<p>Why are students expected to know what they want to major in and do for the rest of their lives when they enter college? Of course, they say, “you can always change your major,” but the truth is, one change of class and you are off track for graduating on time. It seems that major requirements are laid out so that if you change major, universities can just take more and more of your money. I hope I chose the right major!</p>
<p>Major requirements are laid out so that every person who graduates is competent and knowledgeable in their major. Anything less would be unacceptable. Any college that has a “first year engineering” program or equivalent (not required to choose major until sophomore year) offers a lot of flexibility. My boyfriend switch from the college of science to mechanical engineering to electrical engineering, and he’s still graduating on time.</p>
<p>It’s true, however, most of the time you will stay within the same general area, like business, communications, engineering, etc., and the first two year courses will be the same. Like engineering, taking Calc, physics, chem, or business taking acct, Econ, and such. If you change completely, like business to engineering, yes it would be difficult to graduate in 4 years. </p>