what major to go for?

<p>Hi, new member here. I have a dilemma and I'm hoping someone can give me some advice. </p>

<p>I want to be a college professor, just totally fell in love with the idea when I started visiting schools. I've started researching it as a career and know I'll need to get my PhD. But of course I have to start in undergrad. Problem is, I am interested in several majors and when researching masters and PhD programs, I saw that most of them required a bachelors in the same major. The ones I'm interested in are American history (especially colonial history), cultural anthropology, sociology (either race relations or generational studies), English lit and French. I am a total Francophile and want to study and maybe live in France, and would also really be interested in combining cultural anthropology with a French major. </p>

<p>Those aren't mutually exclusive, but I'm wondering at what point in college do I really need to decide which one to focus on, and how do I really find schools that are really good in more than one of those areas? I want to avoid having to transfer schools if possible. There are tons of schools with all of those as majors, and I know that the College of William & Mary is supposed to be very strong in colonial American history (naturally!), but I haven't found rankings on schools for majors that aren't business, education, etc. Where can I dig deep for that kind of info? If I use the standard college search engines just looking at those majors, I get a TON of results.</p>

<p>btw if anyone personally knows of strong schools in those areas, I would love to know. I am not decided on geographic area so much yet, although I'd probably prefer East or West coast rather than middle America. I'm more a city/suburban person than rural for sure.</p>

<p>THANK YOU to anyone who can help!!!!</p>

<p>Anyone? Please help! Where can I find info on the best schools for various majors?</p>

<p>I guess I should have titled my thread better.</p>

<p>I wouldn't fret about picking a major(s) yet, nor would I try to specialize too soon. Picking colleges with strong programs in history, anthropology and/or sociology, and French isn't <em>too</em> difficult. Rather than finding colleges with your majors, however, you should decide the traits you want in a college (size, location, social scene, etc.) and then evaluate their programs. As a basic starting point, you may want to try the Fiske Guide, Colleges That Change Lives, and Rugg's Recommendations. You can also consider the NRC rankings, but they should NOT be taken very seriously on the undergraduate level.
<a href="http://www.stat.tamu.edu/%7Ejnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Thanks for the link! I'm not concerned about rankings as in "I have to go to a top 10 school" but I'd like to know which schools have strong programs in those areas, because it feels like finding a needle in a haystack. I haven't really picked a region yet and would be happy at either a large school or a smaller one, so I get 100+ results anytime I search. But I will check out those books too.</p>

<p>Thanks again!!</p>