<p>I am not really sure where to ask this question, so here it is.</p>
<p>My D is a student at Brown, and Brown has no academic minors. They allow students to double major (called concentrate), but no minors. </p>
<p>As far as anyone out there knows, are there any other colleges/universities that don't have academic minors?</p>
<p>Yale, although they have been talking about implementing them.</p>
<p>Many colleges-- including many of the highest-ranked colleges – have no official minors (or only have minors in subjects in which no undergraduate major is offered). This does not mean that a student with a secondary interest in a field outside his or her major cannot put together a program equivalent to a minor. Lots of students do just that.</p>
<p>Harvard has started discouraging double majors and instituting minors instead. Carnegie Mellon’s computer science department requires minors. I don’t think it much matters. If your school doesn’t have minors, but you wish they did, you can put something on your resume to that affect. ie. “Brown U. does not allow minors, however I took x number of courses in x department.”</p>
<p>Carleton doesn’t have minors either. You can double major, or you can have a major and a concentration. The concentrations are typically interdisciplinary.</p>
<p>I’m not sure that saying you have a minor carries any greater cachet than claiming that you majored in X and took an additional concentration of coursework in Y.</p>
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<p>I don’t recall the exact wording on my resume as a recent college grad but it may have been something to the effect:</p>
<p>BA in Child Study
Significant coursework in fine arts. </p>
<p>I did not have a minor.</p>
<p>I took this to mean schools that wouldn’t accept anyone under 18…</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>UW-Madison hasn’t had minors for a long time- more than the eons ago when I was there. The idea is to spend more time on a major, or have more than one major. It does accept minors, though- son was 16- and we had no more control/info than if he had been 18. Don’t worry about no academic minors at Brown- probably the norm at many top schools.</p>
<p>Claremont-McKenna has no minors</p>