Help Choosing a Major at Alabama

SEA_tide
Sun, 20 Apr 2014 06:33:19 +0000

I would typically recommend that students in your situation initially declare an engineering major, computer science being an engineering major, so they’d get an extra $2500 per year in scholarship money which is not available if they switch into engineering after starting at UA. Mathematics is relatively easy to add as a second major or minor.

You can major in anything and go to medical school as long as you complete all premed requirements with a high GPA, do well on the MCAT, and have an otherwise strong application. For example, there are multiple premeds at UA who are business majors because they want to have the educational background to run their own practice.

If you’re looking at the STEM to MBA program, I’d highly suggest considering the Business Analytics track as it’s a great career path for those with strong quantitative and computer skills. Many of the professors teaching the courses have degrees in engineering.