<p>I was recently accepted to the CLA (which was my first choice), and I intend to peruse a major within that college, but I was wondering how easy it is to change to a major either within CLA or outside of it. Thanks!</p>
<p>@Zelagbnark…Changing majors within a particular college is usually relatively easy. Our D1 (senior at UMinn in CBS) started off as a Biochemistry major with plans to fulfill the pre-pharmacy requirements and apply to Pharmacy school. After taking a genomics class freshman year she decided to pursue something along those lines and changed her major to Biology until firming up her career goals. She decided to pursue Genetic Counseling as her career and changed her major to Genetics with a minor in Psychology. The key is trying to make the decisions/changes early enough to hopefully avoid taking credits which will not apply towards your new major and increasing the time required to attain your degree.</p>
<p>If you look to change colleges within UMinn, you need to make sure you meet all the transfer requirements for whichever new college you hope to transfer into. It’s still doable, but probably not as easy as changing your major within CLA would be. Depending on what your intended major might be, there are some which offer a BA degree through CLA as an option in addition to the BS degree through a different college. Chemistry and Computer Science are two that come to mind, and I’m sure there are others.</p>
<p>@Wolverine86, thanks for the reply! Do you know the specifics of what is involved in transferring to another college? Also, are the CLA equivalents to majors in other colleges generally worse? Like, if I decided to switch to the CLA physics major, would I be putting myself at a disadvantage compared to majoring in physics through CSE?</p>
<p>@Zelagbnark…Here is a link to the transfer requirements. If you scroll down the page you’ll see the individual colleges listed with a link for their specific requirements.</p>
<p>As far as the degrees go, if it’s a “science based” or “technical” degree my guess would be that the BS would carry a little more weight than the BA, but it depends on what classes you take. You could probably print off the degree requirements for the BS versus the BA in a given major and see how they match up. Check the course catalog for the different colleges and see what they offer for elective courses as well. If you show a prospective employer that you’ve taken the same courses through CLA that you would’ve taken through CBS or CSE it might not matter to them which college you got your degree from.</p>
<p>Very difficult to transfer into CSE or Carlson. As for physics, it depends on what you want to do. If you want to do actual physics rather than say teaching a BS will go much further.</p>