Need advice on accompanying minor

Dunboyne
Fri, 15 May 2015 14:15:50 +0000

Math/stats is not a waste of time for improving employability. Choosing between them, for a minor, is probably irrelevant for job prospects, but stats might be more useful to you than math or applied math. If your goal is to improve your job prospects significantly, then major in statistics (BS from arts and sciences, not business stats). You’ll become more employable in a variety of other fields, along with keeping career prospects in the sports industry where stats (“analytics”) are becoming more and more important. It will also add quantitative rigor to your program and put you in better shape for a higher LSAT score.

You’re right about the Sports and Media Studies major if you don’t end up in sports. You’re getting largely the same knowledge as in your Management major, with a handful of extra courses in sport admin/media. You could learn 90% of what you’d learn in the sports major by just buying/reading the texts. Could you learn stats that way? If you’re going to pay good money for instruction, pay for something that you can’t learn on your own.

You might not be able to add another major at this point in your program, though, in which case I’d go with the stats minor (arts and sciences). If, by adding a stats minor, you’re faced with doing another semester to finish your degree, that’s even more reason to question the practicality of the sports major. There is added cost and time that could be better spent with intern or work experience.