Survey results: What this year's freshmen expect to major in

<p>Business 17.3%
Professional 14.6%
Arts and humanities 12.8%
Social sciences 10.7%
Education 10%
Engineering 8.4%
Biological Sciences 7.6%
Physical sciences 3.1%
Technical 1.2%
Other 6.8%
Undecided 7.3%</p>

<p>"Professional" includes architecture, family and consumer sciences, health technology, nursing, medicine, dentistry, vet, pharmacy, therapy.</p>

<p>"Technical" includes building trades, data processing/programming, drafting, electronics, mechanics.</p>

<p>"Other" includes agriculture, communications, comp sci, forestry, kinesiology, law enforcement, military science.</p>

<p>The most frequent specific majors named:
psychology 4.6%
biology 4.5%
elementary ed 4.4%
medicine/dentist/vet 4.1%
nursing 4.0%
business admin 4.0%
management 3.9%
political science 3.5%
marketing 2.9%
art 2.6%
accounting 2.6%
secondary ed 2.5%
therapy 2.2%
mechanical eng 2.2%
communications 2.0%</p>

<p>The most lopsided regarding gender (male to female):
Engineering 15.6% vs 2.6%
Business 22.7% vs 13.1%
Professional 9.3% vs 18.9% (mostly due to nursing)
Education 5.8% vs 13.0%</p>

<p>source: UCLA national CIRP survey of 263,000 freshmen</p>

<p>iiintersting.. naturally, i plan to major in something that only has 3.1% of national interest.. why am i not surprised?</p>

<p>Heh, I will be majoring in computer science next year...and I'm a girl too!</p>