<p>I read that you can double major at Stanford, but there are like specific requirements?</p>
<p>Can you double major in Economics and Electrical Engineering?</p>
<p>Double majoring at Stanford looks very difficult because you can’t count any course toward two different majors.</p>
<p>But I think there’s an exception for engineering courses, isn’t there?</p>
<p>^Is that true? Gosh I remember hearing somewhere that you can double count some classes. Which makes sense. Like it makes absolutely no sense to have to repeat the math 50 series if someone is interested in double majoring in CS and economics. </p>
<p>It better not be true. If it is, I’m going to complain. I understand that no one should be able to pick up a double major by adding a class or two (which probably occasionally happens with engineering majors). But to have to repeat all 100 or so units?</p>
<p>Anyways double majoring is definitely possible, and I know quite a few. Electrical engineering and economics is probably doable, but it would be pretty hard probably. Like taking a load of classes and not having as much, if any, freedom to take classes in other fields you may be interested in. Most people double major in like two social sciences or a social science and a humanity or something.</p>
<p>Nooooo! I want to dubdub major in IR and English! Seems like that’s going to be really hard…faaaaaaack.</p>
<p>Oh, double majoring is definitely possible - definitely. It just means very careful scheduling. What I meant by double-counting is that let’s say you have to fulfill an area of concentration in one major (5 courses) and a specialty in another (5 more courses). Any single course can’t count for both requirements. </p>
<p>As for majoring in IR and English, IR requires at least 70 units. English requires at least 60 more. Your GERs will take up approximately 40 units. You’ll also need language for IR, which puts you at probably at least 10 credits (I’m assuming you have some language background and want to use that language; if not, it’s 51 credits for four years of most languages). That’s only 180 units, which isn’t bad - certainly doable at only 15 cedits minimum per quarter. Some of the more hefty majors, like HumBio, don’t double as well.</p>
<p>From the quick research I did, English is 60 units. IR is 65 units. That’s 125 units total for your majors. Which is just a few classes more than an engineering major (ME is 108, not sure about the others).</p>
<p>Edit: IR I guess is 70 (?). My number was probably wrong because the IR site is down and I had to use another source. I’m also not sure if the language is already counted in the 65/70 units. But yeah, you do have to take language for IR (according to the website I looked at, you have to take two years?).</p>
<p>Oh, wow! Thanks for the information – both of you! This totally helps.</p>
<p>I got my information from the Bulletin. Go to the Bulletin, then:</p>
<p>Undergraduate Degrees and Programs
Degree Requirements
The Major
Undergraduate Major Unit Requirements</p>
<p>For example, I created a pretty impossible scenario: double major in HumBio and Anthropology with four years of a language. It adds up to some 258 credits. Not happening. But, smaller majors like English double major more readily, as do those that don’t have hefty requirements (IR comes to mind).</p>