<p>My title should have been "list of most prestigious majors at U-M"
Could you make a list of most prestigious majors at U-M? (starting from the most prestigious to least prestigious)</p>
<p>My rough guess:</p>
<p>Business
CS
EE
ME
other Engineerings
Music Performance
Economics
Statistics</p>
<p>Nursing (supposedly #4 in the US)</p>
<p>Wow, CS is #2? o_O</p>
<p>Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, History, Spanish, Political Science, etc</p>
<p>this list doesnt make any sense</p>
<p>The concept of this list doesn’t make sense either. Perhaps schools within the university (for instance Ross, Engineering, etc.) have prestige, but the majors themselves?</p>
<p>^ Yeah, why not? US News does a kinda similar ranking for different engineering majors.</p>
<p>Rankings does not equal prestige. Infact, that’s the point of having rankings. If you ask someone if they’d be more impressed by a ChemE (Michigan’s lowest ranked engineering discipline) or an IOE or MechE (Michigan’s highest ranked engineering disciplines) they’d have no idea. If you asked people which engineering school they thought was better, Harvard or Michigan, most would say Harvard, which is ranked WAY below Michigan and all the top engineering schools.</p>
<p>Which majors do you think is the best and why?</p>
<p>Business and anything Engineering, and because they pay the most… That still doesn’t mean prestige.</p>
<p>^^ I find it hard to believe that the average (educated) person would think engineering is better at Harvard than Michigan.</p>
<p>i would say prestige at the university among students is based on the perceived difficulty level of gaining acceptance, and combined with the post-graduation job prospects.</p>
<p>It’s not really by major, but by school for the most part.</p>
<ol>
<li>Business</li>
<li>Engineering/Music</li>
<li>LSA-hard majors</li>
<li>LSA -easy majors</li>
<li>Kinesiology</li>
</ol>
<p>I knew Michigan Music was prestigious. What are their job prospects like?</p>
<p>"I knew Michigan Music was prestigious. What are their job prospects like? "
like an Asian studies major with bad gpa without facebook…</p>
<p>and it’s probably true… unless you stand out, it’s hard to have a great career in performing arts</p>
<p>Oh so Music school is just prestigious because of the difficulty not their job prospects?</p>
<p>it’s the nature of the industry</p>
<p>I think it would be fair to say that U of Mich Music grads are possibly COMPARATIVELY better equipped for an industry or performing career - meaning compared to other BMus and BFA candidates from other programs which might not be as strong. Historically, University of Michigan music school has ranked among the top 5 -10 in the nation, and for students wanting a highly specialized degree, it’s size offers a nice range of opportunities difficult to find elsewhere except at a handful of music schools (eg. Jacobs, Northwestern, NEC, Oberlin, etc.). The most “prestigious” aspect is actually the faculty. In music, it is particularly germane to study with a leader in your instrument/field of study. Those abound at U of Mich.</p>