<p>If it’s going to take 200+ credit hours to get both degrees, I think that I would consider making one of those majors a minor, or holding off and going to grad school for the second major. Generally, you don’t have to major in the same field in grad school, as long as you satisfy most of the prerequisits for grad school. You can google those types of details.</p>
<p>Masters degrees generally only take 30-40 credit hours, and employers normally would prefer someone with a masters, and having a masters often will bump up your salary. Also, a masters normally only takes a year or two.</p>
<p>If a double major is going to take an extra 80 credit hours, you could actually get a bachelors with a minor plus two masters degrees (one in each field) in the same amount of time.</p>
<p>If you haven’t done this already, you should probably make a chart of all of the curriculum requirements for each major, and line them up side by side, and get an accurate total on the number of overlapping course. It’s possible that you might find that it will take less than 200 credit hours to get both degrees (as scmom was suggesting). I believe that the core requirments for all BA degrees may now be identical, but other bachelors degrees can vary quite a bit. </p>
<p>I just looked it up, [Programs</a> A-Z - Columbia Campus - Acalog ACMS?](<a href=“Columbia Campus - Acalog ACMS™”>http://bulletin.sc.edu/content.php?catoid=36&navoid=4241), and there is a BA option for public health, and anthro is only a BA anyway, so I think that the second major could be done in just an extra year (or a couple of summer schools plus a maymester or two). </p>
<p>The BA’s aren’t going to be quite as impressive as a BS, but with a double major BA that would probably make up the difference. Generally, a BS is considered a “professional degree” that qualifies you for a job in the field immediately after college, while a BA doesn’t always lead directly to a job in your major (obviously there are exceptions), and many BA students have to pursue grad schools to be well qualified.</p>
<p>Also, if you decided to go the BS route with the public health degree, it will take slightly longer to graduate (maybe one more semester), but any second major would be “upgraded” to a BS also, so you would end up with a BS in both Anthro and Public Health.</p>