<p>What do people study at Smith? What are some popular majors?</p>
<p>D says that Government is one of the top 10.
I hear that Art History is very popular.</p>
<p>According to the 2004-2005 Common Data Set (for graduates 2003-2004):</p>
<p>Social Sciences, including history - 29.84%
Languages - 9.62
Area/Ethnic Studies - 8.59
Biology - 6.41
Physical Sciences 4.38
Psychology - 8.33
Engineering/Computer Sciences - 4.49
English - 6.15
Visual and Performing Arts - 10.26
Architecture - 1.92
Math - 2.05</p>
<p>That's a weird sieve on their part: some of those are individual majors, some are groups of majors...not comparable.</p>
<p>What jobs do they pursue with these majors? I know its only undergrad. but still.</p>
<p>"That's a weird sieve on their part: some of those are individual majors, some are groups of majors...not comparable."</p>
<p>It's just the way the Common Data Sets work.</p>
<p>According to My college book... English, Government and Social Sciences</p>
<p>What jobs do they pursue with these majors? I know its only undergrad. but still.</p>
<p>Which major are you talking about?</p>
<p>Mini, thanks for the explanation but that's still an odd way to do it...it just shifts the location of the origination of the oddity.</p>
<p>Chibifry, there are all sorts of jobs in business and government...what do you have in mind?</p>
<p>It's actually a pretty good system, because it allows for comparisons across campuses. (Are "government" majors the same as "political science" majors? etc., etc.) </p>
<p>Relative to other LACs, there are comparably more language/area studies, biology, government, and art history/performing arts majors. Among the women's colleges, it has the highest percentages in science/engineering.</p>
<p>Any of the aforementioned majors.. I mean these majors that Smith offers are pretty vague. History? English?</p>
<p>I don't understand. "History" and "English" are pretty standard majors. Students may specialize in one period or another but that doesn't seem to be your question. </p>
<p>Ummm...are you an International?</p>
<p>I mean to say, what kind of careers do these people usually pursue with majors offered at Smith? For example if there was a history major student, what would she/he or what could she/he pursue as a career?</p>
<p>There are many careers that one could pursue in business or government. I'm not understanding why/what/where you think a History or English degree might be limiting. I've got a B.A. in Political Science and am one of the relatively few who have used it for anything related to politics, having worked on a U.S. Senate staff and on two presidential campaigns. I've also worked in public relations, technical writing, college departmental counseling, industrial management, university administration, real estate, and as a writer. I could have had "careers" in any of those...and those are just person's tip of the iceberg.</p>
<p>There are relatively few career tracks that are open to only people with science/engineering, medical, legal, or specialized business degrees. </p>
<p>And many of those require a professional or graduate degree anyway...for which a History or English degree is preparation that's as adequate as anything else. Really.</p>
<p>Smith has a lot of majors.</p>
<p>Yes, but the Q was what are the popular majors and what do people do with them? The latter is not always obvious for the Social Sciences, English, the Arts, etc.</p>
<p>If you can get your hands on a course catalogue (the book ones) it's listed in there. But combining the class of 2005 and 2006, which is how they calculate it, the top were government, psych, art (studio, history, and architecture), english, econ, and bio. Probably the fastest growing majors are engineering and econ.</p>
<p>BJm8, your daughter may be interested in this certificate program.</p>
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<p>Thanks RLT...I'll send it along.</p>