Uncommon Majors

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Re: Operations Research, is that what someone who wants to get into logistics would major in? I know that the military and WalMart, among others, have significant logistics needs.

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it's one of the options ... if you're interested in quantitative modeling within the logistics world it is a great choice. Operations management is another excellent choice ... which has more of a general management of operations focus. A bunch of schools have specific logistics/supply chain managment majors ... Ohio State, Michigan State, Georgia Tech are just a few.</p>

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<p>this may not sound odd to us parents but Museum Studies/Management might be something a HS student hasn't heard of and could be heaven for an arts oriented/communit oriented student.</p>

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<p>Forgot the best of all:</p>

<p>From the Carnegie Mellon website:

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Applicants may major in:</p>

<pre><code>* Bagpipe

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<p>My older D has a major in Magazines.</p>

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<p>I wonder how many high school students would be aware of Occupational Therapy, or Orthotics and Prosthetics, in both of which you can get BS degrees.</p>

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<p>Geriatric Studies (Ithaca College) -- I guess that's "how to care for and
profit from the baby boomers in our twilight years"</p>

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<p>When I was on vacation in Wyoming recently, the young lady leading my family's trail ride was headed to college to major in Rodeo. (a community college, I believe)</p>

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<p>Geriatric Studies? I want to know those kids: they'll be deciding our nursing home benefits. Can I bake them cookies now?</p>

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<p>Seed studies,
Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication
Rural Sociology
Professional Agriculture ( Grad program, but if ypu were to actually farm, you'd get a two year degree tops)
Plant Breeding
Agricultural Meteorology</p>

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<p>newmassdad - As incongruous as it may seem, the performing arts departments at Carnegie Mellon are essentially a conservatory located on the grounds of a university. Virtually no academic subjects outside the art, but performance instruction at the very highest national level.</p>

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<p>Hey, don't mock golf course management JHS. If you golf, you will appreciate a well managed and maintained club. Landscape management is an art, and I don't care if the guy doing it knows advanced calculus or not. :) I know somebody doing this and running his own business at the same time. There is a need for this job and I'm sure he will do very well.
<a href="http://www.ccac.edu/default.aspx?id=138605%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ccac.edu/default.aspx?id=138605&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Concrete Industry Management Program at Middle Tennessee</p>

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<p>Viticulture and enology (the study of winemaking)
Psychobiology</p>

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<p>golf course management and turf science are two different areas.They are well respected majors at Arizona State U where the golf major is a sanctioned PGA program and you need a certain handicap to enroll( My friends S didnt make the cutoff).
Ithaca is well known for its Geriatric studies (in those professional circles) and hace a hand in running a nursing home/assisted living adjacent to campus.</p>

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<p>from inside higher education:
<a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/17/programs%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/17/programs&lt;/a>
MOTORSPORT MANAGEMENT (academic program will be linked to internships in the NASCAR industry)
Leadership for family ministry and faith development (master's degree)</p>

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<p>wine viticulture
soil science
food science</p>

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