist of short film-making. however, considering that this major is part of the communications school, it might be a little difficult to get. the communications school at ut is one of the more competitive ones.</p>
<p>Psychology? Your kid should major in what he likes/loves not on what’s easy.</p>
<p>Some people think elementary education is an easy major. Or sociology. Not that these are easy at UT in particular, just that they have reputations for being easy majors in general.</p>
<p>Thanks for replies so far. She’s finishing up community college this semester, and has several diverse interests and isn’t sure what she wants to study. We just know she wouldn’t be happy dealing with more than a couple hours of homework a night on average, and wouldn’t settle for anything less than B’s.</p>
<p>haha don’t we all?</p>
<p>This is great.</p>
<p>Some majors will be easier than others, but if it doesn’t fit your child’s interest then it is not worth pursuing</p>
<p>Tell her to pick a major she wants to pursue. There is no real payoff if you choose a major based on its perceived degree of non-difficulty. Furthermore, good job prospects for “easy majors” are increasingly bleak. </p>
<p>Don’t we all want a job that’s easy, doesn’t require more than a couple hours of work a week, and pays well? Thankfully our capitalistic society does not work like that. </p>
<p>The school of education tends to be easier as a whole, the students there are not as strong. Some communications majors are also “easy”. Some of the liberal arts could be less challenging. Most natural sciences majors are “difficult” because they all require a certain amount of science, which tends to be harder.</p>
<p>I heard the M.R.S. degree is pretty easy. You should look into it.</p>
<p>I agree with the advice for her to study what she loves; I’ve been telling her that for years.</p>
<p>As for the value of a liberal arts degree, a lot of folks graduate with liberal arts degrees and then enter a totally different field, or the general “business world”. The UT diploma is what will remain.</p>
<p>Right now, she thinks she wants to study Criminal Justice. I’d rather see her study something she loves (like Marine Biology) at UT…than to go to a lesser school like Sam Houston State that specializes in C.J…only to find out in a couple years that she has zero interest in C.J.</p>
<p>I guess my real question is - how many hours a night of studying, on average, is required for a typical liberal arts major at UT, in order to get decent grades (like B’s)? 3 hours a night? 4 hours a night? 5? More than 5?</p>
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That depends on her ability. I know some people don’t do any work all semester, BS out a good paper at the end of term and make an A. Some other people are like me, who have to work hard to pull together a paper and make an A.</p>
<p>There isn’t a way to figure out out unless she actually take the class. </p>
<p>I disagree that a degree from UT will be worth that much more. UT degrees are common enough to not even get a wow factor. If you want your daughter to go to UT just so she can get a piece of 10X14 paper with UT’s seal on it, you’ve sorely mistaken. I know quite a few Harvard degree holders who are having trouble getting a job right now. Do you think people will look twice on a Texas BA degree with a 3.0 GPA?</p>
<p>You are right in that some people with liberal arts degree do go on to professional fields like business and law. But those aren’t B students! Investment banks (IB) and consulting firms do recruit liberal arts major, but not at UT. Bain (big 3 consulting) only recruits for LAH/P2 students, even then the placement is minimal. There’s probably 1, maybe 2, per year out of UT. To my knowledge no IB firm recruits at UT. IB recruiting happens at more prestigious East Coast, West Coast, or Chicago area schools. Others who go to T14 l-school are graduating near the top of the class.</p>
<p>You should let your daughter make her own decisions/mistakes. At the end of the day, I’m sure she’ll be happier studying what she likes. If you force her to do something she doesn’t, she might always wonder “what if”.</p>
<p>Actually, I know someone who is graduating this year and is doing IB and is going to work on Wall Street to start off and she is a a UT graduate. Then again, she might be one of those 1 or 2 students you are talking about. :\
But what I’m trying to say is that there is still hope for people who want to go into IB and also want to go to UT. You just have to work hard. :]</p>