<p>But wutang, a GOOD music production program would spend much more time in “lab” settings than sitting in classrooms. So it’s not the major itself, but the way it’s often taught.</p>
<p>Wu, I thought you wanted to go into iBanking?</p>
<p>Business majors are only overrated if you don’t work hard as hell. There are definitely a lot of business majors that will probably not have a job at graduation because of their mediocre academic records. If you’re not one of the best, good luck. </p>
<p>Seriously, if you’re planning to graduate with 3.0 in a business major, you should reconsider your field of choice.</p>
<p>I think this is from the perspective of the average student. Of course top business students are not overrated, but most people are not top students.</p>
<p>I would hardly consider engineering to be overrated, but it’s not exactly underrated either. I’m hesistant to say whether any particular major is over/underrated, though, because it really varies from school to school. Government, for example, is a strong program here, but it was definitely a fluff major at another school I looked at.</p>
<p>I think engineering is underrated not just because it’s more work than your average UG degree, but because it seems like a lot of people are going into it for the 50-60k starting salary. In reality, engineering jobs are being outsourced like crazy, and from what I’ve heard, there isn’t a ton of career mobility…meaning, a lot of people tend to hit that wall early and don’t make much more than what they start off with.</p>
<p>Underrated - music</p>
<p>Underrated- most humanities and social science majors. I know I do a TON more work than most of my friends who are pre-med (which here is normally bio or chem majors). Yeah, they have lab reports, but I have had 4 classes that each require 4 papers that are 10-15 pages in length, and in 2 of them there is an extra 20 page paper in lieu of a final all in one semester. </p>
<p>Also, research in my field involves going out into the field (which generally is a 3rd world country for my area specifically), speaking another language, and dealing with people from a totally different world than your own which is a totally different experience than going into a lab. Not to say that one is harder or better than the other, but if you don’t end up being a scientist or doctor, which one is going to be more important?</p>
<p>i think that the hate directed agains the business majors more has to do with the culture associated with people majoring in the field rather than the major itself…as long as youre not coming from a BS school, a business major can be a very flexible major to have after graduation. despite this, graduate programs for this pay off much more after doing undergrad in something else</p>
<p>Overrated: engineering.
Underrated: physics.</p>
<p>Overrated: business/marketing/finance.
Underrated: economics/econometrics/math.</p>
<p>Overrated: political science.
Underrated: philosophy.</p>
<p>Overrated: law (and its even more laughable relative, pre-law).
Underrated: classics.</p>
<p>^^^Because outside of a few of the top schools, you can really do a ton with a classics major, right?</p>
<p>^ actually you can. if you want to go to law school, classics is probably the best major you could have - right up there with math and philosophy</p>
<p>You can go to law school with pretty much any major…</p>
<p>You could go to law school with pretty much any major, but some majors prepare you better for the LSAT and the type of teaching used in law schools.</p>
<p>But you can prepare for the LSATs otherwise.</p>
<p>I want to go to law school with a fashion merchandising major, like Elle Woods! Speaking of which, I think it’s pretty underrated. I get snorts from my friends who seem to think we spend all our class time reading Vogue, but if the program is interdisciplinary like it is at my school you end up studying history, marketing, sociology, business and art all at once.</p>
<p>KindlyCuddly, I understand what you mean. I was originally fashion merchandising and people were always like, oh what a blow-off major! But it’s really not! I had to take Chemistry and Pre-Calculus Alg/Trig for it, and people were always like “***? why??” And I was always in my textile labs doing stuff for class and people never understood the work it took. </p>
<p>(have switched majors now, but just because I decided it wasn’t for me, not cause of what other people think).</p>
<p>this thread seems to be completely subjective…it all depends on what each person wants to get out of the major. whether it be raw knowledge, money, or happiness everyone will have a different perspective.</p>
<p>Criminal Justice is underrated.</p>
<p>Boston, you’re missing the point. Those majors help the brain to reason and basically “exercise the mind”. The critical thinking and reasoning skills that people tend to learn in those majors are invaluable in law school. Law schools realize that kids who majored in those subjects (classics, philo) have a legitimate philosophical interest in law and enjoy learning for learning’s sake, which probably does help in admissions.</p>