<p>I’m not very familiar with the US system in general, so I’d like it if people gave some decent advice on how you create your major, but more importantly, how it affects job prospects.</p>
<p>So really, what I want to know is:</p>
<li>Which major/s correspond to what kind of high-end jobs?</li>
<li>Which major/s are considered rigorous and difficult</li>
<li>Any other info would be great too</li>
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<p>I literally have very little idea about it all, so I’m a bit curious seeing as though I’ll be there in a few months.</p>
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<li><p>What’s a high-end job? It doesn’t really matter a great deal what you major in.</p></li>
<li><p>You’re CC; probably the toughest majors in CC would be the hard sciences (physics, chemistry…).</p></li>
<li><p>Don’t worry about majors. You don’t have to pick for 2 years.</p></li>
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<p>Right. A major is like a track, a specialization. Really, you get assigned to a “department” of study, like the English department, the Chemistry department, the Economics department… and those departments have usually one (but sometimes more) majors to offer, with varying sets of courses to take.</p>
<p>You are required, by the end of your sophomore year, to select a major and then fulfill those major requirements (i.e. the set of courses defined as required for that major) to graduate.</p>
<p>Some people double-major, and take the required courses for both majors (typically many of these requirements overlap). Others realize that their initial choice was not a good one for them, and switch majors (although the longer you wait in that choice, the harder it is to fulfill all requirements of your new major by the time you graduate).</p>
<p>Frankly, I wish someone had explained this to me when I was a high schooler too. I went to a pretty high-end public school, but nobody ever bothered to mention what a “Bachelors” or a “Masters” was. It just never gets explained, how the degree system works, what precedes or follows what, what you earn at what type of school, etc. The same is true for majors.</p>