Need help deciding on a major!

PhantomVirgo
Sat, 19 Oct 2013 17:46:24 +0000

If you mean “practical” as in “sets you up for certain jobs right out of college”, that would be majors like computer science and the engineering disciplines. Though I’ll just come out and say, one of my majors is computer science and I would discourage going into it if you’re not genuinely interested in it. Engineering students have said the same thing. It may sound pretty obvious (hard major overall + no interest = bad time), but there’s so many people that try to do that anyway because of how “practical” the majors are.

Really though, most people don’t end up getting jobs within their major unless they’re in one of those more vocational majors. None are really more practical than any other unless you’re trying to get into a specific field that requires you to study a certain subject. To that end, as I always say: Go with what you’re interested in. If you happen to be interested in a “practical”/in-demand major, more power to you.



I’ve also noticed that UC’s don’t really have notable business programs (some don’t even have business majors available at all, such as UC Davis).



You’re right, our closest is managerial economics. Not the exact same thing, but if you are looking at applying here keep that in mind. We also don’t have a journalism major, but do have a professional writing minor…of which I know there’s a petition to make it a major going around, no idea when and if that’d actually happen though. Again, just something to keep in mind if you intend to apply here.