<p>Coste’s tongue-in-cheek post is pretty much my feelings.</p>
<p>What were the “facts” about anthropology, psychology, languages, and journalism that made you change your minds?</p>
<p>It seems that you are particularly focused on salaries and average employment rates of majors, which can be misleading. For example, a psychology major who wants to work in the psychology field with only a BA is not going to make much money. But a psychology major who parlays that into market research or educational research can stand to make more. And what if that psychology major goes on to get an MBA? You can’t go just by averages in majors; you have to look at what your goals are. The other thing is that average salary and employment rates can’t be the determining factor in your major - you need to like what you are studying, too. Otherwise it won’t matter, because you will fail.</p>
<p>If you want a major that easily leads into high pay with little thought about what kinds of careers you will do next, major in engineering, or nursing, or accounting. However, most other job fields don’t lead that neatly into a job. You do internships, you volunteer, you find out what you like and start to make decisions.</p>
<p>Successful people have all kinds of majors. You’ve asked this question in several different formats about a lot of different majors in differenf forums. Only YOU can decide what you want to major in. There’s no magic major that’s a formula for success and a high salary. A philosophy major with good business sense could start a multimillion-dollar corporation; an accounting major who doesn’t want to do summer internships could be unable to find work after college.</p>