<p>What are good marketable majors that when you graduate you will get a good paying job. 50k+ a year and the job placement rate is high?</p>
<p>Electrical Engineering</p>
<p>Engineering, computer science, accounting (at a good school).</p>
<p>The first two are very tough, the latter can be tough but mainly boring (in school), and you’ll kill yourself by age 40 if you don’t enjoy the work and only did it to see a big paycheck.</p>
<p>it depends… what are you interested in?</p>
<p>I’m interested in computer science and math. Thinking of double majoring but computer science isnt easy. I got a lot to learn since I bet everyone in the class is alreeady a head of me. </p>
<p>And what is so hard about accounting?</p>
<p>Computer Game Science! C: Tha’s my major, and it leads to a great career in my opinion.</p>
<p>And don’t worry about not knowing anything about computer science. I know a Computer Science Engineering major, and he’s still in the beginner/intro classes for ICS. It helps to know a little, but you definitely don’t need to know anything to be a CS major.</p>
<p>My top choices of flexible majors (in no particular order):
- Computer science and/or information science
- Engineering/physics
- Math
- Economics</p>
<p>All of the above majors will qualify you to work in a variety of firms/settings.</p>
<p>math? umadbro?</p>
<p>FYI people, engineering is not a major</p>
<p>Well, how else would you summarize the various engineering degrees? Engineering seems fair. And math is actually a highly versatile major. You can get jobs in finance, teaching, with biotech companies doing statistics, etc.</p>
<p>Astrology or maybe paranormal studies.</p>
<p>Theater for sure.</p>
<p>“And what is so hard about accounting?”</p>
<p>Some people are really good at it, and others are really terrible. There’s no real explanation. It just clicks for some of us. In my accounting class, I’d always get As and so would half the class; the other half got Ds and Fs. There’s not much middle-ground. It helps to take accounting in high school if offered…</p>
<p>So, what should you major in?</p>
<p>What you enjoy. What offers the best classes. When you worry about job placement and salaries and things, yeah, you have to be realistic, but it will make you miserable if that’s all you care about. Trust me. I majored in accounting because of that; guess what? I quit on it really early in my misery and with my awful schedule. I’m now doing history/secondary education.</p>
<p>Don’t discount the majors everyone thinks are “useless,” by the way. Some degrees (like business) will constrict you to something, and then you’ll find no one is hiring in that field from a glut of graduates. Flexible degrees like psychology or philosophy may not correlate to a career, but if you want the most successful students at graduate schools who go into fields such as law, well, there you go. So many majors in those types of subjects end up very successful in many fields because their courses taught them valuable critical thinking, but also gave them the flexibility to pursue a number of careers.</p>
<p>Obviously, if you have an interest in something like computer science, go for it! If it doesn’t work out, that’s okay…</p>
<p>So many people get caught up in knowing what their career and income will be before they go to college. In reality, something like 50% of us switch majors, and 10% of switch schools. Do what interests you, and take courses you’d never think you’d take just to get a feel. You never know what you might find. I know it all sounds clich</p>
<p>Numero Uno: Chemical Engineering</p>
<p>The number one career is probably Nursing, or health science related fields. You can go anywhere, have a masters paid for (physicians assistant/nurse. pract.) or specialize. Also, pharmacy IF you can make it through the program. Huge wash out rate with organic chem.</p>
<p>Yeah, accounting is just tough for some people and it clicks for others. But if it was easy peasy then you wouldn’t be getting 50-60K job offers right out of college ;)</p>
<p>I wouldnt do accounting for the same reason I wouldn’t become an actuary. Sure, numbers are awesome and I’m good with them, but a career behind a desk? No thanks.</p>
<p>People are just going to tell u what they think is best. It’ll just be there opinion.</p>
<p>That being said, engineering. Engineering all the way. Within engineering I say Mech E, Chem E, EE, CS or CE. NE if ur feeling ballsy (I left after the whole Japan thing). </p>
<p>And they’ll teach u programming from the ground up, so don’t worry about that.</p>
<p>Economics or Supply Chain Management. Most flexible majors (can go into business, consulting, government, specialized fields i.e. transportation, environment, health etc.). Computer science, any engineering degree or math are also super useful, but you pay for it in blood, sweat and tears during undergrad (way more studying than it’s worth, at least to me!).</p>
<p>This is a stupid question and people are giving you stupid answers. Yes, electrical engineering is a useful major, but only if you want to be an electrical engineer. If you want to become an accountant for example, an electrical engineering degree is as useless as any other. If you’re really so worried about getting a nice job, you might want to first, pick a job you’d like, and then figure out a major that would work well with that.</p>
<p>^^ oh yeah.</p>
<p>These majors are going to be tougher.</p>
<p>If you don’t care about ur career and want an easier time on college, you should do something else.</p>
<p>If you want easy money, CS is just about the best there is, especially if you go to a great school and are bright. The top of the class gets jobs at Microsoft, Google, Facebook starting salary of $90k. You have to enjoy it though, and it’s hard to know until you’ve tried programming.</p>