<p>^bump10cha</p>
<p>Statistics for sure (relative to other elite colleges). I stat degree is a surefire way to get a finance job, which means it is very popular choice for the quantitatively inclined. Often people get it is a second major along with either economics or math. Every year there are some who pull off the “Holy Trinity” - math + stat + econ. </p>
<p>While there are some Geographic Information Systems courses and supporting classes of interest in other departments (such as spatial demographics), in general, geography is kind of a dead subject at nearly every elite college (much like Latin or Archeology). To the extent that geography can be studied anymore, it is often done by GIS practitioners in the context of a related doctoral program (say, studying the diffusion of disease epidemics via a biostat department, or migratory patterns of labor through a sociology program).</p>
<p>uchicagoalum is spot on about statistics. It’s a reasonably popular freestanding major, and is often combined with math, econ or both.</p>
<p>As for geography, it’s not dead! We’re one of the last colleges with a geography major (rather, geographical studies). There are a lot of cool courses in the department (though many/most are crosslisted). You can check out courses in the catalog (<a href=“https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf/GEOG.pdf[/url]”>https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf/GEOG.pdf</a>). It’s definitely not ‘popular’, though. It’s very small; there are only two dedicated geography faculty! But yeah. I’ve considered geography. Just because it’d be really awesome to say “yeah, I’m a geography major”. Haha. But yes. It’s a thing.</p>
<p>“Like Latin or Archaeology”? Was that a joke? Uchicagoalum must have some sense how un-dead Latin and Archaeology both are at the University of Chicago, which ranks very highly in both fields. The course catalog lists over 20 Latin courses (not all of which are offered every year, though), in addition to numerous courses dealing with Roman civilization and related topics. And the Anthropology course list is shot through with sophisticated Archaeology courses. At the graduate level, people come from all over the world to study Latin and Archaeology (sometimes both) at Chicago.</p>
<p>True, Chicago keeps these fields alive, but many top schools do not. They have morphed into something else.</p>