<p>How difficult is it to double major and have a minor? Is it possible to graduate in 4 years, or will I need to take on a 5th year?</p>
<p>Anyone can do it, but do you seriously want to ruin your college life :)</p>
<p>Also it is very possible to finish it in 4 years but probably might be easier if you did it in 5. Since you really do want to learn stuff not just try to get the degree.</p>
<p>My friend finished double major in 3 years, but he took summer school every summer.</p>
<p>Well, which majors? Some are majors are less demanding in terms of course requirements - e.g. political science, English, and history have relatively few requirements. There are quite a few political science/history double majors. </p>
<p>Yeah, you can do it in four years - depending on the majors and how many summer sessions you want to take to offset the burden of ~4 classes per quarter. </p>
<p>Most importantly though - why do you want to double major? Which minor?</p>
<p>yea, two majors in a similar field will be easier to finish than two in completely different ones.</p>
<p>yay for overachievers!</p>
<p>I'm thinking of double majoring in English and Chinese or English and History, and minoring in Education. I'm hoping to maybe teach overseas.</p>
<p>God you have so much time to figure this out !</p>
<p>xbankx, are you even in college yet? What basis do you have in saying "Anyone can do it, but do you seriously want to ruin your college life"? I don't mean to be pessimistic, but I just hate it when people give ******** advice that they pull from their ass. I'd like to see someone double major in comp sci engineering AND MIMG, and finish in 4 years WITH summer school, not to even mention the minor.</p>
<p>IMO, no advice is better than bad advice.</p>
<p>As everyone else have said in, it really depends on the majors/minors. glass, I think your choice of majors/minor is very possible with a bit of planning and effort. eng/chinese will help if you want to teach overseas in china, LOL. plus china is becoming more and more powerful economically and what not. There will be a lot of good opportunities out there for you with that combo, IMO.</p>
<p>formula for determining feasibility:</p>
<ol>
<li>look up required classes for each of the majors and minors in question</li>
<li>add the total number of classes to 10 to factor in GEs and electives (10 is an approximate number, as there will be overlap)</li>
<li>divide the number of classes by 12, for the number of quarters you have in four years. if the result is between 3 and 4, you're fine. if it's greater than 4, count on adding summer sessions. if it's greater than 5, you have problems...</li>
</ol>
<p>ahh, wow thanks everyone for the advice! :D I was just wondering if I needed to take summer sessions in order to graduate on time or to have some fun studying abroad.</p>
<p>Study abroad, when you go through the right program and plan carefully, should not set you back at UCLA - you can often get all credits abroad to transfer to UCLA.</p>