I have seen the good advice multiple times that we should be checking out majors for current athletes in the sport our kids are interested in at a school. How does one find this info? The several college sites I have been on don’t list this information. It seems like this is important for targeting a school so we should figure it out before we start visiting, etc.
Try going to the team page which will have the roster with short bio’s.
Yes, that’s where I was. No majors listed so far! I wasn’t sure if there was another spot.
Some schools list them on the rosters, others only if they are part of the student’s profile. Another place I’ve found some are on the conference honors page (and sometimes those are the original major, not updated ).
In addition to what’s been mentioned: sometimes changing the roster view, if that’s an option on the site, will show additional info like that; sometimes it’ll show on the individual profiles; reviewing the news feed on the team site for school or conference academic honors can be revealing. But all this will be hit or miss as many programs don’t publish this info. If the concern is whether certain lab-heavy majors will work with the sport, that’s pretty easy for a recruit to bring up in conversations with the coach.
I was about to say the same thing. This would be the best way, IMO.
In terms of the roster, even if the college publishes that info, it is often subject to change, and freshmen (and sometimes sophomores) may have no major listed since they have yet to declare one.
On the other hand, if a school does list majors, and 27 of the 28 players list engineering as their major (Colorado School of Mines men’s soccer), you can be pretty sure that any major is okay - as long as it’s engineering!
I’ve really not heard of kids who are academically capable not being able to major in anything they want to. There were 7 nursing majors on a team in our conference, and these were top athletes.
The higher the level of the sport/NCAA division combo, the more likely majors are limited, practically speaking…nothing is typically formally prohibited. Coaches are the best ones to speak with about any major constraints and practicalities.
As an example, athletes from many teams in Power 5 conferences miss a lot of school and/or scheduling doesn’t allow late afternoon and early evening classes/labs/review sessions…which takes certain majors off the table. I recently had this conversation with an AO at an SEC school…feedback was for many of the athletes/sport teams engineering would not work, nor would honors college, nor would lab majors…AO recommended said [academically strong] student look elsewhere or expect to attend two additional years after academic eligibility is up.
For OP, both Purdue and IU list majors in players’ bios for some teams…it’s really eye opening to see the patterns of predominant majors (look only at juniors/seniors). My son’s baseball coach played at IU and said he basically had a choice of about 8 majors.
Jonathan Taylor at U of Wisconsin, up for the Heisman, is a philosophy major and very smart. Another player (can’t remember his name but he scored 2 touchdowns) is a chemE/computer science double major.
I guess you just have to find the right team and a coach who believes in you athletically and academically.