<p>If i don't know what I want to major in the future, </p>
<p>should i go to a top liberal arts school</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>a top university with a lot of majors?</p>
<p>..............</p>
<p>you answered your own question didn't you</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>yea, but liberal arts provides an overall good education. So would that be better?</p>
<p>Well it depends how far you've got your major narrowed down to. If you might go into chemical engineering or philosophy for example, then picking a LAC that's good in both would be pretty hard.</p>
<p>Nobody says top universities don't give an overall good education. Besides, most top universities provide liberal arts education anyhow.</p>
<p>If you don't know what you're going to do, the school with more choices/opportunities is easily more advantageous.</p>
<p>I was interested in criminal justice but i'm not really sure</p>
<p>more importantly: is there a general core course that you esp. like, even if you dont know a major (e.g. science) and then pick a school that is good in that field
if not, I'd say a LAC, because you get a strong humanities core and get to take everything</p>
<p>Generally, LAC.
If you don't know what you want, choosing from 250 majors will not be easier than choosing from 40. I think the availability of a large number of majors matters more if you know you are interested in something very specific-- e.g. neruo-biology, not just biology.
Criminal justice is fairly specific. Since you're interested in criminal justice (what does one do with a criminal justice degree), find schools that offer a program, then read course descriptions. If you're still interested but uncertain that you want to be that narrow, look at schools with related programs or similar course offerings but maybe under a different heading ( constitutional law?, sociology?).</p>
<p>LACs still offer a lot of majors. Your designation of contrasting them with "top universities" isn't really accurate. Places like Dartmouth, Harvard, Brown don't offer that many more majors than Williams, Colgate, Middlebury would. I think you mean more large universities where you can pursue very specific majors like mom58 describes. Harvard is as top a university as you can get, but doubt you could major in criminal justice there. Some specific majors like neuroscience are still offered at small to medium sized LACs too though. However, that is kind of general compared to UMichigan where maybe you could major in neurochemistry or neurobiology or neuorphysiology, etc. I personally think that LACs with 50+ majors is enough to figure out what you want to do with needing to get into specific subtleties (a school with 250+ majors) until grad school.</p>
<p>Are all LAC small? or just most of them, which ones are big in the north east</p>
<p>a lac is generally small... around 3000 or less.</p>
<p>When I was choosing schools, I first decided how far away I wanted to go. Then I visted schools in that area that seemed to match my admissions requirement. I remember when I saw Amherst I knew I didn't want to go to a tiny tiny school - so I immediately decided that I didn't want to see any other really tiny schools. Most of hte schools I applied to had between 4000-8000 undergrads, but I eventually went to the largest one, uva with about 13000 undergrads.</p>
<p>If you don't know what you want to major in, don't get caught up in the LAC and university thing. Just go with what you think you'll like. I generally find that a lot of hte difference between the amount of majors has to do with specialized fields. Maybe theres a general biology major at an LAC while there are 7 types of biology majors at say large state university with 500 majors. However, I think unless you're interested in something super specific (which you don't seem to be), either a LAC or a university will have the resources for you.</p>
<p>All depends on which Univ or which LAC</p>