What range of majors are possible?
- Humanities?
- Social sciences?
- Social science based pre-professional majors (business, social work, public health, etc.)?
- Sciences?
- Engineering?
- Nursing or other health professions?
- Architecture?
For an undecided student, an ideal college will have:
- Good programs in all of the possible majors.
- Lack of high barriers to entry to any of the possible majors. High barriers to entry would be things like changing to that major requiring a competitive admission process with a 3.75 college GPA minimum.
But also remember that some majors, particularly sciences, engineering, and pre-professional majors, have longer sequences of prerequisite courses, so that a student considering them needs to start on the prerequisites early to avoid being “behind” on them for as long as they want to keep open the option for those majors.