<p>i want to major in either communications or psychology... but i may change majors in the future.</p>
<p>curious, which majors are the most competitive in ucsc?</p>
<p>Art and Psychology are the impacted majors, with the most students. So they could be considered competitive.</p>
<p>In the sciences, Bioengineering/Bioinformatics are the most competitive.
I’m not sure other than that.</p>
<p>I don’t know how competitive they are, but the astrophysics and linguistics programs are among the top in the country</p>
<p>psych is one of the most popular majors on campus - so it’s competitive to get into the classes, but not so much once you’re there.</p>
<p>we’re <em>known</em> for linguistics, astrophysics, and some specific science research (i.e. human genome project, various NASA contracts, etc). there is no communications major.</p>
<p>honestly, college isn’t competitive the way high school was, at least for me. in high school i was always competing against my classmates for a better chance at college admissions/etc. now i’m competing against myself and the goals i’ve set for my own education.</p>
<p>does anyone have an idea on how competitive the health science major is?</p>
<p>Anyone know anything about the business major or how competitive it is at ucsc?</p>
<p>Not sure about business, but UCSC’s global economics program is top notch. Don’t remember exactly where they fall, but I believe it’s somewhere in the top 3.</p>
<p>The ‘business’ program, specifically accounting, is surprisingly good here. UCSC offers enough accounting classes to sit for the CPA exam, which cannot be said about every UC. There are a few all star professors, one in particular, Bob Shepherd, basically single-handedly created the Accounting program here 10 years ago. He single-handedly put UCSC on the map and got all of BIG4 Accounting to recruit here. Fortunately, he teaches 2-3 classes each quarter. Unfortunately, I think he is retiring soon.</p>
<p>I really believe the school is a gem for those interested in pursuing Accounting because it is less competitive and they hire at the same rates (as told by the recruiter) as the mid tier UCs.</p>
<p>Do you think we can take upper division business and accounting classes without being a business major or taking the lower division core classes for business?</p>
<p>UCSC doesn’t actually offer “business” courses or does it have a business major. If you are interested in taking upper division accounting courses (as close to business that UCSC has), then you need to take the required lower division courses for the class.</p>
<p>If the upper-div course is just pure accounting, then the required courses are usually Econ 10A/B (financial and managerial accounting). If the course is more towards econ or finance, then the required courses are usually Econ 10A/B and Econ 100A and sometimes Econ 113. Most upper division courses require Econ 100A/113, but you can sometimes find a few that don’t.</p>